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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Not necessarily.  Folks learn to adjust to their limits and their 
differences.  I was hit in the eye with a rock when I was about 5.  It 
scratched the cornea and they said first that I would be blind in that eye 
and then later there was a list about as long as my arm of things I wouldn't 
be able to do.

Well, I'm not blind and I have adjusted just fine.  I can even shoot the 
heads of thistles at 100 yards and more without any problem even with the 
resulting stimatizm I have.

That doesn't mean that everyone with a stigmatizm will be able to shoot the 
way I can.  It means that we all adjust, that we're all individuals and that 
all folks who have the same problem don't present with the same conditions 
nor that they will always present with the same conditions.

Of course, it could be that my parents tore the list up and told me "you can 
do anything you damn well please" and then we went on with life as though 
nothing had happened.  Well, except the little incident with the father of 
the kid who threw the rock but, hey, that's another story <g>

Besides, I'd be willing to bet that you didn't treat those kids as some kind 
of DD kid has to ride the "little bus" and who needed special ed and instead 
gave them positive reinforcement of their abilities and gave them confidence 
to be themselves.  And, bingo, stigma gone, self-adjustment occures.

Lynda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Oh, probably not.   Not much anyway.
>
> If it is a visual and neurological problem, it would be consistent would 
> it
> not?  You would not expect to be able to talk the child out of being 
> dyslexic
> even for a moment, would you?  Much as you can't talk a person out of 
> being
> deaf.
>
> And yet, I never found one single instance where that was so.
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