tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post8946228414556344108..comments2024-03-19T07:36:33.915-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: AloneDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-52400857846220192042008-05-07T15:45:00.000-04:002008-05-07T15:45:00.000-04:00You are defined only by what you allow your self t...You are defined only by what you allow your self to believe about how others percieve you. Misconceptions of others and what they believe to be true can cause a body much anguish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-30615499951084819602008-05-06T17:55:00.000-04:002008-05-06T17:55:00.000-04:00I feel alone most of the time. Sadly, even seeing ...I feel alone most of the time. Sadly, even seeing another autistic person doesn't affect that much, because either they seem normal or they are disabled enough to be treated as a 'different type' than me, and there's that line between us of perceptions.Ettinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08230821659466586897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-71639145319386730602008-05-06T11:19:00.000-04:002008-05-06T11:19:00.000-04:00http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24454529/"The suggeste...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24454529/<BR/><BR/>"The suggested list was compiled by a task force whose members come from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military and government agencies. They include the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services.......<BR/><BR/>Their recommendations appear in a report appearing Monday in the May edition of Chest, the medical journal of the American College of Chest Physicians.....<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Those out of luck are the people at high risk of death and a slim chance of long-term survival. But the recommendations get much more specific, and include:<BR/><BR/>People older than 85<BR/>Those with severe trauma, which could include critical injuries from car crashes and shootings.<BR/>Severely burned patients older than 60.<BR/>Those with severe mental impairment, which could include advanced Alzheimer's disease.<BR/>Those with a severe chronic disease, such as advanced heart failure, lung disease or poorly controlled diabetes...."<BR/><BR/> What is severe mental impairment?<BR/> Severe chronic disease?<BR/><BR/>It is not hard to imagine some doctor who believes that you should have been aborted, or that your life is a misery, or that you are "better off dead" to decide that you fit into one of these groupsrickismomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07817042750959998664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-48243807834971876302008-05-06T10:14:00.000-04:002008-05-06T10:14:00.000-04:00rickismom,Where did you read or hear of this? Appa...rickismom,<BR/><BR/>Where did you read or hear of this? Apparently, I'm just supposed to shut up and die if a pandemic hits because I have a disability that won't go away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-37931272041554079512008-05-06T02:36:00.000-04:002008-05-06T02:36:00.000-04:00I assume you have seen America's new guidelines wh...I assume you have seen America's new guidelines who NOT to treat in a pandemic? (Anyone with low long-term survival chances, chronically ill, and mentally impaired...)rickismomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07817042750959998664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-90395565835464167492008-05-05T20:53:00.000-04:002008-05-05T20:53:00.000-04:00I also went to Iron Man on Saturday (down here in ...I also went to Iron Man on Saturday (down here in PA though) there was a young girl in the audience who also uses a wheelchair, I watched as other people walked by and averted thier eyes as if she were invisble, she was almost completely alone in a theater jampacked full of people! I wish this hadn't been the case, I wish there would have been someone else there, so she didn't feel isolated. On the flip side of that I went to the park yesterday and enjoyed nature at it's best, there were examples of everything that occurs in nature, including people who use wheelchairs fishing, a few young boys with down syndrome playing with other boys, young people, older people, everyone. It was community and nature at it's finest!FABhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04165249238828950005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-85339660659752467952008-05-05T10:33:00.000-04:002008-05-05T10:33:00.000-04:00Very perceptive of Joseph - amazing what young eye...Very perceptive of Joseph - amazing what young eyes can see.linahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00675640977094855867noreply@blogger.com