I just got told I can't spell, which is nothing I didn't already know(LOL!) but it reminded me of something that happened a couple weeks back as I was working on an article and came to the word 'dislexic'.
Immediatly I knew I had spelled it incorrectly but could not for the life of me figure out how to spell it properly.
Thats when the light bulb went off, hey we're living in the information age(or whatever the hell you want to call it) right?
A couple clicks of the mouse and I had copied and pasted my misspelled word into that google search engine thingy, it would give me the right spelling.
Well, it worked alright. In fact, this is what it brought up:
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The way people with dyslexia spell "dyslexic". "I kant spel im dislexic". dyslexic dyslexia dislexia spelling grammar by GarnetOakley Jan 8, 2008 email it ...
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dislexic - 16k - |
S***!!
Good thing I don't don't have much belief in silly titles, in fact I don't have much belief in the term ADHD either.
And I have no belief in that Godamn ritalin they use to 'treat' it either!
Do a search on the phrase "what if einstien had been put on ritilan", and start looking out for your kids already!
Jul 20th 19:50
It is not the drugs that are the problem.
It is not the kids that are the problem.
It is not even the fact that dyslexics cannot spell dyslexia.
The problem is that people do not know how to cope with anything outside what they consider to be "the norm".
When I was a small child, because most of my time was spent caring for my parents, I would go WILD when allowed a bit of free time. I was full of fun and exhuberance. I was noisy. I was a bloody nuisance.
But I was looked on kindly and tollerantly by all around me.
Why?
Because many kids my age had polio and were being crippled or killed by that dreadful disease. Salk had not yet got clearance for his vaccine because some kids who had received it in clinical trials went on to contract the disease.
In the immediate post WW2 years, food remained rationed and many children had rickets and were seriously under nourished. We could get a free orange juice concentrate to help but many parents did not eat properly so that their kids could eat reasonably well.
No parent would have accepted any imbecile telling them that their child was hyperactive or had some sort of attention deficit. Nobody even knew that these things existed.
Children were ACTIVE to different degrees.
It wasn't an illness that needed curing - it was a by-product of being a child - AND IT STILL IS!!!!
Too many parents are content to let idiotic, theory generating, wannabe famous morons tell them that it is not THEIR fault Johhny runs around all day or cannot spell.
Let's be honest about things.
Teachers are no longer trained to teach. They are no longer trained in methods of gaining the respect of their pupils. They no longer feel that teaching is a vocation.
Teaching has become a part time job concentrating more on keeping the kids off the streets than on educating them.
Parents are actively discouraged from taking an interest in what their children do when they are at school - indeed, if a parent were to complain that Johnny was not doing very well, they would be accused of pressuring the poor lad and sent for remedial training of their own!
TV stations have become the opiates of the masses and, unfortunately, with the advent of hand held games consols, the brain destroying world of fantasy is on call 24/7/365.
It's about time we ALL realised that we are ABUSING our children by letting them suffer the debilitating effects of TV, Gameboy and simpering wimps who would not know discipline if it spat in their eyes.
It is about time we remembered that WE, as children, were loved without condition and benefited from the fact that we were encouraged and enabled to live with, cope with or over come problems which, today, would create mass hysteria in the minds of the drug purveying idiots we have allowed to rise to positions of influence where our kids are concerned.
STOP ABUSING YOUR CHILDREN - THUMP A CHILD PSYCOLOGIST AND CHALLENGE HIS PILL PRESCRIBING MENTALITY.
Damn and blast it - Apsense - why can't this system cope when I want to write more than a few words? Send my comment? I'll try!
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