Has it really been eight days since I last wrote in this blog? Whew!
The folks from Cleveland, who were interested in the book, have been turned away with a solid "no!" I guess we are going to see what the "New York" deal will be!! The "movie deal" is in the hands of the proper people, who will use it to tell the story of someone, who really know what it was like to be condemned for just being alive!
...Even I can't claim to have been as "abused' as poor Nellie was,..I just had to deal with and redirect the behaviors that stemmed from the cruelty, others,.."professionals," or so called professionals,..laid on that poor woman! She had nineteen years of pure solid hell laid upon her. If her story can be told properly, then..maybe it will save the lives of other intelligent people, who are in Nellie's same circumstances,..from some of those "so-called-professionals,"...who actually care nothing about how their decisions affect the lives of the human beings, that they are dealing with. Helping EVERYONE have a better life,..excluding no one from having a chance at a normal life, if that is their choice. That always has been the goal. That always will be the goal. That should always be the goal.
..My ADA "idealism' has died an unpleasant death. In 1994,..I actually believed with all of my heart that ADA would accomplish miracles in helping other folks accept people with disabilities, but I have even been reminded in my virtual life on line..that this is not so!! I won't go into the details, but it is sort of funny..being online..I find that I have equal access to being "rooked or snooked or anything else,"..on an equal basis with everyone else..so I guess that I have achieved "equality" in that area!!"
..Heh! Online,..I find myself having written letters,..that I have no records of writing,....saying and doing things...that I never did,...and am even provided with "proof,'" furnished and sometimes written or quoted out of context by someone else;...that all I have to be is accused by the proper person,..and I am "guilty"...of some things..that I am not yet sure..what of!!
..In Real Life,..trial by public opinion is oftimes called a "lynch mob!" I wonder if the online crowd has a name for it yet..or will even admit to it. My online adventures should provide very good print for my next book! There is always some one, who will scream, "I never said that!! I never did that!"......even if it is a matter of PUBLIC RECORD!!
Back to the ADA thingie,..I am called out of line because I actually speak out loud and clear on issues that bother me, and should be bothering other people, but in reality,..don't seem to bother anyone at all! The reason that certain issues don't bother anyone is that people of all types have been taught to keep their mouths shut up about them..i..e...deafness and conceptualization and the lack of understanding about what that can do to a person's ability to fit in with English speaking folk,..lack of curb access in Columbus, Ohio..Capitol city of Ohio;..people,..happily labeling unwanted deaf or blind folks in their families..retarded or mentally ill so as to be able to sequester them in "mental institutions and not have to bother with those diabled relatives as human beings;..refusing to train people in certain professions..ignoring what the person has accomplished in real life and basing that person's training on a certain diagnosis;..allowing lawyers to cheat som diabled folks out of what they might inherit or certain basic civil rights.."because that person could not understand them..anyway!!;"......I could go on and on, but my fingers are running out of the energy to type about such things and my mind is becoming ill from having to spew out actualities, that I know from my own experieces..exist..and nothing is being done about them!! heh!
I did have a piece of disturbing gossip come to me from the "Sue Thomas" presentaion in Canton,..ohio,..a deaf man, who is now a reknowned inventor,. that I am familiar with,.. told me that a teacher, who used to take great pleasure in beating the hell out of him as a child in school, (a deaf child would never tell and be believed and besides the kid was..just a deafie..you know,..a retard, who would never amount to much,...anyway!);...now crosses the street on the opposite side of the road everytime he sees that deaf inventor in public!!
Could this "deaf inventor's" teacher be ashamed of something that he did to that man as a child....like beating the hell out of him? I told the man, "Unless you personally speak out and tell your own story,..you will still be angry, and that teacher will still have won by taking away a part of your life from you."
I can do nothing for him, (the deaf man)...personally. He must speak out for himself,..but I can tell his story so that others will know that this sort of thing still happens!! That is one of the reasons that I yammer so much about my hassles in public..unless one person has the courage to speak out against certain things,..such abuses will go on in the quiet privacy of their own silent secrecy,..a mode of self-perpetuation!
Oooooo-kaaaaay!!!
I find myself with very little sympathy for the protesters for peace in this Iraqi war. What good is blocking traffic while you scream out that you are trying to save lives..while in the very traffic that you are blocking is an ambulance, carrying a person, whose life could be measured in the minutes and seconds that it is taking for that ambulance to get to the hospital? What good is spray painting a war memorial..for soldiers, who have given their lives for freedom for a certain country, whose language,..I will not now speak..till this war is over, because I am ashamed of that part of my heritage....because of the actions of a few idiots in that country? What good has been accomplished by reporters, who sell information on the locations of American troops..for an exclusive story, which they hope will bring them big "bucks' in the United States?
Got to go!! Lunch time!!
