Guest guest Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 Ok...I will take the bait or in this case intrude upon the newly opened can of worms... I am AP. I have an LP daughter with many issues who didnt become my daughter til she was six. That was enough to throw any kid or parent. Add her rare dwarfism and you have another ingredient to what we deal with. I had no experience with what she faces at any stage of her life because of her dwarfism and there are many things with many more to come. HOW am I going to get the answers I need to help her grow mentally and spiritually and there have been times when it had a physical element though those are nearly over for her? Do I pull a rabbit out of my hat? NO...I go to the list and ask sensitive questions on her behalf. I have friends from this list who also support me (Love yer Fred) and encourage her and ME as her mother. Am I supposed to fall over my words so Im politically correct or pull the blanket up to my chin and ask " undercover " ? =) If it wasnt for Rockwood's intercession my daughter would most likely still be in Russia...and Fred has been invaluable as an ally to her AND me...sometimes plays devil's advocate but ever there to guide. Apryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 Hi Apryl, I don't think overall we have any issues with parents posting questions to the list, in fact I'd say we all welcome them. I myself privately answer quite a few as time allows. What we all get a bit tired of are these folks who see one of these wacko TV programs and run to Goggle to 'seek' us out. Then they proceed to sign themselves up to the list and post these generalized statements about dwarfs are if we are all " one bunch " of cute, loveable individuals. I had just replied to Dan's post, joking that my house is were the Lucky Charms elf came to die!! I doubt anyone on my staff (college students) thinks I'm cute, loveable, happy go lucky or any of those typical descriptions. Supportive, encouraging, fair and honest enough to keep them growing perhaps. I suspect that by the time the girl posted the other day informing us that due to the fact that she had just discovered where all of us charming individuals where that were going to give her a " career " , we had had it. (I know it's a run on sentence, but I'm late for work!). We've been reading post after post about the silly a** FOX show with no redeeming value and along come the wackos (and they always appear after any program, especially in chat rooms)!! I know that for the most part they mean no harm and are harmless, but at times they find the tiny tear in the thick skin we develop and " BOOM " . Let's all celebrate the fact that IT'S FINALLY FRIDAY!!!! Have a good one folks, > Ok...I will take the bait or in this case intrude upon the newly opened can > of worms... > I am AP. I have an LP daughter with many issues who didnt become my daughter > til she was six. That was enough to throw any kid or parent. Add her rare > dwarfism and you have another ingredient to what we deal with. I had no > experience with what she faces at any stage of her life because of her dwarfism and > there are many things with many more to come. HOW am I going to get the > answers I need to help her grow mentally and spiritually and there have been times > when it had a physical element though those are nearly over for her? Do I > pull a rabbit out of my hat? NO...I go to the list and ask sensitive questions > on her behalf. I have friends from this list who also support me (Love yer > Fred) and encourage her and ME as her mother. Am I supposed to fall over my > words so Im politically correct or pull the blanket up to my chin and ask > " undercover " ? =) If it wasnt for Rockwood's intercession my daughter would > most likely still be in Russia...and Fred has been invaluable as an ally to her > AND me...sometimes plays devil's advocate but ever there to guide. > > Apryl > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 From: " Marty " <martie@...> > I think that is addressed very well in the guidelines now, > > " show a high degree of respect for the individual viewpoints of people > with dwarfism, even if they do not fully agree with them. " > > That seems fair to me. > > Marty Fair, but difficult to enforce. After all, you, AP Marty look down on your wife, and every other LP on here. We in turn, are forced, yes FORCED to look UP to every AP on here. I think it's about time we did a Gulliver on some of you AP's! So there:-) Fred, in a militant mood:-)))) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 " I know now that I opened a can of worms that maybe I shouldn't have. Simply said, I'd like APs to feel welcome in the group and to be able to find out how we live if they really want to know. We as a group want to become more accepted in the general public, correct? It can start here. " Happy 40th, Joe. And I agree. I'm an AP and you know, we're not rude people on a whole...we just don't know all that much about LP. Coming to a forum like this is really helpful. We get to learn about what you guys have to deal with and such. It's a beneficial thing. I originally joined the group because I needed to do research for a psychology project (my paper was on how AP view LP, but I had decided to expand it to how LP also view AP. It was mostly a question of how we accept people and to what degree. I found that most people I asked, LP included, have no problem being friends with everyone but would prefer to date/marry someone their own size), but then became interested in just hanging around. -Leanna Mit schönen Grüßen von - http://mail..de Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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