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Originally Posted by Xazy
While I can agree about being super sensitive in many things these days, making a comment about the special Olympics which is for intellectually or developmentally disabled is wrong. These are people who do not necessarily have the same functionality as others and therefore need that extra protection. Maybe I am more caring about it now since my wife works with them.
And yes a president every word is analyzed but certain words and comments just should not be said, ever.
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I've worked with them also. The ones I have known and worked with did not look at their disabilities as something to be depressed over but as a problem to overcome. We can actually learn a lot from them, I did.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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