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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2017-01-04

"Instead of telling disabled kids 'you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it,' I think we should tell them, 'the things you are capable of doing matter.'

"A person can't live on a increasingly strained hope that someday they'll be good enough, especially if all you ever do is tell them who they are and what they do now is worthless."

-- fullyarticulatedgolkdskeleton (thanks to Sara and others for sharing this earlier)

[Today is the eleventh day of Christmas.]

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gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
posted by [personal profile] gingicat at 11:15am on 2017-01-04
Ooh, well said.
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posted by [personal profile] silmaril at 05:42pm on 2017-01-04
That is very, very insightful, and I think applies to all kids. Hell, everyone. But I'm not disputing that disabled kids may need to hear it more.

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