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What kind of wrongful accusations and terminations have you been involved in?

I was terminated from a job for not showing up for a shift and having my roommate call my manager to say I was too sick to come in when in reality we road tripped to see the Grateful Dead in Illinois. "Well tell him he doesn't have to bother coming in anymore at all."

Falsely accused?

I drove a "handicapped" mini-bus for a company in my mind-twenties. A terrible job for me trying to navigate a metro area. I liked working with the people very much. They were like me. They had challenges. I enjoyed talking with them. There was a regular passenger who was wheelchair bound with cerebral palsy. He told me that he never really talked to other drivers because they weren't friendly to him and didn't take proper care to strap him properly, but he liked it when I would pick him up. I was beaming inside when he told me that.

One morning, the rather gruff dispatch woman told me I was off that route because that passenger said I was rough with him. I was crushed. I was in disbelief. About a week later and not much prior to me deciding to leave the job, the dispatcher told me there had been a mistake and it was not me he was talking about, it had been some other driver.

Do you have any relatives with physical or mental disabilities preventing them from living on their own?

Yes

What do you like to do , that others tell you to stop doing?

I had a cousin that did not have Downs Syndrome but was considered in the late 1950s when he was born to be "mentally ret*d". He could only speak a few sentences and couldn't read or write. When I was a grade schooler he was probably 20. He was one of my favorite people of all time. Not just me. All of us cousins loved him. He never hurt a fly and was always happy to see you. Unfortunately his father and even one of his siblings were mean to him sometimes. To this day, some of us won't talk to his dad or the sibling.

He eventually did live in a group home, but died there from apparently falling down some stairs. He was such a loss. R.I.P., Tommy. I'll always love you!

I don't mean to be a downer! I have very good memories of him.

On a lighter note: Did you have a favorite toy as a child?

No favorite toy


What are the biggest punishments and rewards that you have gotten and for what?

Yes, RIP Tommy! Thank you for sharing another story!

My favourite toys were my stuffed toys Twitch (a mouse) and Leonard (a leopard). My back story is that at my grandmother's funeral I couldn't cry (fear of expressing emotion) so I put Twitch in the trash bin at the funeral to make me cry. I intended to retrieve him after the service but got frightened that the trash would be emptied before he was rescued. I rescued him very quickly because the desired effect of tears had been achieved. Twitch and Leonard went with me to Uni but at one point I took them home with me on a visit, and my mother threw them away. She said she didn't know they were important.


This is almost identical to Twitch.

I'm still looking for Leonard online.

Punishment: my father thought I tore the leather captain's seat on our boat, but I didn't. He was disappointed with me and upset for several weeks, barely speaking to me. It was horrible. Reward: pardon me? I can't think of one at all.


same q

I cannot think of a punishment that stands out. They are grey moments. Rewards.. well I won an art competition when I was about 12. We, the contestants, were in the window of a department store with our backs to the public and we drew or painted on an easel so the public could watch. I had developed a technique at that age of scribbling lots of colours to make outlines of people and I did a scene with hippies in it. (It was the hippy era) I filled it with flowers and colour - it was not really the age group type painting, much more an adult abstract type thing. I was not in it to win - people like me don't win things - so imagine my amazement when I was told to line up for the prizegiving as I was getting first prize! One of the judges who was reading out the winners made a mistake (possibly thinking no way my scribbling should win) and announced the winner as a girl who had drawn a...wait for it...pony. My little heart sank. But - all was not lost, another judge stood up and said "No no - this is the girl who won!" and I stepped forward to claim my prize - $10 or similar. It was a stand out moment.

Question: Can you remember a time when things worked out well when you didn't think they would?

Someone stole my car. Two months later, while riding a bike, I found the car

Being the first woman in the men's locker room at UCSD



What was the most extreme job interview that you have ever had?

I've been lucky in that sense. I've never had an "extreme job interview."


Same question.

There were over 10 people in the room, representing 2 schools and a mental health agency.
People that were in the room became colleagues and the one that scared me the worse shared an office with me for a couple of years.

Would you rather walk on a trail or a inside rolling river. (Circular water trail about 3 feet deep. One was is with the current the other more difficult. )

Favorite toy: a stuffed toy Siamese cat

Biggest award: Winning the Literacy Council Spelling Bee in 2013 and 2016

Extreme job interview: none, all were very typical interviews

Time something worked out well: Coming back from an incident that caused me to lose my driver's license for three months. I never thought I'd get it back, but I did. Also, learning how to play tennis. I never thought of myself as athletic, but always craved a more active lifestyle. I can't wait to get back on court again.

What sport did you want to try, or have you tried, that you never thought you could do? As I mentioned, mine is tennis.

I feel that everyone needs to be treated with equal respect and compassion, no matter who they are or where they come from or what they have done.

Do you ever feel deeply exhausted, not in a physical sense?