Mean people working with the profoundly disabled.

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I was outside of a doctors office a few times, just standing there waiting and I saw a group of people picking up trash several times. Not prisoners doing community service to reduce there sentence or be seen for good behaviors but persons with profoundly severe developmental disabilities like mental retardation.

I suppose as an employment function or just an activity partaking in such is good. However there employment team leader was very harsh in my opinion. The tone of voice used and the way they were spoken to I felt was harsh.

They seemed more like they were perceived as sub-humans the way they were spoken to. It was the tone of voice, like frustration or being short tempered.

No matter what the cogent ability of an individual, especially with those with developmental disabilities that are profound, we all deserve dignity and common respect. Yet that would be especially true with the disabled, I think there is a responsibility by organizations that employ individuals to work with the disabled, that they be caring and be respectful to the dignity of those whom they work with.

I know what you mean I can't stand people like that. There are times that I think some people work with the disabled just so they can have fun bossing them around. I usally say something when people do that and tell them to cut it out or else. But remember one day they will answer to God for that.

Ah, mean people. Not only do they make easy victims, but the best as well.
You don't need to feel guilty about say, throwing a water balloon or something equally as immature (and fun).

I really should go out of my way more to further aggravate people like that. Though I think I'd want to learn some Kung Fu first mean people tend to be violent. As an added benefit, they will likely become more frustrated and angry thus the entertainment factor increases.

I find it very nauseating, how losers choose to work with the Severley Disabled, just so that they can verbally bully them. One of my Councilors hooked me up with a Work Experience Agency that "help" people with Learning Disabilities, who are Average or Above in Intelligence, which describes myself, and Developemental Disabilities, such as Mental Retardation. I was stuck with the most Millitant Job Coach working with me. He told me that I was only supposed to make Small Talk, that I couldn't talk about Movies and Television and he lectured me on the difference between Fantasy and Reality, telling me shite that I knew when I was in Kindergarden. That was back in the Year 2000, when Austin Powers was my on-going Thing. He also told me that his goal was to get me talking like everybody else. I've presumed that he was saying that I have to lose my Accent, so I've put on my Proverbial Pearly Cap, hopped onto my Proverbial Routemaster and I've rode away into the Proverbial Sunset, without looking back, and I haven't walked back into that Prision, since that day.

A few months ago, he said "Hello" to me, and I've responded by telling him, that I don't know him.

... You're my hero.


One of the things that I have a hard time grasping is why people think that being vicious is going to help anything.

It has been my experience that wisdom is inversely proportional to yelling.

I would have said something to him, and then I would have reported it. You just don't treat people in this manner. It must be hard for the people that are forced to take this sort of abuse. Just because they can't communicate as well as others does not mean they don't have feelings.

- Ray M -

I must admit, I do get fustrated with mentally disabled people. At my local library, there is this fellow about late 20's to 30's, who keeps talking in a loud voice, and repeating things to himself. However, I also do realise that he probably can't help it, and maybe, if I ask him to be quiet, he would throw a tantrum.

Recently, I saw him, and he actually seems to talk more quietly. Now I have to remain quiet about the bloody kids who shriek and run about the library....

But still, I feel sorry for the mentally disabled if they have to cope with this sort of thing.

Hey, cockney rebel? You ever seen "The League of Gentlemen"? Your story reminds me of Pauline, the "restart officer"...

However, one hopes that the vast majority of people in those positions are compassionate, and adapt their counselling to suit the individual....