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See, this is where we disagree, SSDI *is* society's way of providing for people with disabilities. If you want to work, you can't get SSDI. Either you contribute to this society's taxes or you don't. You can't have it both ways. We pay taxes to fund Medicaid, which in turn is available for...

I brought this conversation up to my friends on Tuesday and wanted to address the genetics testing that you feel is the reason so many disabled children are aborted in the US. My friend's daughter was born with TARs. She is missing the long bones in both her arms and was born with low platelets...

The people that I work with succeed because they see their disability as something that have, not as who they are. It allows it to be an obstacle to overcome. At least in my line of work, those who see it as *who they are* generally behave as if it were a death sentence and give up. Or their...

Willowstar, I come from a family similar to your boyfriend. I am loud by nature and nurture. Hubby is an only child. Boyfriend is the younger of 2 boys. Both of them had a single parent. I am the oldest of 6. Thanksgiving dinners include my husband, parents (who got back together in my mid...

KDT - People go to college with the goal of getting a career afterwards. So while, there are reasonable accommodations that can be made to allow a paraplegic or quadriplegic to attend class, they are severely limited in career choices by their disability AND that is without factoring in...

How do we choose who has marketable skills and who doesn't is based on what skills they possess and what skills are in demand in the job market in our area. We had one high functioning woman referred to us that we had to turn down. Yes, she had a college degree in office administration, but she...

Yes, the brain is above the neck, but higher education requires the ability to communicate in more ways than just verbal. There are very few majors where accommodations would make sense for a paraplegic. You are also assuming that their capacity to learn is at college level. I work as an...

London and Bofish, I don't think you two are going to come to a consensus here because you're coming from two different cultural backgrounds. London, in the US, there is alot of concern over genetics testing and designer babies in some groups of the population. Whether they're getting their info...

The way I see it, if you have a good relationship with your therapist otherwise, than just don't talk about poly right now. Work on your other issues. Good therapists are hard to come by. When you're at a point where you think you may be able to start dating again, then find a poly therapist. ...

I'm also with Jane on the bickering. Runic Wolf and I bicker constantly, usually playfully. We've even made a game of doing it while grocery shopping just to see how the cashier reacts.

Yes, we fight. Sometimes we fight over miscommunication, sometimes over assumptions, and sometimes just because we've had a bad day and need to yell at someone. Sometimes Runic Wolf and Wendigo fight as well. This happened a few months ago, when Runic Wolf and I were arguing and Wendigo noticed...

First off, why does everyone seem to automatically assume that the OP's primary is his wife? I see this happening all the time on here lately and it's starting to get annoying that the assumption is always Primary = Wife/ Husband. As Magdlyn pointed out, the OP's other posts have said he is not...

I don't really see it as a big issue honestly. Runic Wolf and I have been married 13 years. Our son has grown up around our friends, some who have been FWB, his entire life. Our friends occasionally sleep over, for example the night we moved into our house, we played Rockband until the middle of...

Haven't been around for a while due to having had multiple surgeries in the last 3 weeks. I just got out of the hospital on Tuesday and am starting to feel more like myself - a tired and sore version, sure, but myself none the less. Unfortunately, they were unable to do my second surgery...

My boyfriend's wife works from home and they have a teenage son at home as well, so their place isn't an option because at any point there will be potentially 1-6 RoTC kids in the home. That usually means that he comes here and my husband either stays in his office or goes out. My husband's...

If you have talked to Hank and he isn't interested in Rory like that, why do you feel pressured to change your mind?

I just finished reading Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett and have started reading Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey; which incidentally is the series that the quote in LR's tagline comes from and is tattooed on Runic Wolf's girlfriend. "Love As Thou Wilt"

London - in Maca's experience, dating is drama. From reading both his and LR's story, he's only had one other relationship that wasn't full of drama.

It sounds to me like you're dating a man with Asperger's, who is behaving like someone on the spectrum. He doesn't connect to people the way that you do and probably finds the Buddist's philosophy similar to how he experiences connecting with partners. I know that is hard for you to accept, but...

The Pope has made child abuse/ molestation illegal in the Vatican, where before there was no specific laws that they could hold and punish priests by, as the Vatican is basically a country of it's own. Now offending priests can get shipped to the vatican for investigation and actually punished.