GET THIS KID AWAY FROM ME!!!

VinBin, dont think your immune to it. We have 2nd generation Asians that are pretty obese. One kid is like 17 years old and plays defensive lineman for the local team, I saw him running one day and he could barely keep up and he was carrying a gallon jug of water with him. He would stop every few feet to take another drink. He couldnt run worth crud. he easily 100 lbs overweight. Im afraid that in 10 years my tax dollars will be going to feed him happy meals when he gets too fat to leave the house.

Again, if your overwieght by 100lbsor more and you want to claim disabilty, and you need home health, you must start eating meal replacements, must enroll in a fitness program and you must have weekly wiegh-ins. The state shouldnt waste money on those who chose this lifestyle by not taking better care of themselves. Gross obesity is a preventable and cureable disease. LEts stop feeling sorry for these lazy people and start helping them by teaching them how to take care of themselves again. They should be given 12 months to drop the weight to satisfactory levels and once the Doc signs them to where they are capable of working again, thats the end of the gravy train, they need to get out and get a job and not allow themselves to get that way again.

I dont want my tax dollars spent on a fat lady who chose to do nothing but sit on her butt all day, watch TV, and eat junk food for the past 10 years.
 
Yea, my comment on never having to worry about being fat was just a joke...

Capt.Panic, thats what I was alluding to, most are first or second gen. so havent been very immersed into the "american" culture yet...But see, the idea of indulgence doesnt make sense when we look at the TV or media, we see perfect bodies, it doesnt seem make sense...

There is a theory that has been popular for obesity, that "its in your genes", you cant help it that your fat...While this may be the case for a very small minority, the majority believe this...So this idea that "You cant change your genes" gets ingrained in their heads, so a lot of obese people never try to break out of the cycle. Oh well...


ed. heh...On a side note, this discussion has gone way off topic
 
Originally posted by VinBin@Oct 18 2005, 03:25 PM
ed. heh...On a side note, this discussion has gone way off topic
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It happens. All it takes is a side reference and someone to pick up on it and away it goes.

Oh, BTW, did I mention how bad my 7 year old was at Wal-Mart last week. It's okay though because he can't help it. He's got Aspergers with PDD so he is not able to control his actions. I couldn't punish him, its not his fault.

















AND.....


GO!
 
EMTprincess,

I feel your pain. mine has PDD. They are really fun as teenagers!! Everyday is a new adventure. feel free for pm me if you ever need to talk! And trust me, sometimes you need too!
 
I will never know if it was better that all my grandparents died when I was 3... much like this little girl, or if it would have been better that they died later when I was in highschool, better preparing me for my parents inevitable passing in the not to distant future.
 
Originally posted by Margaritaville@Oct 19 2005, 04:18 PM
EMTprincess,

I feel your pain. mine has PDD. They are really fun as teenagers!! Everyday is a new adventure. feel free for pm me if you ever need to talk! And trust me, sometimes you need too!
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What's PDD?
 
Originally posted by EMTPrincess@Oct 19 2005, 05:34 AM
He's got Aspergers with PDD so he is not able to control his actions.
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What exactly is PDD???

My brother is DX'd with Aspergers, and I'm "suspected" (Go figure :lol: )
 
PDD is Pervasive Development Disorder. Its in the Autism spectrum. Basically, there are so many types and degrees of autism, children with PDD exhibit traits of a number of them.
 
So Asperger's with PDD is a scientific term for "wild child"???

Given that both are prone to EXTREMELY BAD temper tantrums to the point of being dangerously destructive.
 
Originally posted by CaptainPanic@Dec 6 2005, 11:32 AM
So Asperger's with PDD is a scientific term for "wild child"???

Given that both are prone to EXTREMELY BAD temper tantrums to the point of being dangerously destructive.
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I think so... I'm remembering my "autisim 101"


Jon
 
Originally posted by CaptainPanic@Dec 6 2005, 11:32 AM
So Asperger's with PDD is a scientific term for "wild child"???

Given that both are prone to EXTREMELY BAD temper tantrums to the point of being dangerously destructive.
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Umm..not exactly. My son does not and never has had a temper tantrum (in the on the floor kicking and screaming sense)


Look at this site... CHILD BRAIN it will explain better
 
Well I read the first page you gave me and from what Ive read its basically he has a varied degree of autism. He's likely got an above average IQ but he is verbally or socially impaired.

So with that said-

1.) He is he mainstreamed with the other students given his high learning ability?
2.) Does he have to have therapy with a speech-language pathologist?

And also reading through their I think I fit the Asperger's Syndrome because I have been labelled "bizzare, eccentric, different, and odd". And yes I can remember useless trivia. :blink:
 
My son's IQ is 140. Last year he was in a regular 1st grade classroom with a teacher in her first year of teaching. The poor thing didn't know what to do with him. She was trying to teach 1+1 and she promptly informed her he has been doing that since he was 2, can he go outside and play now.

This year he is in a trial program for gifted kids. There are 2 teachers for 15 kids, plus an extra teacher with special training in gifted education. This year he is challenged.

His speech develpment has been fine. For him it has been the social develpment. Socially he is at the level of about a 4 year old now.

He is kind of in his own little bubble. He lives his life to make himself happy, regardless of what the society "norm" says he should be doing. For example, we were at Publix (grocery store) not so long ago. I was talking with the GM who happens to be friend of mine and look at my son who has just completed a set of sommersaults in the aisle. Ask him what he thought he was doing, "What, it was fun" and then climbed in the cart and didn't say a word for the rest of the time we were out.

For him, everything is about how he can extract the fun out of it. I often times find myself saying "Your so smart, what were you thinking?" Is answer is always some form of "What??? It was fun." Think of the country song by Mark Chestnut "What Were You Thinking?"

Traditional punishments...yea right. Usually I have to be creative. And I can always take away his "fun" being games (board, card, or video).

He does great with (here is the key) ENFORCED guidelines. If I say it, I darn well better mean it. He takes everything literally. If I say, "Next time you run out in front of my car I might run you over" he will take that to mean I want him dead. He often doesnt "get the punchline" so to speak.

But he is funny and charming and caring and giving and sensitive and doesn't like to share and in his own littel bubble. He keeps me on my toes and always trying to think one step ahead of him.
 
Wow. So I guess since he's so smart- he'll likely end up going to special schools (for smart kids) but will likely need additional therapy for the social development?

So is he like in 2nd grade but he is learning at a 6th grade level but functioning at the pre-school level (or at least what it sounds like to me)? This is interesting.

I think he is going to have on interesting childhood and his middle school years are going to be nuts, but maybe in highschool things will start to balance out a little perhaps?

-CP
 
Originally posted by CaptainPanic@Dec 7 2005, 11:56 AM
Wow. So I guess since he's so smart- he'll likely end up going to special schools (for smart kids) but will likely need additional therapy for the social development?

So is he like in 2nd grade but he is learning at a 6th grade level but functioning at the pre-school level (or at least what it sounds like to me)? This is interesting.

I think he is going to have on interesting childhood and his middle school years are going to be nuts, but maybe in highschool things will start to balance out a little perhaps?

-CP
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Kind of hit the nail on the head. I sure as heck hope it balances out before high school!!!! The men in the white coats will be coming for me before then!! :P :D :lol:
 
I took an IQ test just for pure hell of it, and I got a 118- on the IQ scale Im of "high intelligence". Also said I have exceptional math and verbal skills. :blink:

Wonder how everyone else fares???? I took the tickle.com test.

-CP
 
120. and it says I am an "Imaginative Matermind"
 
Originally posted by EMTPrincess@Dec 7 2005, 10:58 AM


He is kind of in his own little bubble. He lives his life to make himself happy, regardless of what the society "norm" says he should be doing. For example, we were at Publix (grocery store) not so long ago. I was talking with the GM who happens to be friend of mine and look at my son who has just completed a set of sommersaults in the aisle. Ask him what he thought he was doing, "What, it was fun" and then climbed in the cart and didn't say a word for the rest of the time we were out.

For him, everything is about how he can extract the fun out of it. I often times find myself saying "Your so smart, what were you thinking?" Is answer is always some form of "What??? It was fun." Think of the country song by Mark Chestnut "What Were You Thinking?"
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You know what Princess, that attitude of his is great. What society should be and what it is are two different things. I truly believe that "society" holds us down, it's one big fat hypocrite and serves no purpose. If he can maintain that outlook and harness his intelligence, he will be truly happy in life and answer to no one.

(obviously I don't mean to exlude discipline, and learn right from wrong, etc...all the common sense stuff)
 
Originally posted by CaptainPanic@Dec 7 2005, 09:56 AM
Wow. So I guess since he's so smart- he'll likely end up going to special schools (for smart kids) but will likely need additional therapy for the social development?

So is he like in 2nd grade but he is learning at a 6th grade level but functioning at the pre-school level (or at least what it sounds like to me)? This is interesting.

I think he is going to have on interesting childhood and his middle school years are going to be nuts, but maybe in highschool things will start to balance out a little perhaps?

-CP
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Sounds like a girl I dated once... ;)
 
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