I believe that it's ok to be creatively maladjusted. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed so.


... There are certain technical words within every academic discipline that soon become stereotypes and cliches. Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word in modern psychology. It is the word "maladjusted." This word is the ringing cry to modern child psychology. Certainly, we all want to avoid the maladjusted life. In order to have real adjustment within our personalities, we all want the well-adjusted life in order to avoid neurosis, schizophrenic personalities.

But I say to you, my friends, as I move to my conclusion, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize. I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence. But in a day when sputniks and explorers are dashing through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. It is no longer the choice between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence, and the alternative to disarmament. The alternative to absolute suspension of nuclear tests. The alternative to strengthening the United Nations and thereby disarming the whole world may well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of annihilation. This is why I welcome the recent test-ban treaty.

In other words, I'm about convinced now that there is need for a new organization in our world. The International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment--men and women who will be as maladjusted as the prophet Amos. Who in the midst of the injustices of his day could cry out in words that echo across the centuries, "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." As maladjusted as Abraham Lincoln who had the vision to see that this nation would not survive half-slave and half-free. As maladjusted as Thomas Jefferson who in the midst of an age amazingly adjusted to slavery would scratch across the pages of history words lifted to cosmic proportions, "We know these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator certain unalienable rights" that among these are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." As maladjusted as Jesus of Nazareth who could say to the men and women of his day, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you. Pray for them that despitefully use you." Through such maladjustment, I believe that we will be able to emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man into the bright and glittering daybreak of freedom and justice. My faith is that somehow this problem will be solved.


www.pacificviews.org/weblog/...255.html
www.mindfreedom.org/mfi-video/mlk

But they would have missed all the debt collectors and telemarketers because they were already on the phone. So it has to be skewed. heh

<<I studied in a research and statistics course, and I learned that you can be pretty damn accurate with as little as 30 people.>>

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

There's truth in that.

If statistics was as accurate as all that, one wouldn't need to have elections - just calculate the results. For that matter you could be statistically assigned grades in school or on driving tests.

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I used to drool when I was a little child......I was in special education system
had nothing to do with mental retardation

I have a history of Dyspraxia....it's a developmental coordination Disorder.......it also affected my speech....that would be Verbal Dyspraxia


Early Symptoms of Dyspraxia

The information below is taken from A Practical Manual for Parents and Professionals by Madeleine Portwood and the Developmental Dyspraxia Foundation UK with their kind permission. Full details of the research and profiles of Dyspraxic children can be found in 'A Practical Manual for Parents and Professionals' Behaviours 0 - 3 Years

"There are many early indications that a child is dyspraxic and a summary is shown below:

* Irritable and difficult to comfort - from birth
* Feeding difficulties: milk allergies, colic, restricted diet
* Sleeping difficulties: problems establishing routine, requires constant adult reassurance
* Delayed early motor development: sitting unaided, rolling from side to side: do not usually go through the crawling stage
* High levels of motor activity: constantly moving arms and legs
* Repetitive behaviours: head banging or rolling
* Sensitive to high levels of noise
* Continued problems with development of feeding skills
* Toilet training may be delayed
* Avoids constructional toys such as jigsaws and Lego
* Delayed language development: single words not evident until age 3
* Highly emotional: easily distressed, frequent outbursts of uncontrolled behaviour
* Concentration limited to 2 or 3 minutes on any task?

Summary of Behaviours 3 - 5 very High Levels of Motor Activity

* feet swinging and tapping when seated
* hands clapping or twisting
* unable to stay in one place longer than 5 minutes

Very Excitable

* voice loud and shrill
* easily distressed
* temper tantrums

Moves Awkwardly

* constantly bumping into objects and falling
* associated mirror movements, hands flap when running or jumping

Difficulty Pedaling Tricycle or Similar Toy

* Poor ground awareness
* no sense of danger, jump from inappropriate heights

Continue to be Messy Eaters

* often spill liquid from drinking cups
* prefer to use fingers to feed

Avoids Constructional Toys

* jigsaws
* building blocks (Lego)

Poor Fine Motor Skills

* pencil grip
* use of scissors
* immature drawings

Lack of Imaginative Play

* Do not enjoy 'dressing up' or playing appropriately in the home corner or Wendy House. - Limited creative play

Isolated in Peer Group

* prefers adult company

Laterality Still not Established

* problems crossing mid line Language Difficulties Persist
* children often referred to speech therapist

Sensitive to Sensory Stimulation

* high levels of noise
* dislike being touched or wearing new clothes

Limited Response to Verbal Instructions

* slower response time
* problems with comprehension

Limited Concentration

* tasks often left unfinished"


www.dyspraxiausa.org/symptom...xia.html

You know he doesn't. That's why I don't waste time reading his dribble.