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Hayward
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Re: [Fun] For those that remember
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| said by Hayward  :Like what as far as being a kid goes? Steps forward in medical and electronic technology. Improved social relations (civil rights and recognition of medical problems such as autism, learning disabilities, etc.) that allow our society to better handle people with special needs instead of leaving them behind the rest. When my mother was a young girl black people where introduced in her class room. It was a very scary thing as she didn't know what a black person was. My daughter has many black friends and doesn't think anything of it.
Today's children have all sorts of technologies that help them learn at a much faster pace than any generation before them. This includes computer programs, educational programs, and special needs programs.
Children with more potential get put in special programs that nurse their desire to perform beyond other children their age. Children who are not are put in other special programs that help them achieve the best they can.
In the past an autistic child may find him or herself being ostracised systematically by teachers and parents who don't understand why they have to be so different.
Also, when I had my gal bladder removed I had three very small incisions and some killer meds that had me out of work for just one week, and then back on my feet like nothing happened. When my mother had the same surgery is a major deal that had all sorts of dangers attached to it.
The multi-racial couple that watches two of my kids during the day are able to move around in society with out being killed or beaten, or even laughed at. People just don't think it's weird at all. Their twins are a subject of adoration by strangers, not a lesson in societal freakness.
Backed up on my paid server I have thousands of photographs of my children that will never reduce in quality, and will still be around if my house where to burn down or a thief where to ransack my house.
I also get to discuss topics of interest with people all over the world. I get perspectives from people from all walks of life on all sorts of subjects that I would have never had considered otherwise.
I am very grateful for the people who came before me that have provided the freedom, advances in social justice, medical and computer technology, and have all around made the time and place I was born in a very comfortable time and place to live in. I would not swap it out with you older people who had to live through the beatings and murders of people who wanted nothing but to be treated just like everyone else. A time when medical technologies did not offer the simple cures we take for granted today. A time when people with disabilities where intentionally shoved to the side and put in asylums to be tortured because it was obviously their fault their brain doesn't work quite right.
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| said by Maxo : Improved social relations (civil rights and recognition of medical problems such as autism, learning disabilities, etc.) Two very interesting things for you to pick out... civil rights still shamefully lax though somewhat better... hey and back in the 60's up north I had black friends too... sorry the south had to be dragged into it kicking and screaming... and the KKK is sadly still around.
Autism now 1 in 166 births if you want to believe the ads... for what ever reason...(pollutions, scrip or illicit drug uses whatever) that did not exist back then.
Kids can no longer go out and just play, under age 12, and over that have been so coddled or ignored they have BECOME the problem.... beating up homeless, each other etc., and now even with Uzis
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The multi-racial couple that watches two of my kids during the day are able to move around in society with out being killed or beaten
again you are talking SO vs NO... again in that degree long gone from there and still sadly in the present, though many of threat ilk have now switched over to safer GAY bashing/murdering instead, the still remaining ignored discrimination. Even if the kid isn't but is being brought up by gay parents.
Your later points, don't really have to do with just being a kid, and a carefree childhood... in fact rather the opposite.
A kid just can't any long just be in their own little fun world. Even even allowed out of the house most places unsupervised, and even if capable of that parent likely hauled into court for neglect or something.
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