MY SHINING STAR
Hello all
Nothing to do with BC, just thought I'd post a conversation that I had with my daughter last night (disabled one) last night. It made me laugh. For all the trials she has brought she is my shining star.
Took them food shopping last week. Since she and her partner have been living together they have, to put it mildly, got fat!!! Brought them lots of veges, fruit with instructions on having veges with every meal. She rang last night - they enjoyed the steak I'd brought them and had two veges with it. Yep , mashed potato and chips!!!!! Oh boy back to the drawing board.
Pam
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Oh dear!!! That's funny Pam they are treasures aren't they
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Ho ho ho.... That's bloody funny ????
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Love it, they are vegies are they not
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Hi all, glad you found it as amusing as me. Baffling, frustrating but amusement won. I'm surprised someone hasn't written a book about life with a disabled child/adult (shes 28 now), maybe they have. They have such an interesting perspective and thought process. She is mild, no known cause, just mental retardation ie IQ68, under 70 is regarded as disabled.
One afternoon when she was 18yrs old, she walked in and announced to the whole family that she wasn't a virgin anymore - and that she really liked sex!! Dad left and hid in his shed, her brother was sent to his room cause he couldn't stop laughing. Oh boy, I had a male LAC (local area coordinator disability services) at that stage and enlisted his help to try to get through to her, I had a nymphomaniac on my hands. Oh they were the days
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How innocent is that, at least she waited until she was 18. Life can be tough I'm sure you give her lots of love she is lucky to have you. Give her a cuddle from me and tell her there is someone else out there that believs mashed potato and chips should be vegies. Thanks for the smile I'm off to work and really don't want to go, have a goos day
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That's precious! She is a shining star. Jane xx
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Pam
thanks for your post. I can relate and it made me laugh.
My disabled daughter is 21 and living at home.
Our special girls do always provide us with warm laughter don't they.
My daughter has been so supportive during my time with BC, asking at the most inopurtune time, and rather loudly in company, 'how's your breast mum?'.
mind you my husband is quite pleased as he recently pulled a muscle in an awkward place and she was always asking him, 'how's your groin dad?'.
All the best
Kerr jerr
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LOL! So like my 18 yr old autistic son who lives at home! I have been being trying to get him to eat veggies all his life. He would say exactly the same thing. Right now he is txting me that he is throwing up - no wonder! He ate 6 cooked chicken schnitzels from the fridge last night (I had pre cooked for the whole family which I don't normally do). I've just gone in and asked him whether it was the 6 schnitzels that was making him sick. He said he doesn't think so, but maybe it was the 4 party pies he had for dessert!!!!!! His condition and meds give him a huge appetite but also fortunately means that he doesn't put on weight!
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Hey Nadi jennis partner is autistic. Quite different from Jenni. His mother has moved away so at the moment I inherited him. He cooks for them, he has 4 things he makes, very well I might add, but I finally worked out that I have to go there a few times and cook diferent things with him for him to gain the confidence. Just getting the time. And of course he is male and veggies is a dirty word.
And Kerr jerr yes they are gifted in making the right remarks, but just at the wrong time.
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