Aine
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mons....classic case of dyslexia. And I'm sure that if you spoke to a person with dyslexia in person, they would generally come off just as articulate as the next joe blow. There are also ones that are extremely articulate. There are some that are also not quite so articulate. They are not lazy. I've known other dyslexics throughout my short lifetime and they have all been intelligent, and not any lazier than anyone else. I've seen extreme intelligent people that are some of the most lazy, annoying people I've ever met. And I've had conversations with some of the less articulate, but have come out of those conversations feeling wonderful at having had a quite insightful conversation. They don't have to be as articulate as anyone else. You just have to be willing and open to what they are saying and patient in order to understand whatever point they are making. Hell, I sometimes have to work even harder to understand those that are in my opinion,"too articulate", ie: flashy talkers. But I digress a bit. Here is an example of what I consider under the "lazy" category. "I THINK IF U R A TRUE DOM, U WOULD EXCEPT UR SLAVE/SUB FOR THERE MINDSET, OFCOURSE U WANT TO BE PRESENTABLE WITHIN REASON, BUT A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A MASTER AND SLAVE/SUB IS UNCONDITIONAL..IN MY OPINION..." There are other examples that I could put in here, but again, as so many assumed was mons' case. They could have some sort of viable reasoning behind their "less than average" typing skills. I wouldn't want to step on any more toes than I will be in the releasing of this post. Another example. I have a good friend who is very intelligent, very funny, very wonderful to talk to and a great advise giver when he isn't being his normal crass self. Yet he has always had a hard time with spelling. It's something we rip on him for, but it's all in good fun and he takes no offense from it because he's accepted that he can't spell worth a crap no matter how hard he tries on his own. Is he lazy? Hell fucking no. He's actually a programmer. In casual settings does he use spell checker? No. No real reason to. We, who know and understand him, generally get what he says and for us, his lack of spelling skills takes a complete back-burner position in our overall opinion of him. His lack of spelling skills should not and does not diminish who he is as a person and the goodness that is in his personality. I will agree to you to some extent, the learning disabilities in the YOUNGER generation these days is running ape-shit-rampant. I do believe that there are true and -real- cases out there. Do I think all of them are? Fuck no. I think that in a lot of cases, the parents don't know how to parent, the teachers are getting lazy and the doctors get kick-backs for the amounts of medsthey shove down kids' throats. But that's a whole other can-o-worms. But to make a blanket statement about ALL learning disabilities is just people being lazy and rendering themselves "stupid", is one of the most ignorant, lazy sentiments on humanity that I've heard in a long time.
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Honey, you obviously missed the "want to be used as a toilet fetish" thread or "where do I get instructions on setting my sub on fire" thread. LOL Thank you, DelRay for that one.
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