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Originally Posted by Burning Down
I remember last year, my grandpa was saying all kinds of stuff to my mother about autistic people and "how he (my brother) will never, ever even go to high school and you can forget about university. He will just end up living on the street or something like that." Those were his exact words, and I know he comes from a different generation when they didn't understand autism so those people just ended up in institutions and hospital psych wards and the like. But it upset my parents terribly and they didn't speak to him again for a few months until my grandma passed away last fall.
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Wow, that's horrible but I wouldn't resent him for saying those things. Like you said, it's just the generational gap... disabled people in the past were basically locked away from public.
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Originally Posted by tore
^Let me know if you're really good with statistics too. I might need your help.  |
I've done my share of stats but mostly in stochastic modelling and decision analysis which probably isn't terribly useful to you. You should ask Vanilla - it's her major