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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 234246" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">Science sure has come a long way, hasn't it? My sister's Dr said we can assume that my dad had celiac's disease, and quite possibly my mother as well. Two of my sister's have it and one niece - my dad died of digestive system related cancers. Back then celiac wasn't a blip on the diagnosis chart so it never would have occurred to anyone to test him for it. My mom has consistently refused to get a test and likely never will. When she's on a celiac at my sister's home diet she does better, but at my house I restrict her dairy intake and get same results so who knows.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">I knew of kids in elementary school who had that funny sounding thing called tourettes. But back then, all the kids with 'mental problems' weren't mainstreamed and they all were in separate classes that ended with the suffix "R"...as in Math R, English R, Science R, etc. They had their own gym classes, art classes, and music classes. Their ONE classroom was in a short hall in the back of the school, hidden away so the kids couldn't mix and they took a separate bus. My neighbor and best friend had what would now be considered a VERY mild Learning Disability (LD) and he was in all Remedial classes up until the HS level. He was in classes with kids who had cerebral palsy and sat in a wheelchair all day, barely able to move at all. There were aides, but they were basically moms working part time. I remember my friend crying every Fall when school was about to begin. He was ostracized and tortured because he wasn't mentally retarded and he didn't have any behavioral issues whatsoever yet his torturers called him 'retard' on a daily basis. His only problem was that he didn't learn as fast as the others. He later went on to own and run a stationary store on LI and married and had a couple of kids - did great. But the stigma as a child was awful for him. Back then (60's & 70's), these disorders were around, but they didn't always have a label and no one knew what to do with those poor kids so they lumped them all together and hid them away. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">I remember describing difficult child's symptoms to my ex mother in law and she said, "Oh, exh was like that all the time. Drove me crazy but I didn't dare take him to the DR because I thought they would take him away from me and put him in a home somewhere" because that is what they did. She even said she had an aunt who probably just had tourettes and she was institutionalized for life - my ex-mother in law said it was back in the late 40's when they did this. Just terrible.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 234246, member: 2211"] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkred]Science sure has come a long way, hasn't it? My sister's Dr said we can assume that my dad had celiac's disease, and quite possibly my mother as well. Two of my sister's have it and one niece - my dad died of digestive system related cancers. Back then celiac wasn't a blip on the diagnosis chart so it never would have occurred to anyone to test him for it. My mom has consistently refused to get a test and likely never will. When she's on a celiac at my sister's home diet she does better, but at my house I restrict her dairy intake and get same results so who knows.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkred][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkred]I knew of kids in elementary school who had that funny sounding thing called tourettes. But back then, all the kids with 'mental problems' weren't mainstreamed and they all were in separate classes that ended with the suffix "R"...as in Math R, English R, Science R, etc. They had their own gym classes, art classes, and music classes. Their ONE classroom was in a short hall in the back of the school, hidden away so the kids couldn't mix and they took a separate bus. My neighbor and best friend had what would now be considered a VERY mild Learning Disability (LD) and he was in all Remedial classes up until the HS level. He was in classes with kids who had cerebral palsy and sat in a wheelchair all day, barely able to move at all. There were aides, but they were basically moms working part time. I remember my friend crying every Fall when school was about to begin. He was ostracized and tortured because he wasn't mentally retarded and he didn't have any behavioral issues whatsoever yet his torturers called him 'retard' on a daily basis. His only problem was that he didn't learn as fast as the others. He later went on to own and run a stationary store on LI and married and had a couple of kids - did great. But the stigma as a child was awful for him. Back then (60's & 70's), these disorders were around, but they didn't always have a label and no one knew what to do with those poor kids so they lumped them all together and hid them away. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkred][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkred]I remember describing difficult child's symptoms to my ex mother in law and she said, "Oh, exh was like that all the time. Drove me crazy but I didn't dare take him to the DR because I thought they would take him away from me and put him in a home somewhere" because that is what they did. She even said she had an aunt who probably just had tourettes and she was institutionalized for life - my ex-mother in law said it was back in the late 40's when they did this. Just terrible.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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