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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 287443" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I appreciate your post. It brought issues to life that many of us face daily. I read it and appreciate and admire the guts it takes to come into a forum like this and admit you screwed up. You are human and sometimes we make judgement calls we shouldn't. So we learn and try not to make that mistake again.</p><p></p><p>I am lower in income partly because of our choices. We CHOOSE the most expensive insurance option husband's company offers. We choose it because it has the best mental health coverage and Asperger's is considered a mental health issue by the insurance companies. I am also disabled. We have to take that into account.</p><p></p><p>I can't work. It isn't a choice. I can't even pick up the house for 15 minutes without spending a day or two in agonizing pain. My house DOES have trash on the floor. When I can I sit on the floor with a garbage bag and pick up what I can. The kids do what they can. Even in pain Jessie tries to clean up. And her medical bills have been outrageous because of the hit and run. And our health insurance is balking at paying, saying the driver's insurance should pay. Yes, they should. But it was a hit and run, we don't know teh driver so we can't get him to pay. Since it didn't involve our car, our auto insurance won't pay. So it is filed with the health insurance.</p><p></p><p>We CHOOSE to homeschool our daughter rather than have her attend the local school. She would have to walk to the bus at 6:50 AM while it is still pitch black. This is how she got hit by a car. The school will NOT send a bus down our road. The electric co will NOT put up street lights. I cannot afford to put up lights up and down our road. And the neighbors would have a cow if I did because each house would have to pay the cost of the electricity.</p><p></p><p>We CHOOSE to live out in the country. We like it here. NO homeowner's association with rules about when to put the trash out. One house we looked at said you could only put the garbage out after 6 am and had to get the cans in by 10 am. If not it was a $30 fine. They even had rules about the color you could paint the house.</p><p></p><p>I CHOOSE not to deal with that. I CHOOSE to spend more on the kids' education than on fancy landscaping or expensive clothes or even having a maid. My kids devour books by the dozen. We buy them used, new, anywhere we find an interesting one. My kids had 4 times the "expected" vocabulary at every age. thank you is taking the accelerated reader tests on books like the Harry Potter and Narnia series. He just finished third grade. They are eighth grade books. Next year they are bringing the high school AR books into the school because he is ready for them. No one else in the school is using them yet. Not even any 5th graders.</p><p></p><p>We make choices to not have expensive cars. My car doesn't even start right now. I chose to fix the toilet plumbing rather than buy a new battery. It is in next months budget, but not this one. </p><p></p><p>Not everyone can choose the fancy lifestyle. When I had my seizure the EMTs had to come in and get me. I was unconscious and my family was worried more about me than about the house. I am glad the EMT's gave 110&#37; and while they saw the house they still treated me respectfully. The doctor didn't, but she is a horrible person and a worse doctor. She refused to let the staff call my regular doctor because they had clashed about a patient before and she knew my doctor would be angry with her.</p><p></p><p>Thank you for realizing you made judgements, and that they were wrong. Thank you for ADMITTING it. It is HARD to come to a group and admit you were wrong. Esp to a group like this who has had many times where we were judged unfairly.</p><p></p><p>So Thank you! Keep on realizing what you are doing and making changes when you realize you make a mistake!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 287443, member: 1233"] I appreciate your post. It brought issues to life that many of us face daily. I read it and appreciate and admire the guts it takes to come into a forum like this and admit you screwed up. You are human and sometimes we make judgement calls we shouldn't. So we learn and try not to make that mistake again. I am lower in income partly because of our choices. We CHOOSE the most expensive insurance option husband's company offers. We choose it because it has the best mental health coverage and Asperger's is considered a mental health issue by the insurance companies. I am also disabled. We have to take that into account. I can't work. It isn't a choice. I can't even pick up the house for 15 minutes without spending a day or two in agonizing pain. My house DOES have trash on the floor. When I can I sit on the floor with a garbage bag and pick up what I can. The kids do what they can. Even in pain Jessie tries to clean up. And her medical bills have been outrageous because of the hit and run. And our health insurance is balking at paying, saying the driver's insurance should pay. Yes, they should. But it was a hit and run, we don't know teh driver so we can't get him to pay. Since it didn't involve our car, our auto insurance won't pay. So it is filed with the health insurance. We CHOOSE to homeschool our daughter rather than have her attend the local school. She would have to walk to the bus at 6:50 AM while it is still pitch black. This is how she got hit by a car. The school will NOT send a bus down our road. The electric co will NOT put up street lights. I cannot afford to put up lights up and down our road. And the neighbors would have a cow if I did because each house would have to pay the cost of the electricity. We CHOOSE to live out in the country. We like it here. NO homeowner's association with rules about when to put the trash out. One house we looked at said you could only put the garbage out after 6 am and had to get the cans in by 10 am. If not it was a $30 fine. They even had rules about the color you could paint the house. I CHOOSE not to deal with that. I CHOOSE to spend more on the kids' education than on fancy landscaping or expensive clothes or even having a maid. My kids devour books by the dozen. We buy them used, new, anywhere we find an interesting one. My kids had 4 times the "expected" vocabulary at every age. thank you is taking the accelerated reader tests on books like the Harry Potter and Narnia series. He just finished third grade. They are eighth grade books. Next year they are bringing the high school AR books into the school because he is ready for them. No one else in the school is using them yet. Not even any 5th graders. We make choices to not have expensive cars. My car doesn't even start right now. I chose to fix the toilet plumbing rather than buy a new battery. It is in next months budget, but not this one. Not everyone can choose the fancy lifestyle. When I had my seizure the EMTs had to come in and get me. I was unconscious and my family was worried more about me than about the house. I am glad the EMT's gave 110% and while they saw the house they still treated me respectfully. The doctor didn't, but she is a horrible person and a worse doctor. She refused to let the staff call my regular doctor because they had clashed about a patient before and she knew my doctor would be angry with her. Thank you for realizing you made judgements, and that they were wrong. Thank you for ADMITTING it. It is HARD to come to a group and admit you were wrong. Esp to a group like this who has had many times where we were judged unfairly. So Thank you! Keep on realizing what you are doing and making changes when you realize you make a mistake! [/QUOTE]
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