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The Mental Illness

Of Bill Harris

So what else has happened in the last three months ? Well, I was in a McDonalds in Fairfield one morning, being my usually friendly (appropriately friendly) self. In line with me were a woman with her husband and their young boy, and the youngster was an energetic little tyke, bounding and zipping around in healthy boyish fashion. In a friendly and social way, I quipped, "Quite the healthy and energetic boy you have there. Be careful that the teachers don't diagnose him with DDT or ADD or whatever it is." Turns out she's a special ed teacher and the boy, indeed, is DDT or ADD or Dyslexic or something. I rolled my eyes and sighed a sigh that could be heard round the world (but I did this only in my head, as I am really quite a polite and social and appropriate person, and, I promised no more bad behavior - in this case, I was avoiding even the appearance of bad behavior). I posed as the friendly, but ignorant, doubter, willing to have his opinion changed. In a friendly manner, I asked if she could please explain to me why it is only letters and numbers that Dyslexics get jumbled, and not everything else. She ignored this question (or maybe she's Dyslexic, too, and thought I asked something else) and responded how brilliant Dyslexics must be to be able to figure out how to learn to read and write (while, I suppose, the letters and numbers are jumping around and doing somersaults like they had DDT or ADD or something). Well, that stumped me (or, at least, I pretended it did. See, I TOLD YOU I'm polite and appropriate. You didn't believe me, did you ?). I shrugged and nodded in agreement and agreed, "Yes...Yes, they must be quite brilliant to learn to read and write. Yes, yes indeed." Heros, no doubt. (I only THOUGHT that last line. I was too polite to SAY it)." And, indeed, I was somewhat stunned by the brilliance of her logic. I mean, her ability to make logic do her bidding - to jump around and do somersaults just like the letters and numbers in a Dyslexic's head ! It brought to mind an elephant joke that goes something like this: JOKER "Why do elephants wear red slippers ?" JOKEE "I don't know. Why DO elephants wear red slippers ?" JOKER "So they can hide in cherry trees." Perplexed pause. JOKER "Have you ever seen an elephant hiding in a cherry tree ?" JOKEE "No. No, to be honest, I haven't." JOKER "See. It works !" ******* The Myth of ADHD and Other Learning Disabilities ******* The Learning Disorders Hoax ******* And More on the Myth ******* You see, this is the kind of fantasy they make up in the special ed departments of education departments in public schools. This is how irrational their thinking is. It's sheer fantasy, Disney stuff. But, the Disney people KNOW their creations are fantasy, and we know it too. But these special ed people actually BELIEVE the fantasies they make up - and that's a mental illness ! To believe that fantasies are real and to call real and true events fantasies - that's a mental illness. People with such beliefs are not in touch with reality. Bill Harris is one such mentally ill person. He's the head of the special education dept at the education dept at Sac State (or was until recently), and I'll tell you more about his fantasies and his mental illness later. Are you a Critical Thinker ? Read this and find out !
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