tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6825243.post8442802663545892685..comments2024-01-06T07:53:11.832-08:00Comments on disabled Christianity: "Not playing with a full deck"Jeff McNairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10029386598033932429noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6825243.post-78478388970994214112010-02-25T18:51:14.694-08:002010-02-25T18:51:14.694-08:00DiChrista EDU 341 San Bernardino campus.
This is ...DiChrista EDU 341 San Bernardino campus.<br /><br />This is all to familiar when dealing with anything that is foreign to us. People including myself get very dismissive with people when we are not familiar or just choose to turn a blind eye a closed ear or a heart with a hole in it, and that is with dealing with "normal" people who supposedly are playing with a full deck. It is just like dealing with your on child who may get out in public and make you and everyone else think that they have absolutely no "home training." Do we become dismissive with them when we know how we have taught them. It is a constant reminder that all households are not ran the same and discipline is not given out in the same way does that mean how someone does something is wrong? The answer is no. This is a prime example of how people should reach out and try to find out what ails people. It seems that us "normal" people who don't have social problems or mental disabilities to spinning our wheels getting nowhere, when we all could take the time to spin our wheels on something meaningful and lives up to the service that we should be providing as commissioned by Jesus! We all should open up our ears,eyes, and heart.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08903191724688577314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6825243.post-23806738471916723552010-02-18T19:27:21.872-08:002010-02-18T19:27:21.872-08:00I find that this title is very interesting because...I find that this title is very interesting because I don’t think I’ve ever related this to disabled people. I have generally used this in reference to what most would call “normal” individuals. If a particular person doesn’t complete something and they have all of the directions and tools to figure it out, we say they are not playing with a full deck of cards. The cards, from my viewpoint represent someone who is not using the full capacity of their knowledge. For this reason, I don’t really equate this statement with disabled people. They may in fact be using the full capacity of their knowledge yet to the outside world looking in, we feel like they can try harder, or maybe they are just content with where they are.<br /><br />It’s very interesting because in your blog you say that it is not the person speaking, it is the disability. This is true yet it makes me laugh in a sense because sometimes they are not “speaking at all. They are at times antisocial and internalize other issues that may be going on in their lives. Sometimes these people are highly intelligent yet they don’t know how to express themselves. When they do express themselves it comes off as aggression or frustration. <br /><br />I think it takes a very loving individual in order to understand those who have emotional problems. You have to have the gift of patience. Because you can’t always be sure of the reaction you may get from a person who struggles with this disability, you have to understand enough to know that if they have an “episode” you can handle it in a mature manner without harming yourself or the individual. Respond in love. <br /><br />I truly agree with Luke 12:48. I think that whatever gifts, intellectual or physical, we are given; we need to be accountable for. Accountability begins first with ourselves and then extends outward. We need to all embrace the fact that we are the keepers of our brothers.tljacksonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6825243.post-22244415442426888762010-01-07T09:23:58.551-08:002010-01-07T09:23:58.551-08:00As a teacher of only eight years i come to realize...As a teacher of only eight years i come to realize that many students that come my way arent dealing with a whole deck of cards but I becasue their parents did not offer them a full deck of cards. I as I am sure many other teachers would agree that students are what their parents create and its hard sometimes to come to peace with the fact that not all people in this world are blessed with a full deck. I feel I was blessed becasue I have always been able to communicate and be friends with some students who do not hold many aces. sometimes its just takes the right person to make such a little difference. On my campus many of the challenged students are put into my class for PE and their main teacher always comes and ask me how I do it, becasue they have them all day and they cant seem to reach them! It makes me feel so good that these students can't wait to come to my class everyday. I rarely have any proplems and now if the teacher has some issues with the students in class she will send a couple of them to me so I can talk to them and then they seem to relax. I think more people need to take some time becasue everyone can earn some more cards!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com