1). A neurological disability which ignorant people believe means the same thing as mentally retarded.
While it's true that people with severe cases of CP can have mental retardation, many people with milder cases of CP have average to above average intelligence. Additionally, because many people with mild hemiplegic (one sided) CP have visual/spatial processing and math and/or language learning disabilities, IQ tests are often very inaccurate measures of a child with Hemiplegic CP's intelligence as they typically measure bilateral thinking patterns. People with spastic CP often have one very strong and dominant hemisphere in the undamaged side of the brain, and one weaker brain hemisphere. This results in one side or limb (s) of the body being weaker and lacking in the ability to accomplish fine motor skills. If the right side of the brain is affected, then the left side of the body will be affected, and if the left side of the brain is affected, the right side of the body will be weaker.
Despite having this disability, people with mild Spastic Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy often live normal, relatively independent lives. They can learn to drive (a bit slower than the average kid), get a good career, and be happy and successful people.
While it's true that people with severe cases of CP can have mental retardation, many people with milder cases of CP have average to above average intelligence. Additionally, because many people with mild hemiplegic (one sided) CP have visual/spatial processing and math and/or language learning disabilities, IQ tests are often very inaccurate measures of a child with Hemiplegic CP's intelligence as they typically measure bilateral thinking patterns. People with spastic CP often have one very strong and dominant hemisphere in the undamaged side of the brain, and one weaker brain hemisphere. This results in one side or limb (s) of the body being weaker and lacking in the ability to accomplish fine motor skills. If the right side of the brain is affected, then the left side of the body will be affected, and if the left side of the brain is affected, the right side of the body will be weaker.
Despite having this disability, people with mild Spastic Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy often live normal, relatively independent lives. They can learn to drive (a bit slower than the average kid), get a good career, and be happy and successful people.
I used to be angry with God, and cry out to him why I was born with mild Hemiplegic Spastic Cerebral Palsy; why I couldn't be like every other girl my age. Now, I realize that being "normal" often makes people more ignorant and thoughtless. They often take the little things in life for granted and may make fun of those who are different from the norm. Really though, it's those who aren't born perfect that have the most creativity, passion, and determination.
by AliceKettle November 09, 2014
A TV show on AMC based off the comic books by Robert Kirkman. It used to be really good until Scott Gimple took over as show-runner from Frank Daranbout in S4, it became increasingly obvious that the only main characters who would never die were Rick, Carl, and Daryl (who serves no purpose anymore and doesn't even exist in the comics, but they decided to make him a deuteragonist to Rick on the show because he's on a bunch of t-shirts at Hot Topic that threaten to boycott the show if he dies), and every time they killed a main character off the show it was at the worst possible moment ever because they finally seemed to be getting the happiness they worked so hard for, they were on the brink of having great new character development, and/or they faked their death by hiding them under a fucking dumpster, only to kill them off a few episodes later for real, anyway. It's been sadistic manipulation ever since sometime in S3, frankly it started becoming annoying and old when Hershel got killed off midway through S4, and by the time they got to Glenn's death it just felt like too much of cheap, obnoxious, and cruel shit storytelling.
A fan of The Walking Dead: Did you see Glenn's death on The Walking Dead last night?
Me: Yeah, that was such bullshit storytelling! No wonder so many fans quit! Glenn was the last character that I actually liked enough to keep up with this stupid show. It should have been Daryl. I'm so done with TWD. It's so predictable. Literally everyone will die, except for Rick, Carl, and Daryl. It's the same old story over and over again. Every time things seem to be looking better, they get worse, and Negan's introduction and how the writers treated Glenn so disrespectfully, like a cheap plot device for death, just marked the end of a show that I used to know and love. I'm just so tired of it all. Glenn's death drained what little remaining emotional investment that I had left in this show, so I quit.
Me: Yeah, that was such bullshit storytelling! No wonder so many fans quit! Glenn was the last character that I actually liked enough to keep up with this stupid show. It should have been Daryl. I'm so done with TWD. It's so predictable. Literally everyone will die, except for Rick, Carl, and Daryl. It's the same old story over and over again. Every time things seem to be looking better, they get worse, and Negan's introduction and how the writers treated Glenn so disrespectfully, like a cheap plot device for death, just marked the end of a show that I used to know and love. I'm just so tired of it all. Glenn's death drained what little remaining emotional investment that I had left in this show, so I quit.
by AliceKettle April 18, 2018