duck_jb

I just want to say that Portlandia has totally tainted (in the very best of ways) the running commentary in my head. I now try to slip in lines and references into daily conversation, even if I am the only one who gets them, just to amuse myself. My questions is, what was the "Put a Bird On It" and Jennifer Lawson (thebloggess.com) issue like from your side? Because the ending of that whole deal... awesome and you got another fan over here for life.

I sometimes think that the discussion can be not how being Canadian defines u/m_atwood , but how we as Canadians are defined by reading u/m_atwood 's books and feeling those stories no matter where they're set as a story of "ours". Just as Tom Thompson is painted on us all as Canadians, the work of Ms. Atwood is written into our collective identity.

Actually in my part of the world they mainstream the kids. So the children stay with their similar age peers but just add more and more in classroom support until quite a bit latter into their school career when daily life skills classes (how to take the bus, how to groccery shop etc) take up more time, with the goal of having the kids as independant as possible at grade 12 graduation.

Hang in there. The hormone for clears and the sun comes out.

To be honest the two people I spoke to about their strong negative feelings revolved around feeling it simplified it too much, the other seemed really angry and offended by it. The clearest understanding I could get from her seemed to be she felt that it said she couldnt FORCE her way back to something more like the experience she imagined. For my dime store psychology I think its because she was really, really angry still about her childs very recent diagnosis and hadnt accepted that her family is where it is and she couldnt just a work harder/will her reality to be different. I wonder now, a year latter after the final diagnosis if she wouldnt look at it differently.