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Yeah, that was such a Bryan Fuller death.

They also showed that the other students are very respectful - when Kenneth was talking to them, they said "Is this JJ asking, or Kenneth asking?" - so when they hear Kenneth talk, they would automatically assume it is JJ, so he seamlessly integrates into the school environment, so Kenneth is working very well as his aide. I'm pretty sure that made like no sense, but whatever, I am posting it.

Welp, now I want Janet to fight for Jason to stay in the Good Place. The delivery of retroactively had me cracking up. And, yeah, Bambadjan was great, I would definitely not mind him popping up from time to time - even if it is just in the background.

I was wondering the whole time why they weren't soaking in sweat after 15 minutes of being out there. My cousin has a wedding this summer on one of the hottest days of the year - I think it was 108 when the humidity was factored in. After 15 minutes of sitting out there, we all had a nice sheen of sweat. After a few hours of going in between indoors and out, we were all damp. But in Hollywood, nobody gets even a bit of sweat in 110 dry heat? Nobody even drinks some water?

That's what it reminded me of!

That episode was hilarious. I kept coughing because I was laughing so hard (...Or I was coughing because i have been coughing all day, and the laughter made more coughs) :P

That was such a good episode. I felt bad for the principal, but I think she'd (or she will, if they revisit this in the future) understand when it is explained.

Oh yeah, I am just saying - it has only been.. what, 2-3 months at most since Kenneth became JJ's aide? Takes a little while to break a habit you have had for over a decade. But honestly, that van is so large, I think it is that she has to park in the handicapped space. I would imagine they have a handicapped plate, as that van is the only vehicle they have that can transport JJ.

I'm guessing it is the size of the van. The parking lot looked pretty small - so if she had parked in any other space, she would've been double parked. My mother works at a court and whenever she gets someone in who gets a ticket for parking in a handicapped spot, they usually have an excuse like "Well, it's my grandma's car and she has the placard, so I put it up! She said I could!" The judge doesn't take that as an excuse :P Maya didn't ask for the special treatment in the pilot when the cops decided to not pull her over. I don't think the worst should be assumed about her - at worst, she milks her situation a bit, but not to the level where you should assume the worst. I used a wheelchair for the first time this past October at New York Comic Con - made things so much easier than walking around for hours on end - I couldn't really push the chair, so I was lucky to have my brother with me. I think in this case, even if the van could fit in a regular space - remember, Maya has been doing everything for JJ for 16 years, so she might just pull into the handicapped spot every time without realizing it.

That bugged me too. However, I was operating under the same thought process as @Crs97 - because that is the only way to think it through that makes sense

The case manager who did that also refused to document discrimination against me by multiple teachers and held an illegal IEP meeting (Never sent notice of the meeting to my parents and then held it without them because "It'll all just be the same!" - didn't even call my parents to tell them there was an IEP meeting. My mom worked right down the road, she could've just told her boss and spent 45 minutes at the school!). She eventually retired "due to disability" a few weeks after the district settled with a parent after they filed for Due Process, but before the hearing was held. The board of ed meeting minutes said "in excess of $100,000" was set aside after legal fees. My suggestion would be to try some of those respite hours - better to get him used to other people helping him sooner than later. Maybe the first few times just spend some time in the backyard or something so you can help if you are needed.

Yeah, people like to make assumptions based on how someone looks - or a label on an IEP - or something like that. Not the best way for a teacher or someone to judge somebody. I had an evaluation in early 11th grade - it was my first since 1st grade (My district liked to violate IDEA!). I got there and my IEP case manager was doing the educational assessment. She says "Okaaaaaaayyyyyyy, don't worrrrryyyyyy if this is haaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrdddddddddddd. You donnnnnn't haaaave toooo anssweerrrrrr everyyyyyyy questionnnnnnnn." She stretched the words like that and said it very slowly. She looked shocked when I answered a whole lot of the questions correctly - my scores on the vocabulary and more word-focused stuff were pretty high - above high school level (Last time I had a neuropsych eval, my Verbal scores were, for the most part, at or above a post-graduate level and he said that I should take the LSATs "for fun" because he said I would probably score incredibly high on them). This woman was in every one of my IEP meetings since I had entered HS. I was in AP classes (Which she tried her hardest to try to make me not sign up for them, because "Students on IEPs can't take AP classes!" which was the sequel to "Students on IEPs can't take Honors classes!"), so it isn't like it was much of a surprise. I didn't really speak intelligibly until I was 5 - my mom could sort of understand me, my dad couldn't. A day where I would point at the fridge and grunt if I were hungry or thirsty was a good day. I apparently gave my mom a *lot* of black eyes when I was a toddler - that is how I got out my frustration. Yeah, I haven't figured out a way to correct the posts either - most forum systems like to make it intuitive to edit posts... this one is not.

It's okay - they know of no significant impact on life expectancy from this cancer (Though, not many young people with it, most get diagnosed near 60 - and this cancer was only discovered in 1985). It's incurable and kept in check with pills every week (So if my posting seems off on Thursday or Friday, that's why).

Marijuana? have latent nystagmus and left amblyopia. I have a unique set of disabilities - dysgraphia, ADHD-PI, fine and gross motor dysfunction, underdeveloped muscles, hyptonia, epilepsy, the two aforementioned visual issues, cognitive dysfunction secondary to seizure disorder and learning disability, and a variety of anxieties. They think the first three + the epilepsy may be caused by a very mild case of PVL (death of white matter - in my case, it is surrounding the corpus callosum). Had the PVL because i was born at 25 weeks. Absolutely - treatment varies within districts, all depends on the climate fostered by the administration.

I learned more about IDEA and the Social Security Act just from my experiences with it and reading chunks of the laws. The employment rate of people with disabilities is abysmal - and I feel horrible that I have joined the incredibly high percentage of unemployed people with disabilities (Not in a condescending way - I fully expected to be working by now... but life gets in the way).

My pediatrician was great about stuff like that. I ran into him last year at my oncologist - he sees him for hematological stuff. He was so sad when I told him I probably had a rare cancer. He read the piece of paper I gave him that my oncologist printed out about the cancer I could have a few time before giving it back (I ended up having an even rarer version of that cancer). I don't think it had a keyfob.

Yeah, I had three seizures that lasted a total of 1 hour 45 minutes. Before the seizure, I didn't really understand math - if I were asked "If you have one apple and I give you one apply, how many apples do you have?" I would answer correctly. If I were asked "What is one plus one?" I would have no idea what the answer was. After the seizure (1996), I started to understand math. The theory of my neurologist at the time is that I had a large buildup of electrical activity in the brain which led to some cognitive delays. I had no seizures until 2005, around puberty - puberty can affect people with epilepsy. With your son, it could be neuroplasticity of some kind - I just hope his seizures aren't too severe and they are able to keep them under control with medication (I have been on 9 anti-convulsants since 1996, which is apparently really unusual).

True, it was sort of dueling emotions. I think funny wins out in the end, though. Yeah, I get that conversation thing - happens to me all the time at doctors. My parents have to drive me and they usually come into the appointment with me and sometimes I ask a question, then the doctor looks at my parent and tells them the answer.

I have not heard good things about Texas with regards to students with disabilities. NJ is sort of... interesting - we have the highest autism rate in the nation - so, a lot of schools have been started over the last decade to help with it. Some are private schools - but one is a magnet school started by a few counties banding together - it covers students 3-21. However, spots in this magnet are coveted - they usually try to have students stay in their home districts as long as possible, so they can take the most severe cases. Where coverage can be lacking is learning disabilities. There's a school two towns over that is a private school for students with emotional disabilities. Like 20 miles south of me is a school that is for students with multiple disabilities. There's a school for students with autism near it, too. Districts here try to ship out the most severe cases of whatever as quick as they can, they'd rather pay the cost of OOD placement than try to help the students. They tried to pressure my parents when I was in PreK and K to get me sent to the school for students with multiple disabilities (Which costs something like $85,000 a year) because they did not think their teachers could help me. First grade rolled around, I had a massive seizure, then I started to make gains academically.

I was thinking about that too. Maybe she was trying to address it by ignoring it - students would see no interest from the teacher, then the initial joiners would depart. She didn't dress revealingly, which is important for a young teacher. The way she addressed JJ while ignoring Kenneth when Kenneth was singing annoyed me a bit too - but as a new teacher, she might've been erring on the side of being as nice as possible to JJ - she can always apologize to Kenneth later.

Woodbridge is a pretty good town - their schools are okay. Their dispensary has the most strains out of any other dispensary in the state - it is a bright green building near a car dealership.

I liked tonight's episode - my DVR cut off when it was saying when the show will return - It said "Speechless will retur--" then the recording ended. Evil DVR.

Anyone else think the Lucy character might be better as an anthropologist - then she'd be able to give the team a crash course on how to act in the time they have to go to - give her some historical knowledge, maybe she got a masters in American History or something

Dr. K would be a very cordial zombie doctor.

Oh my god I was thinking the same thing about Lucy looking like Little Red Riding Hood.