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When have you used hope as an ally in boosting your self confidence?
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Name: Sandi
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Date: 28 Jun 2001
Time: 00:40:33
1. I wish that my mom would stop dragging me to every doctor in the free world trying to "treat" my Asperger's Syndrome (which, by the way, we don't even know if I have).
2. I wish that people would stop teasing me for being different.
3. I wish that people would stop calling me "You poor thing" and calling me "brave," ergo making me toss my cookies.
4. I wish people would stop treating me like a baby just because I am disabled.
5. I wish my grandmother would stop trying to run my life, while saying that it's "for my own good." I'll decide what's "for my own good" -- not her.
6. I wish people would stop trying to solicit the disabled to join a church. Maybe I like being an atheist, but people are too obsessed with getting to heaven and they think disabled people are easy marks to get money out for their church (or should I say cult?).
7. I wish my mom would stop threatening guardianship of me every time I don't do something she wants me to do.
8. I wish my mom would stop choosing what clothes she thinks I should buy and making me buy them. I'm 23 years old for God's sake!
9. I wish I had a little more say in my own life, which I'm never allowed to have because my mom treats me like an ignorant child.
10. I wish my mom didn't worship my "normal" sister while saying I have every mental ailment in the world because I am a little excitable.
11. I wish my doctors would stop treating me like a guinea pig on which they can try every medical "breakthrough" because they have my mom's say-so, which shouldn't even be valid. (So far I have spent 10 hours pushing levers and making up stupid stories because my mom put me in some study).
12. I wish I weren't treated any differently than my siblings.
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