posted January 05, 2010 09:14 PM         

Why?

PS. Whilst growing up I was called Miss Magoo, vision being about 20/3,000.
Called Quasimodo, being hunchbacked.
And worse.
Childhood and teen years were not pleasant.
I had hoped becoming an adult, that things would change.
Nope.
Even more ridicule and all from adults.

posted January 05, 2010 09:18 PM         

It made me sick.

posted January 05, 2010 09:21 PM         

Edit to add:
You are so right here:

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Some people are just disgusting or too immature to realize what someone else may be going through

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posted January 05, 2010 09:30 PM         

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A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them
fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit
was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The
two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit
with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop,
that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took
heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down
and died.

The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again,
the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He
jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the
other frogs said, "Did you not hear us?" The frog explained to
them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the
entire time.

This story teaches two lessons:

1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging
word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it
through the day.

2. A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes
to kill them.

Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your
path. The power of words... it is sometimes hard to understand
that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak
words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in
difficult times. Special is the individual who will take the time
to encourage another.

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posted January 05, 2010 09:35 PM         

I too went to YouTube looking for somethings to cheer me up.
All it did for the most part was to push me down deeper into depression.
Seems I (and others similarly afflicted) represent perfect choices to get fodder to make fun of and jokes about.
I feel shy about myself and do not want to go in public, even on the rare times I am physically able.
I began offline to try to make friends with folks who have handicaps.
Sadly and to my utter shock...
even they make big ha ha about things they do not have or are.
I thought they of all people would be more compassionate of others.
Nope.

posted January 05, 2010 09:44 PM         

Thank God for animals. People don't often make sense.

posted January 05, 2010 10:11 PM         

Anyway, glad to hear youve got some felines around to give you love and keep you company at least. Hopefully things start to turn around very soon.

posted January 06, 2010 01:31 AM         

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Unattractiveness
Dyslexia
Stuttering

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I knew I would see the word dyslexia appear after I stared the Dogzlaa thread

I'm virtually all of the above on many occassions.

My partner always laughs at the way I mix my words up.

posted January 06, 2010 01:33 AM         

And such insensitivity or meanness actually gets even worse than that. For example, I know someone who was raped so brutally that she had to be sewed back together, and anyone who looked at her knew she'd been brutalized (black & blue all over, needing major medical intervention to fix her appearances) and when she went to her dentist yet again to continue to have her teeth fixed from her dental injuries of the rape, the dentist thought he was being funny as he jovially said (also in front of everyone in the waiting room) something along the lines of, "Been raped anymore lately?"

posted January 06, 2010 04:41 AM         

On the other side of the street sometimes offence is taken where none is meant (and I have come across people who strike me as being pathologically humourless). But I have to balance the Scales, I am Libran Moon.

posted January 06, 2010 12:29 PM         

while it is certainly CRUELER to mock those with real afflictions i am pretty sure MOST of us were subjected to the humiliating kind of humour LEXX is talking about in the op...i am a pretty normal person, neither ugly nor knockdown gorgeous, no handicaps; however i was born with a white stripe in my hair and as a child i was always "sturdy" - i am built that way, though actually fairly petite i will never be as narrow as a model no matter how little flesh covers me, and as a child i was strong and solid. i got called "kate smith" (some of you will remember her), "mack truck", flicka (ditto), skunk, badger, and at 13 when it really hurt one of my "good friends" turned on me in public and called me a "bowling pin" just to keep in with the "cool" ones who thought me uncool.

i was kicked out of my first band because i have steadfastly refused to try to "fit in" all my life, even when "fitting in" demanded being a rebel...

without minimizing the harm done to people who already have two full platesful of challenges, i just wanted to say i know how you feel, and pretty much everyone is subjected to similar treatment whatever "package" they come in! and for the SUPER gorgeous, there is much paranoia about whether people actually like them for anything but their beauty...

and most of it is down to FEAR of the unusual, fear of "that" happening to them (the perps) - and the jokes are more in the order of the nervous laughter we have all experienced taken to a belligerent level.

posted January 07, 2010 06:23 PM         

you should not worry about whats others tihnk of you. just as long as your think your an ok person then thats what you are an ok person.

i have been teased as well not much now. but i know how it feels and its not so great.

posted January 07, 2010 07:01 PM         

Do some people that are challenged in life discriminate against those with less obvious challenges?

Everyone has challenges.

Women
People with myopia
Men with low income
Men who are short
Vegans
People with addiction to smoking
People with uneven hips
Children without clean water
People living in a legislative dominated culture
Those that don't kill spiders (the emotional turmoil one goes through when someone else kills a spider)

Describing people as narrow-minded and juvenile is 'name-calling'.

Preventing people from laughing at their own challenges is a form of control.

posted January 07, 2010 07:10 PM         

I'm being honest here. If there was a problem, why not just tell me, if you felt uncomfortable, rather than throwing the word "dyslexia" in with old-age, pain, illness, etc.....

I know a jab when I see one

posted January 07, 2010 08:07 PM         

Polo C directed a comment personally at me, I responded.

Your thread was created as a result of my thread and you have a right to do so of course. But still, your thread is linked to mine by thought and philosophy.

Had I not responded to you, I would be discriminating against Polo C.

posted January 08, 2010 12:05 AM         

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My partner always laughs at the way I mix my words up.

I even make jokes about my scars left over from my facial injury. Hey, why not! I'll definitely be dead within 40 years so I'm leaving laughing.....

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Well I had just suffered a breakdown and was hospitalized for about a month, and on suicide watch.
Except for when my pets died, I really had never cried until I was eighteen. Even when beaten bloody as a child, no crying.
I laughed. Always laughing.
Class clown too! Thought if I made them laugh they would love me. Nope. Joke was on me.
So at eighteen I flipped! Not going into the details of that right now.
Yes, I learned to finally cry.
But almost all the laughing stopped.
It was not happiness laughing anyhow.
A few months later I was struck by a car and suffered permanent injury.
Betwixt both those events my view of things changed....for a few months.
Then I got caught in the spiral down again.
A few more near suicidal times.
It was not until I hit age 42 that I began to love and accept myself.
I am fine. No, I am not perfect, but I like me.
I know there are still folks making fun of me and others. There always will be.
There is nothing I can do about that.

However again, I just wonder why folks make unkind fun of others, and how it is even seen as comedy.

As to my pictures...LOL!
Very very very carefully posed. Not really how I looked/look. Not photogenic at all.

posted January 08, 2010 02:11 AM         

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Now that is truly sad. And are you really laughing or holding back the pain?

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My partner laughs and it doesn't bother me. In fact, I wonder how on earth do I mix up my words!!! I don't do it at work, only home. But then again, if I'm really self-conscious at work and think "Uh oh, I'm going to stumble", my words freeze and I can't find the words to say. My voice box also does a weird thing, by squeaking......

BUT amazingly (going off-track), I think my voice is connected to a pressure point in my shoulder which is connected to a calcium deficiency which is connected to a lack of the musical note E!!! (Info connections made by visiting Uni-versal Codes).

I could tie forgetting my words into childhood trauma. But who knows, I don't really dwell on it. And it doesn't happen on a daily basis.

posted January 08, 2010 02:18 AM         

Comedy has changed over the last few decades. I'm sure you have noticed that too. On "Ellen" today, Ellen cracked a joke about North Korea. Some people would find the irony in this, while others would be offended.

The question to ask, is what platform are they standing on?

Ellen's joke could be assumed to be aimed at the rigid politics of North Korea and their lack on interaction with the outside world.

Ellen's joke could offend those that feel compassionate toward the common people who live under the regime.

"Weekend at Bernie's" made me laugh so much, but we could get offended by the lack of respect toward deceased people.