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Nearly every group lives
under some variety of social tyranny. |
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Our helpers are missionaries for conventionality. Even when our disabilities are invisible, our unconventionality is likely to betray us, somehow. |
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Here is one picture of
helping. |
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Here is another.
Pictures of helping
deserve a second look. The photo at right, from a cancer
camp, shows a helper offering her hand. He can see it coming. She cannot. He will, all his life, be
the real expert on what help he wants or doesn't. He will learn: (a) that not all help is helpful, (b) that he must find graceful ways to decline even ill-conceived help, and (c) that gratitude is required in any event. |
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continued in the print or audiocassette versons of Mouth #57, January 2000 |
Link to where you can buy this issue in our online Attitude Catalog Store. |
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To read a Declaration of Independence from contaminated help, click here. |