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RidingTheBusWithMySister.HP.txt
I guess i've seen the Hallmark Movie,
some time back, before getting into looking at
Autism...
But not something i can't study/ dissect
(sp?) take apart, and look how smart i am,
see i can do better than an acclaimed author...
Beth's writing style, with CamelCase,
smiley faces, in bit circular letters like O,
cute stickers, and a bunch of girlie stuff,
plus HollyWood, Disney Characters,
Tweetie Bird t shirt...
Her dress in bright colors, look at me,
while claiming problems on the road being seen?
When most of it's look at me...
In the eye(s), as Rober(t)son
(author's brother Running with Scissors)
YouBetterNotCryBySPOILEDAugustenBurroughs
DryAmemoirByLUSHAugustenBurroughs
lookmeintheeyemylifewithaspergersByJohnElderRobison
So many levels of things going on...
Self Advocacy, as a political thing,
lobbying, instead of can speak for self,
in Annual care plan/ treatment review,
which starts out most of this,
her birthday/XMas Hanukkah (sp?) present,
is a year of bus riding with her sister,
which turns into a ride each month,
every few weeks, as she has a life,
though mostly work,
having a problem with her live in boyfriend,
broke up with Sam,
which isn't his real name,
the preface, on an updated version says,
and some other things,
names changed, besides Beth
and Rachel Simon?
The Arc of US is part of this,
and time frame is some time ago,
i'm wondering if they are contemporaries,
and seeing the other sides,
Geraldo Rivera doing an expose on
WillowBrook? state institution
feces covered walls, people naked,
and other abuses/neglect in the institutionalized
system(s), which
various things later are mentioned,
including Olmstead,
Mental Retardation is the time frame,
and name calling, and things as a kid
interwoven into the story,
so something in today's narrative/ time
reading in the now, and goes back,
so riding the buses,
chapters for each month of the year,
starting in January,
likely calendar and fiscal year,
with a treatment plan,
a clinical team, 3 people,
a supervisor/ team lead,
from the agency that oversees it,
and two other workers, one an aide,
and another something else,
all women, and two clients, if you include
the writer/ family, which increasingly
the system may, though she does to a conference
and is the only one, really, until she writes
about her sister, riding buses (and the title
isn't plural, so what of that mistake
miss perfect?)
And the problems in the family,
her mother and the divorce,
father, an academic finds another
woman in the halls, a professor,
and eventually leaves,
while the mother/ ex-wife has 4 children
and starts trying to date again,
moves up in the world, or over,
and goes weekends to her mother's
in New Jersey,
while the locations have been changed,
and names have been changed,
except the two main characters,
which makes things difficult to figure out,
so while claiming to be helping and trying
to be a good sister,
after things like going to collect money
for a charity, their retarded sister,
and collecting a fair amount,
then saying they don't want to live there...
and ending up moving...
But she finally says she hates her sister,
which after not getting a towel,
for showering/ bathing, while taking time off her
busy career life, no personal life to speak of,
not ready, and broke up with the guy,
Sam later Hal. in the appendages (sp?),
only some of which i've finished,
the last clinical one, not yet, a few more
pages, up to 10, left...
Anyways, it's cruel in parts,
and the three big questions,
all about sex, really,
one of the difficult topics,
as Beth ends up with a BoyFriend
from another group home nearby,
after living with family,
and that not working out,
she'd snuck out of the house,
and found missing a few times,
risks are considered,
and all in language of the bigger
sister, not the older,
just a little bit,
twins like on one month a year,
when their birth month matches,
when really a year apart,
or 9 months?
Many difficult parts of this,
while entertainment as a movie,
with Rosie O'Donnell (sp?) playing
Beth and someone else, name forgotten
(Andie McDowell WikiPedia doesn't mention
this movie on her page,
but does on the movie page)
playing Rachel/ the author sister,
college professor, and tutor,
and some others things, bookstore
person, doing signings, and readings,
but not making it very much,
i guess her parents saying they need
to take care of their sister, and
her father having problems doing that,
taking her sister, Beth to work,
(an online /) mail correspondence school,
some distance away, and driving with her,
she's got a captive audience,
and i guess that is part of the problem,
or a benefit for her,
but people get upset with her,
and other problems...
When the family can't take of her,
it's to a group home,
arranged by a letter to the Governor,
of Pennsylvania, when he's at his wits end,
talking of self arm, and had moved on
from just a take out once a month/ week
type non custodial dad, mother having
full time custody, but she's tired,
and depressed,
eventually dating again,
despite many problems the kids
don't like ti, at a certain age,
and wondering about other problems...
Rachel, had her sister waiting for her
at the bus stop and made fun of by the
others on the bus, dropping off,
and little disabled sister,
not talked to during school,
they had a truce ? agreement/ rule
unstated that they didn't acknowledge
each other, when the two Special Ed
classes TrainAble and EducAble,
described as self care, might learn
to bathe self, and EducAble
might learn to read/ write,
while the mother insists that her child
on the border, edge of one IQ wise
was going to read and write,
playing Bingo to help learn at home,
making the game fun, perhaps,
for some in the family...
While likely sibling rivalry
rears it's ugly head, many times,
let us count the ways:
start with those already mentioned
above
and do a Top Ten list,
like David LetterMan? late night shows?
Goofy, i guess,
but recurring themes are TV Shows,
and pop idols of the time,
many of which i don't care for,
female or otherwise, not the Black Sabbath,
(sp? beth?)
but Jimmy Hendrix gets in there somewhere(s),
and bike riding,
turns out her boyfriend Jesse like biking,
and is black, following along on a bike
after the bus, sometimes,
and does some of the races,
with awards and stuff, some made up,
likely participation, Special Olympics like,
and the author interviews him,
trying to go out to dinner,
lunch, taken out, when he doesn't read/ write
much at all, but does black belt karate,
from what reading his family had done
for him, instructing from books,
for something so physical, and anger
management, some problems with his eyes,
hit with a pole? stepped into one,
or maybe beaten up, some times had tried,
walking injured to the hospital but at the wrong
entrance, a colored only, or something
and not getting treatment, but calling police
for even being there, finally some one
takes to the ER, likely becoming blind
in the meantime, not in time?
And other mysteries,
Beth is losing her vision,
cataracts (sp??) or her eyelashes
are turned inwards, so they do surgery
on that, instead of replacing the cornea,
so medical care is a problem,
dental is a forget it can't put hands
in her mouth or get physical problems,
pushed away,
and other signs of abuse,
neglect, and modern terms,
for not getting care,
Family wise, will she do birth control,
the siblings and family responding to her
new boyfriend and what it takes
to care for a baby, and they decide for her,
by possibly exaggerating how difficult
it is to care of a baby full time,
while cute and want one,
talked into not wanting one,
and get sterilized,
while only some of the family is procreating
beyond the 4 siblings to start,
and this is during the sexual revolution,
careers and women working,
the momcfinally working in a library,
not fulfilled being a mom/ housewife and
the husband, finally divorcing,
and other things the kids remember...
But reciprocity (sp?) giving back/
or taking turns, or sharing,
(+ quid pro quo?)
and a paragraph with the Serenity Prayer,
typically used in 12StepPrograms
wondering if the author finally
gets into that, when not mentioning her own
drinking but her step father, turns out
from prison and a drunk, and abusive,
they leave the house, while Beth and the dog,
stuck with the exCon and mom, and
the dog, a quick get out of there,
never really explained to Beth,
she wasn't told,
and other instances of didn't protect
your sister, while mom goes off...
Older sister Laura (not real name)
and other abstractions make it near
impossible to figure out things,
most won't matter, but the Pennsylvania
and Amish and TurnPike,
wondering which cities
and places i might have known,
growing up, and now in real time,
with Ambler and UPitt Johnstown,
UPitt BradFord,
as AuTreat Autism conferences,
and places i've been in my life,
but not a lot, Philadelphia,
mentioned and some things in the middle
of the state, likely college town(s)
and big cities, enough to have a bus system,
like State College, idk 20k plus students?
So guessing, the fictional is
Philadelphia, where author lives and
commutes to PittsBurgh (sp? berg) ,
big enough to have a bus system,
back then, (passenger) trains mentioned
and a transit hub later,
While getting into the mostly White,
(wouldn't be around here)
bus drivers and changing demographics
of the city, Asian and Black
in the inner city and others further out,
Polish, Italian,
Amish mentioned, dark farms passed,
and lights there, but some farms,
and satellite, and going to the airport,
an Arab man, a driver, and their Top Ten
bestest bus drivers...
Wealth fame, wanted to be a pilot,
took classes, and other priorties,
taking Polaroid (sp?) self developing photos,
and how many buttons 2 increased down to 4,
talking and limits set by some drivers,
while used in training for some of what
the new drivers will be dealing with...
They only talk at stops,
so the flow of things,
safety for all the passengers,
and the seating arrangements,
the disabled seating parts of the bus
are up front, and turned side ways,
and other segregation type things...
Driving in bad weather is mentioned,
especially with her father, and storms,
ice, etc and having to stay over,
in hotel(s) sometimes, getting so bad...
Beth was missing for month(s),
and her grandmother mentioned
but barely her loss, as he mom
had gone off on a honeymoon,
and Beth was where?
while her dad had taken the other kids,
mom still had Beth?
and for months not knowing,
the dog left out back?
cold frozen food,
chained up, and forget his name,
but got as a puppy while just after
the divorce, might have helped,
somewhat playing scared of the dog
and trapped on the stairs,
while teasing the dog,
and kisses, hide the dog in the covers,
when come to say good night,
dog kisses too...
Some cuteness and female stuff,
not that guys don't do cute,
but limited tolerance for it sometimes...
But i've gone on too long
even my occasional typing has problems
besides the spelling and looking things up...
Needless to say not so effing brilliant,
solving the problems, seeing it another way,
and what else there is different,
Mental Health Silos aren't the same as
MR/ID/etc, nor substance abuse.
Beth give ExLax (stool softener)
to her group house mate(s),
and eventually has another place to live,
by herself, they don't like here there,
and despite visits by family,
she survives, kind of,
while other things not really said/
written, and talking over Beth a lot,
with her care providers,
but also trying to relate,
translating the book for her sister,
writing about her, but not with her,
some pages she had letters sent,
and exact like typed one,
CamelCase, maybe can't do the lower case R
or other things pronunciation,
learning words by the stresses,
like WhatEver,
not that it was a phrase back then,
but IDK, IDon'tKNow
stressing parts of that,
there are various things,
meanings to that,
really doesn't
doesn't want to,
can't budge her,
and various self determination things,
her treatment plan,
getting her to eat well,
consequences and understanding those,
change is slow,
Diet Pepsi,
eventually changes to apple/grape juice?
but that takes years,
Ding Dongs, and other things,
instead of vegetables,
which aren't eaten,
and she's getting large,
cholesterol, have to take meds,
a duck like walk feet out,
clothing child like,
but mental age, not one that makes much sense,
as a 7 year old adult having sex?
or what that age relation means...
The author eventually looks things up
and tires to separate the understanding
of just her sister, with others with the
DisEase?
Mild ReTardation?
and the distinctions there, from Arc
website, for her birthday,
being given coupons as gifts,
and how she forgets things,
no patience for waiting on buses,
knowing thee system by who's driving
and how many minutes she has to wait,
or to use a bathroom and what places
will and won't let her use a RestRoom...
Why and why not?
Must be a customer,
and encountering people on the street,
homeless, and/or creepy?
safe? someone giving her gifts
and she throws it away because he's not good,
while homeless isn't automatically bad,
combining her sense of people
with what others say,
and she's somehow not allowed to
fight for her rights,
and altercations with others,
besides the ExLax (tm ElseWhere) roommate,
incident, for days, when likely overdose,
but cruelty by the other party
not explained, nor gotten into...
So protecting self,
and harming by writing about,
the bus system does pretty well,
the drivers lounge, a place Beth goes into,
and people trying to make her work,
to give her meaning, while she's off
helping others all the time,
mostly talking off their ears,
while riding and her assigned seat,
she's stealing some old lady thinks,
she's out of her Zone,
and not paying $0.20
see #1 on the bus pass, a monthly
first in line and gets #1
but Zones are different?
and bus drivers mostly stick up for her,
she gets them coffee and gets a dollar
more than it cost, but delivery service...
When the book finally comes out,
she gets $1 for selling a book
which her sister gives to her...
She wants her friends to sign the book,
Jessie, boyfriend at the time,
signs, but doesn't read nor write,
however knows a lot about people,
and discrimination,
first hand...
They take trips to the grocery store,
an aide does that, and as payee,
while used to go in, now in and out
quickly, getting only Diet Pepsi
Ding Dongs, certain things she eats,
and not any vegetables,
a heavy load with sodas,
and some she buys and gives to drivers,
their brand and develops friendships that
way...
She babysits/ gets one of her driver's kids
off to school, waking people up,
as a human alarm clock,
caregiver, as an urge to find work,
and the social norms that really don't apply
well to DisABled life...
Summer Time comes and maybe try to work
some other way? Get the bus system to hire her?
Never worked...
Even working for fast food,
after sheltered workshops,
and even her father,
did some task, so badly the had to be checked,
but mostly drooled/fawning/ in love/
crush on the printer our back...
And the drivers get highlighted,
they teach things, and preach like to her,
and others, it's not all driving,
but during time stops, waiting to sync
up the schedule, as some delays expected,
a Comedian, from New York,
does a little skits/ songs/ routines,
but he's only part time,
after seen and done it all in NYC,
including some naked riders without any
money...
Mostly like a bartender, a counselor,
and some referred to get help,
someone following me, and maybe from
psychosis, but gets Detox help,
and eventually better...
The Golden Rule, some Jesus
reborn and take apart their lies.
and transplant saving one drivers life,
Hep B and couldn't do anything,
but someone donated and was selfless
while saved his life, not knowing
age, sex, color, etc selfless,
a bus up a hill not having the power
to make it up all the way,
some would get off and walk,
and meet them up the hill,
around the corner...
But mostly back to
i'm doing all this, for you
and she won't give me a towel,
WTF then abandoned, left bored
bawd,
or open the present i'm giving you now,
nope, coming to an end,
and needs a lot of conflict/ drama
to end things, most fights with drivers/
other passengers, etc...
He'll tell me, to stop,
but most won't, and it goes from there...
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RidingTheBusWithMySister.HP.txt
I guess i've seen the Hallmark Movie,
some time back, before getting into looking at
Autism...
But not something i can't study/ dissect
(sp?) take apart, and look how smart i am,
see i can do better than an acclaimed author...
Beth's writing style, with CamelCase,
smiley faces, in bit circular letters like O,
cute stickers, and a bunch of girlie stuff,
plus HollyWood, Disney Characters,
Tweetie Bird t shirt...
Her dress in bright colors, look at me,
while claiming problems on the road being seen?
When most of it's look at me...
In the eye(s), as Rober(t)son
(author's brother Running with Scissors)
YouBetterNotCryBySPOILEDAugustenBurroughs
DryAmemoirByLUSHAugustenBurroughs
lookmeintheeyemylifewithaspergersByJohnElderRobison
So many levels of things going on...
Self Advocacy, as a political thing,
lobbying, instead of can speak for self,
in Annual care plan/ treatment review,
which starts out most of this,
her birthday/XMas Hanukkah (sp?) present,
is a year of bus riding with her sister,
which turns into a ride each month,
every few weeks, as she has a life,
though mostly work,
having a problem with her live in boyfriend,
broke up with Sam,
which isn't his real name,
the preface, on an updated version says,
and some other things,
names changed, besides Beth
and Rachel Simon?
The Arc of US is part of this,
and time frame is some time ago,
i'm wondering if they are contemporaries,
and seeing the other sides,
Geraldo Rivera doing an expose on
WillowBrook? state institution
feces covered walls, people naked,
and other abuses/neglect in the institutionalized
system(s), which
various things later are mentioned,
including Olmstead,
Mental Retardation is the time frame,
and name calling, and things as a kid
interwoven into the story,
so something in today's narrative/ time
reading in the now, and goes back,
so riding the buses,
chapters for each month of the year,
starting in January,
likely calendar and fiscal year,
with a treatment plan,
a clinical team, 3 people,
a supervisor/ team lead,
from the agency that oversees it,
and two other workers, one an aide,
and another something else,
all women, and two clients, if you include
the writer/ family, which increasingly
the system may, though she does to a conference
and is the only one, really ,until she writes
about her sister, riding buses (and the title
isn't plural, so what of that mistake
miss perfect?)
And the problems in the family,
her mother and the divorce,
father, an academic finds another
woman in the halls, a professor,
and eventually leaves,
while the mother/ ex-wife has 4 children
and starts trying to date again,
moves up in the world, or over,
and goes weekends to her mother's
in New Jersey,
while the locations have been changed,
and names have been changed,
except the two main characters,
which makes things difficult to figure out,
so while claiming to be helping and trying
to be a good sister,
after things like going to collect money
for a charity, their retarded sister,
and collecting a fair amount,
then saying they don't want to live there...
and ending up moving...
But she finally says she hates her sister,
which after not getting a towel,
for showering/ bathing, while taking time off her
busy career life, no personal life to speak of,
not ready, and broke up with the guy,
Sam later Hal. in the appendages (sp?),
only some of which i've finished,
the last clinical one, not yet, a few more
pages, up to 10, left...
Anyways, it's cruel in parts,
and the three big questions,
all about sex, really,
one of the difficult topics,
as Beth ends up with a BoyFriend
from another group home nearby,
after living with family,
and that not working out,
she'd breaking out of the house,
and found missing a few times,
risks are considered,
and all in language of the bigger
sister, not the older,
just a little bit,
twins like on one month a year,
when their birth month matches,
when really a year apart,
or 9 months?
Many difficult parts of this,
while entertainment as a movie,
with Rosie O'Donnell (sp?) playing
Beth and someone else, name forgotten
(Andie McDowell though her wikipedia page
doesn't mention this movie)
playing Rachel/ the author sister,
college professor, and tutor,
and some others things, bookstore
person, doing signings, and readings,
but not making it very much,
i guess her parents saying they need
to take care of their sister, and
her father having problems doing that,
taking her sister, Beth to work,
(an online /) mail correspondence school,
some distance away, and driving with her,
she's got a captive audience,
and i guess that is part of the problem,
or a benefit for her,
but people get upset with her,
and other problems...
When the family can't take of her,
it's to a group home,
arranged by a letter to the Governor,
of Pennsylvania, when he's at his wits end,
talking of self arm, and had moved on
from just a take out once a month/ week
type non custodial dad, mother having
full time custody, but she's tired,
and depressed,
eventually dating again,
despite many problems the kids
don't like ti, at a certain age,
and wondering about other problems...
Rachel, had her sister waiting for her
at the bus stop and made fun of by the
others on the bus, dropping off,
and little disabled sister,
not talked to during school,
they had a truce ? agreement/ rule
unstated that they didn't acknowledge
each other, when the two Special Ed
classes TrainAble and EducAble,
described as self care, might learn
to bathe self, and EducAble
might learn to read/ write,
while the mother insists that her child
on the border, edge of one IQ wise
was going to read and write,
playing Bingo to help learn at home,
making the game fun, perhaps,
for some in the family...
While likely sibling rivalry
rears it's ugly head, many times,
let us count the ways:
start with those already mentioned
above
and do a Top Ten list,
like David LetterMan? late night shows?
Goofy, i guess,
but recurring themes are TV Shows,
and pop idols of the time,
many of which i don't care for,
female or otherwise, not the Black Sabbath,
(sp? beth?)
but Jimmy Hendrix gets in there somewhere(s),
and bike riding,
turns out her boyfriend Jesse like biking,
and is black, following along on a bike
after the bus, and does some of the races,
with awards and stuff, some made up,
likely participation, Special Olympics like,
and the author interviews him,
trying to go out to dinner,
lunch, taken out, when he doesn't read/ write
much at all, but does black belt karate,
from what reading his family had done
for him, instructing from books,
for something so physical, and anger
management, some problems with his eyes,
hit with a pole? stepped into one,
or maybe beaten up, some times had tried,
walking injured to the hospital but at the wrong
entrance, a colored only, or something
and not getting treatment, but calling police
for even being there, finally some one
takes to the ER, likely becoming blind
in the meantime, not in time?
And other mysteries,
Beth is losing her vision,
cataracts (sp??) or her eyelashes
are turned inwards, so they do surgery
on that, instead of replacing the cornea,
so medical care is a problem,
dental is a forget it can't put hands
in her mouth or get physical problems,
pushed away,
and other signs of abuse,
neglect, and modern terms,
for not getting care,
Family wise, will she do birth control,
the siblings and family responding to her
new boyfriend and what it takes to care for
a baby, and they decide for her,
by possibly exaggerating how difficult
it is to care of a baby full time,
while cute and want one,
talked into not wanting one,
and get sterilized,
while only some of the family is procreating
beyond the 4 siblings to start,
and this is during the sexual revolution,
careers and women working, the mom
finally working in a library, not fulfilled
being a mom/ housewife and the husband,
finally divorcing, and other things the kids
remember...
But reciprocity (sp?) giving back/
or taking turns, or sharing,
(+ quid pro quo?)
and a paragraph with the Serenity Prayer,
wondering if the author finally
gets into that, when not mentioning her own
drinking but her step father, turns out
from prison and a drunk, and abusive,
they leave the house, while Beth and the dog,
stuck with the ExCon and mom, and
the dog, a quick get out of there,
never really explained to Beth,
she wasn't told,
and other instances of didn't protect
your sister, while mom goes off...
Older sister Laura (not real name)
and other abstractions make it near
impossible to figure out things,
most won't matter, but the Pennsylvania
and Amish and parkway, wondering
which cities and places i might have known,
growing up, and now in real time,
with Ambler and UPitt Johnstown,
UPitt BradFord,
as AuTreat Autism conferences,
and places i've been in my life,
but not a lot, Philadelphia,
mentioned and some things in the middle
of the state, likely college town(s)
and big cities, enough to have a bus
system, like State College,
idk 20k plus students?
So guessing, the fictional is
Philadelphia, where author lives and
commutes to PittsBurgh (sp? berg) ,
big enough to have a bus system,
back then, trains mentioned
and a transit hub later,
While getting into the mostly White,
(wouldn't be around here)
bus drivers and changing demographics
of the city, Asian and Black
in the inner city and otters further out,
Polish,
Amish mentioned, dark farms passed,
and lights there, but some farms,
and satellite, and going to the airport,
an Arab man, a driver, and their Top Ten
bestest bus drivers...
Wealth fame, wanted to be a pilot,
took classes, and other priorities,
taking Polaroid (sp?) self developing photos,
and how many button down to 4,
talking and limits set by some drivers,
while used in training for some of what
the new drivers will be dealing with...
They only talk at stops,
so the flow of things,
safety for all the passengers,
and the seating arrangements,
the disabled seating parts of the bus
are up front, and turned side ways,
and other segregation type things...
Driving in bad weather is mentioned,
especially with her father, and storms,
ice, etc and having to stay over,
in hotel(s) sometimes, getting so bad...
Beth was missing for month(s),
and her grandmother mentioned
but barely her loss, as he mom
had gone off on a honeymoon,
and Beth was where?
while her dad had taken the other kids,
mom still had Beth?
and for months not knowing,
the dog left out back?
cold frozen food,
chained up, and forget his name,
but got as a puppy while just after
the divorce, might have helped,
somewhat playing scared of the dog
and trapped on the stairs,
while teasing the dog,
and kisses, hide the dog in the covers,
when come to say good night,
dog kisses too...
Some cuteness and female stuff,
not that guys don't do cute,
but limited tolerance for it sometimes...
But i've gone on too long
even my occasional typing has problems
besides the spelling and looking things up...
Needless to say not so effing brilliant,
solving the problems, seeing it another way,
and what else there is different,
Mental Health Silos aren't the same as
MR/ID/etc, nor substance abuse.
Beth give ExLax (stool softener TM ElseWhere)
to her group house mate(s),
and eventually has another place to live,
by herself, they don't like here there,
and despite visits by family,
she survives, kind of,
while other things not really said/
written, and talking over Beth a lot,
with her care providers,
but also trying to relate,
translating the book for her sister,
writing about her, but not with her,
some pages she had letters sent,
and exact like typed one,
CamelCase, maybe can't do the lower case R
or other things pronunciation,
learning words by the stresses,
like WhatEver,
not that it was a phrase back then,
but IDK, IDon'tKNow
stressing parts of that,
there are various things,
meanings to that,
really doesn't
doesn't want to,
can't budge her,
and various self determination things,
her treatment plan,
getting her to eat well,
consequences and understanding those,
change is slow,
Diet Pepsi,
eventually changes to apple/grape juice?
but that takes years,
Ding Dongs, and other things,
instead of vegetables,
which aren't eaten,
and she's getting large,
cholesterol, have to take meds,
a duck like walk feet out,
clothing child like,
but mental age, not one that makes much sense,
as a 7 year old adult having sex?
or what that age relation means...
The author eventually looks things up
and tires to separate the understanding
of just her sister, with others with the
DisEase?
Mild ReTardation?
and the distinctions there, from Arc
website, for her birthday,
being given coupons as gifts,
and how she forgets things,
no patience for waiting on buses,
knowing thee system by who's driving
and how many minutes she has to wait,
or to use a bathroom and what places
will and won't let her use a RestRoom...
Why and why not?
Must be a customer,
and encountering people on the street,
homeless, and/or creepy?
safe? someone giving her gifts
and she throws it away because he's not good,
while homeless isn't automatically bad,
combining her sense of people
with what others say,
and she's somehow not allowed to
fight for her rights,
and altercations with others,
besides the ExLax (tm ElseWhere) roommate,
incident, for days, when likely overdose,
but cruelty by the other party
not explained, nor gotten into...
So protecting self,
and harming by writing about,
the bus system does pretty well,
the drivers lounge, a place Beth goes into,
and people trying to make her work,
to give her meaning, while she's off
helping others all the time,
mostly talking off their ears,
while riding and her assigned seat,
she's stealing some old lady thinks,
she's out of her Zone,
and not paying $0.20
see #1 on the bus pass, a monthly
first in line and gets #1
but Zones are different?
and bus drivers mostly stick up for her,
she gets them coffee and gets a dollar
more than it cost, but delivery service...
When the book finally comes out,
she gets $1 for selling a book
which her sister gives to her...
She wants her friends to sign the book,
Jessie, boyfriend at the time,
signs, but doesn't read nor write,
however knows a lot about people,
and discrimination,
first hand...
They take trips to the grocery store,
an aide does that, and as payee,
while used to go in, now in and out
quickly, getting only Diet Pepsi
Ding Dongs, certain things she eats,
and not any vegetables,
a heavy load with sodas,
and some she buys and gives to drivers,
their brand and develops friendships that
way...
She babysits/ gets her driver's kids
off to school, waking people up,
as a human alarm clock,
caregiver, as an urge to find work,
and the social norms that really don't apply
well to DisABled life...
Summer Time comes and maybe try to work
some other way? Get the bus system to hire her?
Never worked...
Even working for fast food, after sheltered
workshops, and even her father,
did some task, but mostly drooled/
fawning/ in love/ crush on the printer
our back...
And the drivers get highlighted,
they teach things, and preach like to her,
and others, it's not all driving,
but during time stops, waiting to sync
up the schedule, as some delays expected,
a Comedian, from New York,
does a little skits/ songs/ routines,
but he's only part time,
after seen and done it all in NYC,
including some naked riders without any
money...
Mostly like a bartender, a counselor,
and some referred to get help,
someone following me, and maybe from
psychosis, but gets Detox help,
and eventually better...
The Golden Rule, some Jesus
reborn and take apart their lies.
and transplant saving one drivers life,
Hep B and couldn't do anything,
but someone donated and was selfless
while saved his life, not knowing
age, sex, color, etc selfless,
a bus up a hill not having the power
to make it up all the way,
some would get off and walk,
and meet them up the hill,
around the corner...
But mostly back to
i'm doing all this, for you
and she won't give me a towel,
WTF then abandoned, left bored
bawd,
or open the present i'm giving you now,
nope, coming to an end,
and needs a lot of conflict/ drama
to end things, most fights with drivers/
other passengers, etc...
He'll tell me, to stop,
but most won't, and it goes from there...
What's Missing?
What Can Be Found?
What Can Not Be Found?
How To Analyze?
Lenses
Assumptions
Time Limits
took about a day full time
<24 hour for me to read the book
but writing it up
typically can take as long
with all the edits, etc
though eating data plan isn't going to help
much other ways
Book Data
ISBN
exercise for the reader
look it up
Soft Bound
aka PaperBack
CopyRight 2001?
Pages
No index
Links
RidingTheBusWithMySister.HP.txt
RidingTheBusWithMySister.wc.HP.txt
TheShortBusByMooney2022
AutScapeHybridOnline2022
AutScape2021
AutScape2020
SomeGoodThingsAboutAutreat
AutismMedia2020
Autreat2012
Autreat2011
AutismLinks
RidingInVansWithGirls
VanTherapy
TheMindFuckThatIsArcOfNOVA2012
etc...
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
So thinking still about it,
while started another book,
which might be mixed up after a while,
Comparisons with her and me
I used to ride the buses a lot,
as it took so muhc time,
but had other things to do,
IQ much higher,
and mental health instead.
Wearing shorts in most weather
she limits to 40 degrees...
and talking too much
might have had something to do with
the guy who ran over my feet
a MetroAccess sent overfllow taxi driver...
and they didn't ike driving South County
Mount Vernon to Taj/ FairFax Government Center
or Fairfax RRWG office in PathWays building...
BiCycling
had gotten a license and learning to drive
She has a much bigger family,
with four, 3 siblings,
seems they may have had 3 girls
still trying for a boy
and stopped then with Max...
The dog Raisin?
smaller...
MR/ID/DD Silo instead of MH
Shelter Plus Care
then Voucher instead of
Group Home,
though i had an apartment right out of
the shelters, but didn't last long,
i couldn't get along with others...
and couldn't sleep with others around
plus had a girlfriend at the time
and had lived alone most of my life,
from Latch Key kid after the divorce
to single life later...
Sibling rivalry,
and what our parents taught
i wasn't as disabled until later,
so didn't grow up in Special Ed,
but got some help for reading and writing,
IQ higher, but DysLexic
DysGraphic
Learning DisAbled
much of which discussed in
TheShortBusByMooney2022
and elsewhere...
I'm thinking of things that may
make better discussion
and exercises left for the reader(s)...
.The book has a study guide,
which i think assumes Normal/NT type
people, so toning it down/
and a whole rewrite for others
with less reading skill to not enough,
which starts the discrimination,
and AbleIsm
that i'm feeling all the way through the
book, and likely didn't think much of the movie,
which got panned/ reviewed badly
at least the ones mentioned on the wikipedia
page about it...
But wondering if picking on some other things,
the topic, disabled, MR/DD/ID
Rosie O'Donnell and portrayal
so the author mentioned Adaptation,
using parts of the story,
and killed the father
i guess Angelica Huston had many more
other experiences, some portrayed
in an Autism movie previous Family Pictures
and the typical NT/ NeuroTypical
Normal view of disabliity
instead of the inside and other views
which were attempted to be portrayed,
but if you've met one disabled/
autistic/
you've met one autistic/disable,d
generalizing doesn't work well
and what is called clinically individual differences...
How she translataes the experiences growing up,
her sister not wanting her to be waiting
on her school bus
She's far ahead on school and social fronts,
and how that feels for Beth?
It's mentioned Beth becomes a Bitch,
basically as she grows up,
and that determination and nastiness
meanness that compares with
DD/MR/ID seen as little Angels,
but the social scene is one of
torment, cruelty and other problems,
the mother trapped with 4 kids,
left by husband
and basically has to implode the
family structure,
even if unconsciously to get things to change,
and some time for herself/ caretaking everyone
to exhaustion, depression, etc...
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
What do you see in this book,
movie and scenario?
have you read it?
seen the movie?
compare the two?
Any personal experience that may help
add to the experience?
have you taken buses?
lived in a group home?
congregate living?
what happened/ happens with ConVid19
and 10 more years after the story
is updated?
how many lost because of virus
funding and financial crisis?
Any family members that have to b e taken
in, and what alternatives are there?
where you are/ were, will be?
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