Comments on: An Open Letter to Laural Scholl http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2013/05/an-open-letter-to-laural-scholl/ Girl in a Party Hat Mon, 02 May 2022 06:16:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: kathymonkman http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2013/05/an-open-letter-to-laural-scholl/comment-page-1/#comment-13185 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:21:29 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=4587#comment-13185 How Laural responded to this incident is, to me, what would define her as a “nice person” or not. We all make mistakes, although this one was pretty calculated.
I don’t know, I just don’t know.

If someone made a comment like that on my blog, I wouldn’t just delete their comment, I’d ban them but that’s just me.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2013/05/an-open-letter-to-laural-scholl/comment-page-1/#comment-13094 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:03:34 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=4587#comment-13094 Dear Laural:
I happen to know a little girl who, like you, was born with a hole in her heart. But hers was fixable. I feel sorry for you.

]]> By: Kittymama http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2013/05/an-open-letter-to-laural-scholl/comment-page-1/#comment-13070 Thu, 16 May 2013 05:25:40 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=4587#comment-13070 Knowing Sophie even only to the casual extent that I do, I’m aware that I can never think of her as less than, only different from. Nobody would choose to have Down syndrome or to have a child with it, but that doesn’t make it a “bad” thing. That’s why using it to describe the kind of stupid behavior that’s just infuriating is offensive, in my opinion.

But then I have to ask myself why I feel it’s more okay for me to get so impatient or judgmental sometimes when a less disabled person doesn’t understand something (and not just on the Internet). I don’t really want to be the person who reacts that way. As someone I think we’re both quite fond of says, “Most people are doing the best they can.” Sigh. I guess we just try to enable and encounter as many epiphanies as we can.

]]> By: Paul Rubin http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2013/05/an-open-letter-to-laural-scholl/comment-page-1/#comment-13069 Thu, 16 May 2013 04:59:38 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=4587#comment-13069 Sophie is one of the coolest people I know, little or big. I suspect that Laural, who I don’t know, would not make that august list.

]]> By: Bob Berg http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2013/05/an-open-letter-to-laural-scholl/comment-page-1/#comment-13063 Wed, 15 May 2013 19:46:11 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=4587#comment-13063 Thank you Amy

]]> By: Robert Polk http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2013/05/an-open-letter-to-laural-scholl/comment-page-1/#comment-13058 Wed, 15 May 2013 01:20:43 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=4587#comment-13058 Remember when I once told you the r-word was not all that troublesome to this DS parent? Maybe it was my generation, or scientist inclination. Well, this episode, interpreted through your viewpoint, did it. Yep. Our kids can do so well, but ….

Sigh.

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