Thoughts on "Special Needs" from an Atypical Household

Note (12/17/13): I'm gradually moving selected posts over from my old blog.
This was originally posted in November, 2007

I was listening to a bit of an NPR program on the way to Wal-Mart. They had been interviewing Jonathan Mooney. As a child, he received extensive school-based services for learning disabilities, including dyslexia. He described a plethora of efforts to "fix" him, including making him wear purple glasses to "treat" his dyslexia. ("YOU try going to school in purple glasses," he said. He's got a point). He also said, "I took enough medications to kill a small farm animal."