[Ron R.]

My first wife is Native American and she went to high school at a government-run Indian school in California. She won a creative writing contest one year. Her white teacher read her story to the class and said, 'I showed this to my son, and he couldn't believe that an Indian could write something like this. I'm very proud of you.' At first she was beaming with pride and then it was, 'Wait, what's wrong with this picture?' Sadly, this guy really meant to compliment her.

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[Ron R.]

I had polio at age 4. My arm is atrophied. Most of the ridicule I've experienced has been after I have, wittingly or not, pi**ed somebody off. They will, if they are dishonorable, go straight for any obvious handicap. I will guarantee you that people mock you because they fear you in some way. Bet on it. Get up in their face. They WILL back down.

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[Ron R.]

Catagorizing people by race is an intellectual trap that narrows your ability not only to see but to think clearly about what you see. Race has nothing to do with it. Every individual human being has a distinct odor. Racism has an odor, too. Smells kinda fishy, and has for quite a while now.

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[Ron R.]

Melissa, you are posting some wonderful questions. I absolutely, 100%, do not want to be a kid again. My childhood is gone, and good riddance. But I love old movies, old pulp fiction, and the stuff I enjoy most seems to have been current when I was a little boy. Nostalgia? Not really. But those were the times that formed the very core of us. Maybe we understand those times, bad as they may have been, better than we understand the present. It's a confusing world.

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[Ron R.]

I had polio at age 4. My arm is atrophied. Most of the ridicule I've experienced has been after I have, wittingly or not, pissed somebody off. They will, if they are dishonorable, go straight for any obvious handicap. I will guarantee you that people mock you because they fear you in some way. Bet on it. Get up in their face. They WILL back down.

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Name : Ron R., Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Age : 53, City : Los Lunas, State : NM Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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