A Day that will live in Infamy.
–FDR<\/p>\n
I have to say I am grateful that, no matter what I’m going through here, we are not fighting a war like World War II, the nastiest of nasties. From the gas chambers to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor to Stalin to Hiroshima, that was one horrible, horrible war. <\/p>\n
So I have some perspective. Although as I often say, we all have a right to our own particular wars — my great Grandma Sarel said, “Our own sack of troubles” — and sometimes it feels like my own little war here. Not on a level of WWII, Nam, or Iraq, but still, enough to make me wonder about the point of things. Yesterday I approached that dark question for a few moments, then turned away from it. Instead of trying to answer that one, though, I got in touch with a few lifelines (NS, EP, BB, RK) and stood my ground.<\/p>\n
My war is not with autism, it is with the way this country, this world, leaves so many gaps between law, institution, and the families. I was told yesterday that I could “just go down to the probate court (about 40 minutes drive from here) and pick up the right forms, and make an appointment with someone there, and talk to them about what else we need to do, and then just do it, and then wait for our court date, while they run a background check on Ned and me to be sure that we are fit enough to be his guardians.”<\/p>\n
Strange that the state of Massachusetts did not care this much about our fitness as parents when Nat was a completely vulnerable little boy. And once the state does ascertain our degree of competence, you can be sure they will not care about what happens to him. Certainly they will not be able to provide the help Nat needs to get by in this world. I am reminded of Penn’s slogan: Leges Sine Moribus Vanae. Laws without morals are in vain. We proved this much in World War II. We kicked the crap out of fascist rule. Now it’s time to enforce our disability laws with a real belief system. And money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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