Our PT joke thread

[wombat2u2004]

I don't see any argument here Wom. Simply differing views on a subject. While some may think it's fine to ridicule Alzheimer's patients or any other form of mental illness I view it as a form of abuse, insensitivity and cruelty and that's what I stated. People are up in arms over the abuse of pets yet abusing humans is considered acceptable?? Not in my view and that's all I stated. I've witnessed these people in all stages of this devastating disease and sincerely can't say that I find anything funny about it. And I don't know anyone else who can find humour in making fun of them or anyone with any kind of mental illness for that matter.

I challenge you to spend a day in a facility for Alzheimer's patients or any other form of disorder and come home saying that was a fun day. Would you teach your own children to ridicule anyone with a mental disorder-- What about our soldiers who come home mentally disabled because of injury , physical or mental trauma etc...do you find anything funny about them also...? Or are they just cast away veggie salads? Maybe I'm just overly sensitive.

Awww...it was a harmless little joke mate, and I doubt it was meant to offend anyone. I mean, most jokes have a shot at something or someone, right ????

[Catty1]

Link to a Google search for "disabled comedians"...and guess what they laugh about?

http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&source=h...06745222af36bd

[kokopup]

I thought I would never make jokes of someone with a disability but found in the later days of my mother's Dementia it was hard not to get a chuckle out of some of her imagined foes that came her way. It is hard seeing someone you love, that has always been on top of everything, start the downward trek with
all kinds of imagined things. Yes, some , no, most were laughable.

In my recent visit to my cardiologist he ask me if my neurogolist had talked to me much about a certain neurological problem. i told him that she had not said a word to me. I had noted that recently that my brain was not making the quick accessments that it once did. An example would be a sound that in the past would instantly be identifed, processed and I would not react. Now sounds are not being processed fast enough and it is causing problems with understanding normal speech and sounds that appear from no where now startle me. Just a few months ago I would have instantly identified the sound and would not react. The some total of what my neurologist has not discussed with me but put in my record is I'm on the starting path that ALS and other neurogical disorders takes. From a memory standpoint I joking say watching reruns is ok because I can't remember what I saw the first time. I feel now as long as I am still able to joke about it I'm still OK. It's when I'm so far gone that I can't joke that worries me. I still have most of my old cognitive ability for problem solving but find multitasking is getting harder. Mulitasking now means I start to do one thing get sidetracked to another task and another, then another. Sidetracked is a very big part of my dayly life now.

[wombat2u2004]

I think to, it's how people relate to a disability. I know that if I got Alzheimers, I wouldn't want the world to mourn me. No... life goes on, it's the luck of the draw....life goes on....laughing and joking about it is fine, I know it's not serious.....it's a joke right ??? Makes a lightness of the situation....not malicious fun toward it.

I had a mate years ago who I worked with, he lost an eye in a wood machine shop....sure, we were very sorry he had lost an eye, but that didn't stop us all knicknaming him "Cyclops", even his wife called him that. He didn't mind....he even signed his Xmas cards to us with that name. But he knew all too well, that if he needed help, he'd only have to ask.