I watched people with pleasant personalities become cold hearted working with the system and not wanting to loose their jobs. I was put...

To pass the test you get the book made to prepare you. So I did. There was a section that was just a list of vocabulary words you would...

My husband had been my hero for nine years, since I meet him at 17 to 18. We loved each other dearly but circumstances beyond our control...

In desperation I looked at my lists, I had read them and still I was stumped as to what to do next. I had read and marked facts with...

I could write papers, short ones not longer then one to two thousand words. I usually got an A or A+ for content and D, E, or F for...

I made note books of the notes and put them into categories, any category that seemed to make sense. It did not really matter what the...

I had finished up my BA in psychology just a month or so earlier. I wanted to go on but I knew I was not ready for the test and that I...

I had married and my husband was working on his PhD at Ohio State University. I was about to have my third little boy. It was a full time...

School and learning, like any task, is a skill that you learn. The more you practice the better you get. But with a handicap practice may...

The brother one year older then me was soon to save my college career. I had to take a class in research methods, it was way beyond me, I...

I was 18, starting my second year of college, handicapped and learning disabled, and for a month before I was to take care of three boys...

The letter finally came from the Dean of Women. I was being offered a job to live in a family with three boys, twins 8 and a 10 year old....

It can be a lonely world of handicapped. You have lots of different views from others. You listen to others talk quick and not slow down...

The trip home in the large truck, still the plants waving in the wind, seemed a slow progression, more like a funeral procession. We were...

Mom's sister moved into our house when we returned to the small town. Life was altered, it was bitter sweet. As one life was ending in a...

Shortly before we went home for the holidays my mom got that horrible letter. A policeman knocked on the door and served her. The breath...

She had gotten a job making donuts early in the mornings. We would leave the tiny town we lived in and travel to the small town of the...

I had never experienced a week of finals before. I sat in my psychology class finals room. I was nervous as they passed out the tests....

Why I began I do not remember. But I began to dramatize as I read. I guess I wanted to emphasize things into my memory. It worked well. I...

There I was in reading class. But this class was different. We worked on our own. We had lessons and question and answer stuff,...