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lauradi7dwThere are so many things one could cite about the ADA, its successes and failures. I've decided to go all Imani Barbarin out of laziness, because she's everywhere, but that means I'm leaving out lots of people.
IB with longtime activist Judy Heumann, on NPR
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/26/895480926/the-americans-with-disabilities-act-was-signed-into-law-30-years-ago
(speaking of JH, who appears in it, the documentary "Crip Camp" is still available on Netflix).
A reflection on the mixed feelings about the anniversary
https://crutchesandspice.com/2020/07/26/how-to-properly-celebrate-a-civil-rights-law-during-a-pandemic-in-which-its-subjects-were-left-to-die-the-americans-with-disabilities-act/
An interview on the youtube channel of actor Christopher Gorham, which I happened to see the link to because I follow him on twitter. I follow him because of a fundraising marathon run he did. Everything connects, I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxFkCEXvrT4
I agree that Trump is unfit to be president, but it has irritated me (to say the least) all along that people try to diagnose his physical or mental state based on his public appearances and his tweets. Psychologists demurred initially, saying that one needs to work with someone in person, one to one, but that hasn't been universal, and over time people have gone through DSM checklists and come up with a couple of convincing conclusions. But - really, why should we trust that? (why we should trust the DSM is a different question). Random folks online have claimed that one can see the outline of Depends underwear. So? How is incontinence relevant to the job? I haven't read Mary Trump's book and don't expect to, but I don't think it's news that his father and grandfather were terrible people. I imagine it had the possibly predictable effect on DJT (it may not be a coincidence that he's a terrible person too), but it isn't our place to decide that from afar. I admit that I am intrigued by Tom Joseph's opinion of PSP
https://medlineplus.gov/progressivesupranuclearpalsy.html based on his experience with a relative who had it, but still, he hasn't met the president.
A week ago, in his interview with Chris Wallace, he bragged about passing a mental test. People have discerned that it was this one:
https://www.parkinsons.va.gov/resources/MOCA-Test-English.pdf
I don't know if he was tested recently, but he got that one in 2018. He has been much mocked for being proud of his good score. As someone whose father had Alzheimer's, rather than boasting, he should have been privately giving thanks, but we are talking about someone who boasts about himself all the time. I have been upset at the variety of people mocking the test, and mocking the people who take it. I mean to write a note to "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," which I mostly enjoy, about their jokey attitude toward it. There are very many people on Twitter who apparently were oblivious to the irony of mocking Trump for boasting about passing while boasting about how easy the test was for them. Being able to draw a clock face is impossible for a lot of people who can function pretty well in many aspects of life. My father could tell time on an analog clock way longer than he could draw one. It's something about planning ahead, I think. This one has some similarities (like the counting backwards from 100 by 7s) but some distinct differences.
https://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/county_access/documents/pub/dhs16_159601.pdf
I've always liked the piece of paper portion of the test. Three step instructions can be hard.
Is it possible to practice? Maybe. I know someone in her 80s who does, for fear of (at some point) being forced to go to a nursing home because she can't pass. I practice counting backward from a hundred by a variety of numbers (most commonly 3, which is supposed to be so boring that it helps with getting to sleep), but I do 7 as well. It can't hurt.
Having said all that, I can see the temptation. There is a much-circulated photo of Trump with Brett Favre on a golf course on Saturday, which enraged people who felt he should be doing something useful at a time there were deaths from a variety of causes, and a hurricane, etc.
The things I found interesting as a diagnose from afar person are the way they are standing together, which reminded me a lot of some photographs of FDR being supported by others while standing, and Trumps neck. In my personal list of "favorite muscles," one of them is the platysma.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platysma_muscle
I think it's cool that if you stand in front of a mirror and say its name while exaggerating the middle syllable "plat EES ma" you can clearly see it. It's not far under the skin. At any rate, it's not normally considered one of the muscles used for smiling, but it is for clenching one's jaw. As a celebrity, I am sure he has had a lifetime of fake smiles, but it really looks like he's having a hard time holding that one.
IB with longtime activist Judy Heumann, on NPR
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/26/895480926/the-americans-with-disabilities-act-was-signed-into-law-30-years-ago
(speaking of JH, who appears in it, the documentary "Crip Camp" is still available on Netflix).
A reflection on the mixed feelings about the anniversary
https://crutchesandspice.com/2020/07/26/how-to-properly-celebrate-a-civil-rights-law-during-a-pandemic-in-which-its-subjects-were-left-to-die-the-americans-with-disabilities-act/
An interview on the youtube channel of actor Christopher Gorham, which I happened to see the link to because I follow him on twitter. I follow him because of a fundraising marathon run he did. Everything connects, I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxFkCEXvrT4
I agree that Trump is unfit to be president, but it has irritated me (to say the least) all along that people try to diagnose his physical or mental state based on his public appearances and his tweets. Psychologists demurred initially, saying that one needs to work with someone in person, one to one, but that hasn't been universal, and over time people have gone through DSM checklists and come up with a couple of convincing conclusions. But - really, why should we trust that? (why we should trust the DSM is a different question). Random folks online have claimed that one can see the outline of Depends underwear. So? How is incontinence relevant to the job? I haven't read Mary Trump's book and don't expect to, but I don't think it's news that his father and grandfather were terrible people. I imagine it had the possibly predictable effect on DJT (it may not be a coincidence that he's a terrible person too), but it isn't our place to decide that from afar. I admit that I am intrigued by Tom Joseph's opinion of PSP
https://medlineplus.gov/progressivesupranuclearpalsy.html based on his experience with a relative who had it, but still, he hasn't met the president.
A week ago, in his interview with Chris Wallace, he bragged about passing a mental test. People have discerned that it was this one:
https://www.parkinsons.va.gov/resources/MOCA-Test-English.pdf
I don't know if he was tested recently, but he got that one in 2018. He has been much mocked for being proud of his good score. As someone whose father had Alzheimer's, rather than boasting, he should have been privately giving thanks, but we are talking about someone who boasts about himself all the time. I have been upset at the variety of people mocking the test, and mocking the people who take it. I mean to write a note to "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," which I mostly enjoy, about their jokey attitude toward it. There are very many people on Twitter who apparently were oblivious to the irony of mocking Trump for boasting about passing while boasting about how easy the test was for them. Being able to draw a clock face is impossible for a lot of people who can function pretty well in many aspects of life. My father could tell time on an analog clock way longer than he could draw one. It's something about planning ahead, I think. This one has some similarities (like the counting backwards from 100 by 7s) but some distinct differences.
https://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/county_access/documents/pub/dhs16_159601.pdf
I've always liked the piece of paper portion of the test. Three step instructions can be hard.
Is it possible to practice? Maybe. I know someone in her 80s who does, for fear of (at some point) being forced to go to a nursing home because she can't pass. I practice counting backward from a hundred by a variety of numbers (most commonly 3, which is supposed to be so boring that it helps with getting to sleep), but I do 7 as well. It can't hurt.
Having said all that, I can see the temptation. There is a much-circulated photo of Trump with Brett Favre on a golf course on Saturday, which enraged people who felt he should be doing something useful at a time there were deaths from a variety of causes, and a hurricane, etc.
The things I found interesting as a diagnose from afar person are the way they are standing together, which reminded me a lot of some photographs of FDR being supported by others while standing, and Trumps neck. In my personal list of "favorite muscles," one of them is the platysma.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platysma_muscle
I think it's cool that if you stand in front of a mirror and say its name while exaggerating the middle syllable "plat EES ma" you can clearly see it. It's not far under the skin. At any rate, it's not normally considered one of the muscles used for smiling, but it is for clenching one's jaw. As a celebrity, I am sure he has had a lifetime of fake smiles, but it really looks like he's having a hard time holding that one.
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Date: 2020-07-27 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-27 08:11 pm (UTC)These are set samples from a scholarly paper
https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cms/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.12070180/asset/images/large/260f1.jpeg
They don't show the one I like best - the person didn't plan it out, and was at a lower number when it got to 12, so they kept going on the outside of the circle until all numbers 1-12 had been used up. The person knew what was supposed to happen and was doing the darnedest to get it done.
I am sorry for your mother's distress, and yours. I occasionally draw the clock, and as I said, I count backwards regularly. I might end up getting a different test when the time comes. When my mother had a fairly mild stroke several years ago, she was assigned a home speech therapist. Her speech had only been slightly affected, so we were curious what would be involved. What actually happened was that the therapist would read her some short scenarios, and then ask Mama what I assume were standardized questions about it. We both realized that it was checking to see if cognition and memory were affected by the stroke. Not really, so the therapist only came a couple of times.
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Date: 2020-07-27 08:23 pm (UTC)