I went to the Northwest Arkansas Community College (NWACC) and signed up for an associates degree course in Zoology.
They said to me... in reference to me being currently disabled, living on disability benefits and refusing to use services designated for the disabled, because according to me, those services are tantamount to modern day Jim Crow, or Apartheid depending on which side of the American border you're on.
lol
They said...
Fine, you're 31 years old, you're an adult, we're not responsible for your decisions anymore, you're a free man...
And we will work with you, you will go out there and get what you're worth in this world just like everybody else.
But don't complain to us, when what you have, is just like everybody else.
Don't complain to us when you lose your benefits, and the government decides every February that they want a chunk of yours, and you don't qualify to for anything that you pay for, because there are people worse off than you who don't go get what they're worth because they can't.
Dont complain to us when you can't get Medicaid or medicare, and your Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance premium is not only 300 bucks a month, but more because of your Asperger Syndrome, oh yes..your private health insurance will be more....
especially with a degree in zoology.
Don't complain to us when you're sick and you gotta go to work still.
Don't come crying the blues to us when your rent is $1,000 or $1500 or $2500, you just gotta pay the damn bill and that's it, just like everybody else.
What did you think son ?
That you had all these things out of the kindness of corporate America's heart ?
You got all these things because you were entitled to them....
You go make your $60,000 a year... see what you'll be entitled to.
and I said...
Good, because what I'm entitled to, is going to kill me.
I need more, and I need better...
It's time to go to get it.
And they said...
Well I like your spirit about things.
I responded back saying.... It's easy for you to say, you take what you have for granted.
:)
They said....
See you after spring break... show us what you're worth.
Because you're in.
:)
They said to me... in reference to me being currently disabled, living on disability benefits and refusing to use services designated for the disabled, because according to me, those services are tantamount to modern day Jim Crow, or Apartheid depending on which side of the American border you're on.
lol
They said...
Fine, you're 31 years old, you're an adult, we're not responsible for your decisions anymore, you're a free man...
And we will work with you, you will go out there and get what you're worth in this world just like everybody else.
But don't complain to us, when what you have, is just like everybody else.
Don't complain to us when you lose your benefits, and the government decides every February that they want a chunk of yours, and you don't qualify to for anything that you pay for, because there are people worse off than you who don't go get what they're worth because they can't.
Dont complain to us when you can't get Medicaid or medicare, and your Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance premium is not only 300 bucks a month, but more because of your Asperger Syndrome, oh yes..your private health insurance will be more....
especially with a degree in zoology.
Don't complain to us when you're sick and you gotta go to work still.
Don't come crying the blues to us when your rent is $1,000 or $1500 or $2500, you just gotta pay the damn bill and that's it, just like everybody else.
What did you think son ?
That you had all these things out of the kindness of corporate America's heart ?
You got all these things because you were entitled to them....
You go make your $60,000 a year... see what you'll be entitled to.
and I said...
Good, because what I'm entitled to, is going to kill me.
I need more, and I need better...
It's time to go to get it.
And they said...
Well I like your spirit about things.
I responded back saying.... It's easy for you to say, you take what you have for granted.
:)
They said....
See you after spring break... show us what you're worth.
Because you're in.
:)