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Post by Really Red on Feb 18, 2017 18:13:27 GMT
I watched a few episodes. Love the boy with CP. He is GREAT. His brother is also an excellent actor, but I do not care for Minnie Driver at all and this show did not change my mind, so I just can't watch.
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Post by mrssmith on Feb 18, 2017 19:44:46 GMT
We enjoy it. I have a 16 year old son who has CP, drives a power chair, and uses an aug com device for communication. This show gets it right pretty often. Glad to hear that it's fairly accurate. I think I heard on NPR that the creator has a brother with CP who is nonverbal.
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Post by bunnyhug on Feb 18, 2017 20:57:10 GMT
I like that JJ can be a jerk sometimes 😄
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mallie
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Post by mallie on Feb 18, 2017 22:33:51 GMT
I originally liked the show, but the episode about how the one kid just wanted to go on a field trip and the rest of the family would not get their act together made me crazy to watch. I hate seeing someone suffer because other people don't give a shit about something like timeliness. I know that their attitude is all too common, but it just makes my skin crawl in part because I had an aunt like that and I know the serious negative consequences to my cousins due to her refusal to get them places on time. I stopped watching the episode (on demand) and randomly clicked on another and it was all about their van being stolen only it had just rolled down an embankment because the stupid mother forgot to put the brake on. I was done. I just will not spend my leisure time watching stupid people be stupid.
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Post by rst on Feb 18, 2017 23:10:58 GMT
Mallie, while the time management and scatter-brain issues are annoying, doubtless, for families who have extensive special needs, the whole concept of "disability time" is a common theme. Learning how to roll with it is a big sibling issue. So, yeah. Annnoying. But true to life. No matter how organized and generally punctual you are (and I am) when you have to factor in total care, last minute changes of clothing from top to bottom necessitated, equipment issues, catheters, feeding pumps, med schedules, etc -- well, timeliness is hard to manage. And sometimes just not possible. Learning to laugh at ourselves and pick our battles is big.
Forgetting to put on the parking break and thinking it's stolen, ok, extreme. But jokes about MCI (mild cognitive impairment) amongst moms of special needs kids who are running on sleep deprived for more than a decade-- well, that too is a common theme in our refined circles.
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