Category Archives: life skills

Truth Be Told__NLD Eye Opener

by Linda Ballard

I’m loving every minute of it. I went in search of the TRUTH about NLD SYNDROME and look-a-here! Look-a-here! You think I’m mad. I’m excited because this long journey put the TRUTH OUT THERE. There are TIMES in our lives when we go searching for the TRUTH and we don’t like what we find.

Some people love being LIED to. The TRUTH brings QUALITY to one’s LIFE if you are willing to accept the TRUTH. SO BRING IT! People who are diagnosed with NLD SYNDROME struggle with LIFE SKILLS and SOCIAL SKILLS. It is hard for them to read between the lines.

Why do you feel the need to hide? Why should you have to read between the lines? If you have to read between the lines all the TIME get ready to find LIES under the carpet. If someone tells you they were being DISCREET you only had half the information they provided.

How CAREFUL was MR. KIT GLOVES? Was the individual so GUARDED they forgot to tell you the TRUTH? I’m sorry you may just be stuck with half the TRUTH or NO TRUTH at all.

TRUTH BE TOLD if you POINT IT OUT, EXPLAIN IT, and GIVE people with NLD SYNDROME or anyone else for what it matters THE FACTS they would not take you down to ground zero. NLDERS appear rude because what they say is RAW, unexpected, and bears the TRUTH through no fault of their own.

NLDERS are born with an UNINTENTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER. So be ready to get your face cracked, feelings crushed, and totally butt lashed and thrashed. NLDERS have no filter. NLDERS have plenty of questions. I hope you have an answer. Thank you, GOD, for the COMPUTER.

This is how they learn. Their program is heard it, say it, speak it, and they say it out loud. NLDERS need lots of information because they are not hanging out with CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.

So if you are standing close by you will get an earful of what they really think about you. Whereas the mainstream or the so-called normal folks process internally and would love to tell you what NLDERS process outside of their brain-box.

There is just too much TRUTH going on with NLDERS and too much attention to detail. NLDERS do not paraphrase to soften the blow. If you are a LIAR you should be called out as a LIAR. People want you to paraphrase the statement to keep from hurting a person feeling.

People don’t like their authority being challenged nor do they like being questioned. People just don’t have the TIME to explain or try to give an answer for something or to someone they may not have an answer to. People get pissed off if they think you are analyzing them.

Absolutely, the TRUTH is hard-core. Well, you shouldn’t LIE. MITT ROMNEY, the WORLD’S BIGGEST LIAR can run for PRESIDENT. Yes, and MITT ROMNEY is a HABITUAL BALD FACE LIAR (translation; being emotionless, showing no remorse, and constantly giving false statements).

Did you like MITT ROMNEY’S laugh? Did you like his selective memory? MITT ROMNEY stated,”CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE.” EXCUSE ME! The other word for LIAR in the CORPORATE WORLD IS LOOPHOLE.

CORPORATIONS are not PEOPLE but created under the laws of STATE WEASELS. CORPORATIONS, separate legal entity, receives special privileges and liabilities distinct from their members.

CORPORATIONS find a slit, crack, or gap to evade an issue, not choose a position, are vague, and avoid the laws in order to retain or reap the benefits of the profit. CORPORATIONS want their cake, ice cream, and the whole party. Sounds like MITT ROMNEY tax evasion

Did we discover MITT ROMNEY is NOT A PERSON but a CORPORATION? I think MITT ROMNEY was trying to tell us he was not a person before the BULLYING incident was revealed. Hey! He tried to tell us.

I pack my bags and went up the street to CONGRESS BLVD. I was looking at all those so-called INTELLIGENT PEOPLE with massive RADICAL INTENTIONAL BEHAVIORS. On CONGRESS BLVD. everyone on this street was processing their thoughts out loud.

The different on CONGRESS BLVD from NLD AVENUE is on CONGRESS BLVD they didn’t care what they said, who they said it to, and how they said it. The people on CONGRESS BLVD. made it perfectly clear to me and the WORLD they could LIE their A.. off because they had MONEY. WOW!

CONGRESS BLVD behavior was INTENTIONAL and of course, people who are diagnosed with NLD SYNDROME cannot help what they are born with and have no control over what they say. People on CONGRESS BLVD are EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED.

Try to tell someone who SARAH PALIN ain’t COO COO for COCOA PUFFS. NEWT GINGRICH, RICK SANTORUM, RICK PERRY, MICHELE BACHMAN, and HERMAN CAIN are ROCKIN the DIAGNOSTIC STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDER(DSM4).

Since they have left the DEBATE stage the world is waiting for the result and classification of their diagnosis.

TRUTH BE TOLD, money just delays consequences for those who are the 1%. RUPERT MURDOCH is finding that out because right about NOW the British do not think RUPERT MURDOCH is fit to run another company. MITT ROMNEY, TRUTH BE TOLD, cannot tell the TRUTH and has selective memory.

Okay, you say 50 years is a long TIME to rehash what ROMNEY did. He never got discipline, out of school suspension, and he continued on with his behaviors. He was unable to change due to lack of guidance. He enjoyed what he did because he wasn’t worried about the consequences.

Is it okay for our children to pay the highest consequences because of lack of money? Will their school-record ever be expunged? Is it fair to be rewarded even after 50 years? The hurt and pain MITT ROMNEY caused people is not a laughable matter.

We are in the age of YOUTUBE MOMENTS and CAUGHT ON TAPE. MEDIA truly MATTERS and MITT ROMNEY behavior has manifested itself before the Whole WORLD’S EYES. Do our SOCIETY REWARD a certain CLASS of PEOPLE’S BEHAVIOR because of MONEY? Do OUR SOCIETY REWARD WEAKNESS over STRENGTH?

DO OUR SOCIETY REWARD IGNORANCE over INTELLIGENCE? DO OUR SOCIETY HONOR a LIAR over a PRESIDENT WHO HAS KEPT HIS PROMISE, HAS to ACKNOWLEDGE HIS MISTAKES, CONNECTED TO THE PEOPLE, and told the TRUTH?

DO OUR SOCIETY REWARD A MAN WHO HAS PLACE THE BLAME on OTHERS and NEVER HAS TAKEN RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS OWN ACTIONS? DOES OUR SOCIETY REWARD HATRED and RACISM? He had money and was above the rim.

MITT ROMNEY got busted and he showed no sincerity. There is a pattern here people! He threw RICHARD GRENELL under the bus. MITT ROMNEY is a WEAK OPPONENT who cannot address his own RELIGION.

So I assume he has NO FAITH in himself, his RELIGION, nor will he have FAITH in the PEOPLE and the NATION. He will sell OUR NATION out to the HIGHEST BIDDER.

However, he felt about the LGBT community he could have shown RICHARD GRENELL how valuable he was to his team. Only money is valuable, looking down on others, and displaying to the world he is just not for the PEOPLE nor the NATION.

I wonder if MITT ROMNEY thinks it is funny what he has done to GST STEEL? I tweeted this morning after watching the VIDEO that MITT ROMNEY was NOT a JOB CREATOR but a LIFE DEVASTATOR. MITT ROMNEY created a WAR ZONE.

HE crushed, killed and destroyed the HEARTS, LIVES, and SOULS of MANY. This is a BULLY. If you don’t take into account of what MITT ROMNEY did over 50 years ago, please take into account of his DESTRUCTION of people’s LIVES TODAY.

To the MEDIA: You have done an EXCEPTIONAL JOB and I am very grateful for all the POWERFUL DOCUMENTATION and information that you have brought forth on MITT ROMNEY.

I am very thankful for all of the information you have put out so the people can learn, PAY ATTENTION, remain vigilant, and make the right decision come ELECTION DAY.

THE WORLD needs to see the DANGER MITT ROMNEY poses to the LIVES of the PEOPLE and OUR NATION.

Continue to speak out and don’t let anyone talk down to you. Put their A..in check immediately. To TAMRON HALL you will make any mother proud. Thank you for tearing the rim off of TIM CARNEY’S FRUIT of the WOUNDS. May he continue to patch his A..:)

I want to send a SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN. I have always loved your outburst of passion because I know you speak from your HEART ZONE. Over forty years plus I would love to see the person that will call themselves trying to tame your spirit.

In my heart of heart, SPONTANEITY is good. I live on the FLIP SIDE OF THE CHART and understand what happens when a person cannot express his emotions. Hell! Look at MITT ROMNEY and what it has done to him. When he does try to express himself it is a NO GO.

I don’t feel I could ever TRUST a man who does not BELIEVE IN HIMSELF or cannot tell the TRUTH. PROTOCOL! What PROTOCOL? This is HISTORY IN THE MAKING, MOVING FORWARD, and PROGRESSIVENESS.

My spin on this is if O’Reilly, LIMBAUGH, HANNITY, BECK, and the FOX NEWS CREW have NO FACTUAL INFORMATION or DOCUMENTATION and haven’t caused a WAR yet. Why should JOE APOLOGIZE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH? JOE BIDEN needs to remain JOE BIDEN.

To the MEDIA on SAME SEX MARRIAGE, the key WORD is ISOLATION. I would like to know the FOLLOWING: What is the SUICIDE RATE on people who have been ISOLATED over an extended amount of TIME without developing friends and relationship?

How many people in the LGBT community have taken their lives because of the SHAME, GUILT, and FEAR due to ISOLATION of not having the support and rights that other people have?

How many people are INSTITUTIONALIZED due to ISOLATION without having the support of family, friends, and associates? How many people have committed crimes due to ISOLATION of not having a social system put in place for support?

Where does the AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION stand on SAME SEX MARRIAGE? What is the AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION view on what happens to people who have trouble developing friendship and relationship and forced into ISOLATION? What is the DIAGNOSIS called?

We saw what happen on stage at the DEBATES to the CONTENDERS and the GAME CHANGER. IN comparing and contrasting the RADICAL INTENTIONAL BEHAVIORS to the NEUROLOGICAL UNINTENTIONAL BEHAVIORS of NLD SYNDROME, TRUTH BE TOLD NLD is an EYE OPENER.

PEOPLE diagnosed with NLD SYNDROME ARE NOT EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED. Can you say the same about MITT ROMNEY?

DISCLAIMER: GOING FORWARD 2012 THIS MESSAGE HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY SMOKELBG:)

May Day May Day__Super Tweet Super Sweet

by Linda Ballard

Look at it again. Nah! This is not about RICK JAMES. I know you looked at the title and the music begin to dance around in your head. Cut it out. STOP IT! STOP IT! I like the new THEME “FORWARD” I wanted to TWEET this to the PRESIDENT but I knew it would take more than 140 WORDS.

I would have too many WORDS going “FORWARD.” It is a moment of REFLECTION for the NATION and NOT a CELEBRATION. As I look back on May 1, 2011. I was in the process of writing one of my favorite stories. It sums this day up perfectly.

GIVING RECOGNITION TO THE UNRECOGNIZED-SAVING LIVES speaks of the chain of events and struggles that PRESIDENT OBAMA has dealt with to gain RESPECT, VALIDATION, from the PEOPLE, and the NATION. He has done a MAR..VE…LOUS JOB of KEEPING HIS PROMISE.

HOLD UP! I think I will go with the WORD MASTERFUL. Sometimes people get this WORD confused with CONTROLLING. We are talking about the BIG D who is SKILLFUL. NOW if we were talking about the REPUBLICANS we would be talking about CONTROLLING.

I know STILL WATERS RUN DEEP so WALK WITH ME AND TAKE MY HAND. I know you are a SKILLFUL SWIMMER and you won’t let me drown or down. This is what I said to you a year ago and I hold steadfast in my position today.

To the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, YOU have been riding on the WAVE of a TSUNAMI. YOU have looked across the way. The WORDS you spoke transmitted RESPECT to the LIFE of an INFAMOUS RECOGNIZABLE NOW LAID TO REST. It was not a CELEBRATION THEN and it should not be a CELEBRATION TODAY.

IT WAS A LIFE. YOU held steadfast to your 3P’s. POWER, PASSION, and PURPOSE. Tonight you have earned 2 of my P’S. This is PRODUCTIVITY and PLACEMENT.

YOU get the BRAGGING RIGHTS as being one of the most PRODUCTIVE PRESIDENTS in the WORLD. As far as PLACEMENT I am looking “FORWARD.” I know that many others are looking “FORWARD” to you getting your SECOND CHANCE as the PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

GET OUT YOUR SURFBOARD and RIDE THE WAVE of the TSUNAMI all the way home. DO YOUR THANG!

The Case Of The Fake People__Romneyville

by Linda Ballard

DAVID AXELROD what is wrong with your eyeglasses? Is it TIME for an eye exam? JIM MESSINA if you are wearing contacts maybe you need to change the cleaning SOLUTION. Are your contacts foggy? I put my cards on the table. PAY ATTENTION and DON’T get CAUGHT UP!

HEY, THOSE ARE NOT YOUR EYEGLASSES. We name that tune back in January 2011 archive. What! The REPUBLICANS switch your EYEGLASSES. WHEW! You had me worried. For a moment I thought you had lost YOUR SENSE OF NORMAL.

I need to know if you are operating with a full deck. Don’t go pulling a HOUDINI act on a person when they say something you don’t agree with. We are comparing and contrasting NLD SYNDROME to the REPUBLICANS. ALAN WEST SYNDROME is on a totally different chart.

Let the REPUBLICANS take the credit for throwing people under the bus. The REPUBLICANS are NOTORIOUS FOR NOT DENOUNCING people who are out of control and putting into legislature their crazy conjured up laws.They haven’t DENOUNCED TED NUGENT nor RUSH LIMBAUGH.

They are GORILLA GLUED to the SIDE POCKET of the NRA and ALEC. The REPUBLICANS are stuck with the RYAN’S BUDGET. MITT ROMNEY ENDORSE PAUL RYAN’S PLAN and ENDORSED DISASTER. Maybe it was the CHEESY GRITS for MITT or the DAVID CROCKETT SONG that made him ENDORSE THE RYAN’S BUDGET.

One thing for sure it wasn’t the COOKIES. COOKIE MONSTER and the SESAME STREET GANG is pissed off. MITT ROMNEY started a WAR on SESAME STREET. MITT ROMNEY didn’t know how to get to SESAME STREET. He should have asked. CAN YOU TELL ME HOW TO GET TO SESAME STREET? DANG!

What is MITT ROMNEY going to do at 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE? COME ON NOW! If he had visited with the gang more he would have known the COOKIES were serious and not FAKE BAKE like him. ALL MITT had to do was lick his skin and he could taste the FAKE.

Maybe he would have realized the COOKIES were for REAL. I hope he is not wearing the wrong COLOR shirt. KNOW THE PEOPLE and KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. He lost their vote. The REPUBLICANS are in total DENIAL of all the WARS they have created. These guys have a SMORGASBORD of WARS going on.

Send the REPUBLICANS an E-mail and tell them they no longer need to fight ABROAD. REPUBLICANS NEED to finish the WARS they have started here on their own TURF.

Hey, I got this, understand it, and live it every day of my life. MARTIN BASHIR, RICHARD WOLFF, EZRA KLINE, CHRIS HAYES, BERNIE SANDERS, MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, glasses are adjusted and ready to roll. ROCK IT, BABY! JOHN NICHOLS got his glasses adjusted.

MIKE PAPANTONIO, DR. JAMES PETERSON, and REV. AL SHARPTON go ahead and let DAVID/JIM look through your eyes or borrow your contact SOLUTION to clean their lens off. LADIES don’t feel slighted.

If you ask any of these men IS THERE A WAR ON WOMEN they will shoot it from the hip. DAVID and JIM, YOU NEED AN INTERPRETER. Maybe DAVID and JIM did not get the whole picture? Hopefully the next TIME they will be able to put the pieces of the puzzle together.

DAVID and JIM failed to read between the line. That is OKAY! Don’t be afraid to give the PEOPLE more CREDIT for understanding HILARY ROSEN statement. There are many women across AMERICA who knew exactly what HILARY ROSEN meant. What happen? ANNE ROMNEY played herself.

“MOMMY DEAREST” with her wire hangers and her can of Comet has been revealed. She stated she didn’t take offense to the comment and she stated it was like an early birthday gift.

HILARY ROSEN should have never been made the villain. Her statement was true. The TRUTH IS THE TRUTH! TRU-DAT! Working women and stay at home mothers know this is a 24/7 job either way. We don’t have the choices like ANNE ROMNEY nor the money.

ANNE ROMNEY cannot and will never be able to relate because of her financial status, greed, an arrogance. ANNE ROMNEY sent a POWERFUL MESSAGE to the WOMEN and MOTHERS across the WORLD. When she stepped upon the platform at the NRA meeting it was all over.

Her birthday present blew up in her face. KA-BOOM! ANNE ROMNEY is the mother of 5 children who SUPPORTS the ORGANIZATIONS (NRA and ALEC). These laws passed by ALEC is killing OUR children. ANNE ROMNEY is your children better than OURS? Is this the Message you wanted to send?

Once ANNE ROMNEY stepped inside the building and ENDORSED MITT ROMNEY’S PLAN the gates of hell flew open. It didn’t make the DEMOCRATS look bad. It did reveal the CASE OF THE FAKE PEOPLE who live in ROMNEYVILLE.

Did ANNE ROMNEY stop and think about the life of TRAYVON MARTIN and the many young adults that have fallen victim to these laws? Ain’t no way MITT ROMNEY could have made me attend the NRA CONFERENCE before or after the death of TRAYVON MARTIN. ANNE did not step up to the plate.

ANN ROMNEY, I’m quite sure TRAYVON and the many other young adults would have loved to have seen many more years of their birthdays. Are you supportive of AFRICAN AMERICANS, LATINOS, and other diverse cultures being gun down? Is this what ANNE ROMNEY stand for?

Is this the reason why MITT ROMNEY is having trouble with the WOMEN, MOTHERS, AFRICAN AMERICANS, LATINOS, and other diverse cultures? Will MITT ROMNEY ever be able to relate to the POOR and MIDDLE CLASS?

What the REPUBLICANS ENDORSE, WHO they ENDORSE is killing them and all the WARS they have created.

My homegirl RA-RA ran off murder after murder on KILL ME CORNER in ST. LOUIS, MO. Here we are having an NRA CONFERENCE in all the KILL ME STATES and ANNE ROMNEY hasn’t figured out what happens next. Who said ANNE ROMNEY was smart? She is the GOP ROCK.

If ANNE ROMNEY doesn’t understand MITT ROMNEY’S PLAN then she has become the GOP BRICK BRAIN. The REPUBLICANS have declared a WAR ON WOMEN, THE PRESIDENT, THE PEOPLE, OUR NATION, and OUR FUTURE GENERATION.

CONNIE SCHULTZ I’m coming at you from the FLIP SIDE OF THE CHART. Parents made all types of sacrifices to live in what we thought was a better community so our children could have a better education and housing.

Sacrifices were made because we thought about the safety and security of our children being at home at night without the GATE. NEVER in our wildest dream would anyone imagine the SECURITY and the GATED COMMUNITY would be the DEATH of our children.

Parents were so afraid on the job because our children were latch-key. We prayed no one would break in, hurt, rape, or kill our children. Our children didn’t have a maid or a nanny. We did not live in ROMNEYVILLE.

Parents were frightened because our children were left unsupervised and could sneak out in the night. It could cost them their lives. OUT OF SIGHT! OUT OF MIND! Every TIME the phone rang at work, in the back of the minds of many parents we wondered was it THE CALL.

There were some parents who got THE CALL to come down and identify the body. You could hear the screams and cries. “LORD they shot my BABY, I should have been home.” TRAYVON MARTIN’S family did not get this RESPECT. Look at what happens in our communities.

Can you imagine a mother telling her co-workers that her child didn’t have decent clothes for school and she can not afford to buy her baby a funeral outfit? DEAR LORD!

The most devastating image in my mind to this day is when a parent gives you direct eye contact and states, “I never saw my baby dressed up before.” JESUS! “He looked so nice in that suit/dress.” “I wish I could have done this for them while they were alive.”

Many parents were so afraid that the DEPARTMENT of FAMILY SERVICE would do a DRIVE-BY in the neighborhood and by morning your children could be taken away. The old famous saying by DFS, “We just happen to be in the neighborhood.”

Yeah right, and their office was on the other side of town. PARENTS knew at that moment someone had turned them in and reported their children as latch-key kids.

Parents worked so hard night after night trying to live the dream of one day living in a nice neighborhood with the traffic being controlled so the RIF-RAF could be kept out. There it was the GATED COMMUNITY which was never open to us because of lack of ACCEPTANCE and PERCEPTION.

Once we moved in, the dream became a nightmare, and the WAR WAS ON. It did not take long to find out the RIFF-RAFF was behind the gates. We did not come here to get our children killed.

In their AAA school system, a better education didn’t promise. The educational system did everything to document our children to be placed in a separate self-contained school. All of the excessive suspensions or expulsions ran a child educations down to the ground.

It ate our children education away. The schools and their SCHOOL DISTRICT wanted to keep the RIFF-RAFF out. The SCHOOL DISTRICTS made all types of UNILATERAL DECISION going through the BACKDOOR of EDUCATION so our children would not get a FAPE (FREE APPROPRIATE PUBLIC EDUCATION).

If your child had any type of disability, any mark behaviors, your child was DOCUMENTED for JAIL or HELL. Can you imagine worrying about if anything ever came up and your child ran for any type of government position, got in trouble, or killed, what would happen?

Where is the first place they would look? You guessed it right, your child’s school records. An educational system that has lied and cheated to maintain the test score of the mainstream now has the power in their hand to smear a life and ruin a reputation forever.

Is this what happens to TRAYVON MARTIN and many other children being documented as criminals from the TIME they step into the school system for the sake of FUNDING and a TEST SCORE? LIVED IT! PAPER PLEASE! You think ARIZONA IMMIGRANTS are carrying around PAPERS. PLEASE!

Your child better be DOCUMENTED TO THE NINES and have MIKE PAPANTONIO go SCUBA DIVING for the TRUTH. It is a shame parents who advocate for their children with any type of marked behavior carries around suitcases of DOCUMENTATION.

There is no guarantee a JUDGE, a policeman, a community, or society will ever understand children/adults with disabilities. Hell! Our society has failed to understand WHAT IS RIGHT and WRONG for the MAINSTREAM. The REPUBLICANS have been GREAT TEACHERS in WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG.

Can the CASE OF THE FAKE PEOPLE who live in ROMNEYVILLE ever relate to THE PEOPLE and OUR NATION? ANNE and MITT ROMNEY could never relate to these incidents. ANNE ROMNEY birthday present was at the expense of our CHILDREN’S LIVES.

I saw the video and I did not believe one word of ANNE ROMNEY’S love story. With the money, MITT ROMNEY earned he probably had 5 maids for his 5 children. MITT ROMNEY will be producing THE HELP PART II. TRUST and RESPECT is a key factor.

The ROMNEY’S in ROMNEYVILLE has not EARNED nor has any of these characteristics. MITT ROMNEY ENDORSES unintelligent people, poor policies, believes his own lies, doesn’t believe himself, and lack social communication skills. When was the last TIME MITT ROMNEY told the TRUTH?

Does he look LEGITIMATE TO YOU? MITT ROMNEY and his wife cannot connect to everyday people because they don’t know what it is like to be hungry, live from pay check to pay check, worried about their safety or the safety of their children.

When was the last TIME the ROMNEY’S lost a family member, a friend, or a co-worker from gun violence? They certainly don’t live in my neighborhood. Do you live in their neighborhood? ROMNEYVILLE is not the real WORLD. The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a fraction of the real world.

How can MITT ROMNEY run this NATION and the PEOPLE of the NATION unless he runs it into the ground?

From my HEART TO YOUR HEART, this is what I want to remember. MICHELLE OBAMA stepped out and had an AWESOME interview with NPR. She EMBRACED the FAMILY OF TRAYVON MARTIN on the loss of their child.

It helped diminish the hurt and pain I have to live with for many years. Here is a FIRST LADY that CARES. I did not see the media CHOMPING AT THE BITS to uphold MICHELLE OBAMA for her TRUE SINCERITY. I forgot that was GOOD NEWS and a GOOD DEED. The REPUBLICANS LOVE BAD NEWS.

We as PARENTS do not want to hold candlelight visuals for our children’s DEATH. We as PARENTS want to light a CANDLE for their life and see them walk across the stage and graduate with honors and move forward. The OBAMAS are REAL PEOPLE and have made the CONNECTIONS.

A ray of light can strike MICHELLE OBAMA in the eye and however, her facial expression lands the media is trying to pick her apart. The REPUBLICANS have tried very hard to paint a cruel and an unfeeling picture of the FIRST LADY.

Compared to CRUELLA de VIL you saw what happen to SEAMUS and guess who is wearing him. I hope ANNE ROMNEY enjoyed her birthday present. It showed the PEOPLE and OUR NATION what she really stands for. OKAY DOKEY SMOKEY!

There is a SMOOTH OPERATOR that lives at 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. He has come a long way and has learned some valuable lessons. He is the PEOPLE GREETER of the WORLD.

You know how you can call a store and the person on the phone can’t talk to you right or answer any of your questions. Then you decide to make the trip to the store. Who GREETS YOU? THE PEOPLE GREETER FROM HELL.

They are not going to get your TIME, MONEY or VOTE. SMOOTH OPERATOR knows how to relate to the people. There will always be a TRUE CONNECTION with PRESIDENT OBAMA and the PEOPLE.

KNOW THIS, living in Chicago ain’t no joke. There are certain areas in the STATE of ILLINOIS is DEFINITELY KILL ME CORNER. SMOOTH OPERATOR lives in a GATED SECURED COMMUNITY now surrounded by SECRET SERVICE. LOOK how he has been treated.

NO other PRESIDENT in the HISTORY of OUR NATION has ever been treated with such HATRED, RACISM, and DISRESPECT. We don’t have to wonder anymore. The REPUBLICANS made it ALL POSSIBLE. ROMNEYVILLE is NO PLEASANTVILLE. It is where the CASE OF THE FAKE PEOPLE live.

What are the CHOICES that we have? Do you want to be the PRESIDENT? Do you want to be ME? “WON’T YOU BE, WON’T YOU BE, WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR.”

Smokelbg Life Class__ Dedicated to Oprah

by Linda Ballard

It has taken me a long TIME to get here. I’m so grateful and very appreciative to share my EXTENSION of QUALITY of LIFE with the world. To all the innovative masterminds that have allowed me to reach millions of people by the internet, Thank You.

I was puzzled when so many people became frustrated with Oprah because it took years for them to get on her show. Year after year has passed and I still haven’t got on her show. Did you hear me? HEll, I’m still ALIVE and it’s all GOOD. Year after Year!

Oprah has given out cars, trips, built schools, and funding to people all over the world to help their cause. Oprah is great a philanthropist. She has given hope to others and offered strategies, coping skills, and survival techniques.

She has laughed, cried, and worked all parts of her body to demonstrate the finest of NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS her show could offer. It is quite difficult to teach emotions. Words and body language give out more information.

A lot of information is missed if a person has NLD Syndrome. Oprah turned herself inside out.  Oprah may not have realized the great gift she has given my son. Today I get the opportunity of my LIFE to share some of her TIME.

Think about it. The next TIME you pick up a TIME ADJUSTMENT SLIP at work, step outside the workforce and think how much TIME you need to give to your LIFE. Think about who you want to share that TIME with. No matter how long it takes.

Here I am sitting in the hallway at OWN Studio. Here she comes! Good Morning Oprah, thank you for seeing me today. The last TIME Nicky NLD  (Nonverbal Learning Disability)and Sparky SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder) were here they didn’t get a chance to see you. They waited a long TIME.

I was proud of them for waiting it out. Nicky NLD has a very difficult TIME sitting in a chair for an extended period due to his coordination. He much rather sits on the floor because he has a tendency to fall out of a chair.

People have called him a clumsy idiot and stupid because of his poor balance. Sparky SPD moaned and groaned about the fabric on the seats. He kept saying it was a strange odor in the hallway. At the TIME an elevator was being worked on.

The construction work was so loud.  Nicky NLD had to literally sit on Sparky SPD to keep him from going bonkers. Sparky SPD has a sensory processing disorder. We are quite familiar with Nicky NLD’s syndrome.

We just had a refresher Course In NLD on 10/17/2011. Let me bring the viewers up to date on Sensory Processing Disorder. SPD Foundation had a writing campaign to clear up some false information and hysteria about SPD. This took place back in March.

Their goal was to have 10,000 responses by March the 4th, to bring in positive responses, and the facts about SPD. At that TIME people could register their comments on Oprah’s Website and post their letters in the section listed for ZACH’s STORY.

Sensory Processing Disorder is a neurological disorder. Our brain processes input from our environment. All of our senses need to come out to the playground along with their 2 major cousins and play.

The 5 senses and 2 cousins need to integrate or act as a team. The 5 team players consist of our vision (sight), auditory (hearing), tactile (touch), olfactory (smell), and gustation (taste).

The 2 cousins vestibular (sense of balance and movement), proprioception (the sense of knowing where one’s body movement in space) must come along for the ride. Hopefully with the wires connecting the ride will be smooth.

These are all separate wiring in the brain that needs to make a connection on the merry-go-round. If the connection is not made, there will be deficits in planning, organization, everyday life skills, self-care, work and leisure activities.

The bad misfiring of wiring to the brain will cause extreme avoidance, distress, agitation, fear, and confusion in the management to carry out one’s life in their environment. Children diagnosed with SPD mental processing are normal and have normal health.

They do very well with others as long as their external environment isn’t busy or overwhelming. Children with SPD become very sensitive to outside factors and this depends on the way the environment looks, smells and sounds.

Our 5 senses and the 2 cousins need to hop on the merry-go-round so our body won’t have difficulty processing the information in our environment. This particular disorder has UNINTENTIONAL BEHAVIORS, not caused by the parent, and is physiological.

Treatment for SPD may target life skills, social skills, and emotional behavior. There is some exceptional information on Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). Visit http://www.spdfoundation.net and you are on your way.

Dr. Phil had done a show on a young man named Zach. Apparently, Zach’s behavior was so out of control he made some attempts to hurt his parents. Smokelbg wrote a story on Getting Zach On the Right Track.

This was to give Zach and his parents support along with some strategies and coping skills. Smokelbg wanted the audience to understand ZACH’s behaviors. He was viewed by the audience as a violent and dangerous person with INTENTIONAL BEHAVIORS.

The perception that people have when they are not educated about any type of disorder makes the individual appear to be so dangerous to them and society. This very perception and judgment leave the individual ISOLATED and without a sense of community.

ISOLATION is the KISS of DEATH and invites a MENTAL DEATH to an individual which leaves the individual unable to RESURRECT oneself. Those who have misjudged encounters, bullying, sexual, social, emotional, and physical abuse.

RESURRECTION from this grave site may be very hard to achieve if the individual has been stripped of their self-esteem and self-confidence. The body, once it loses hope and sense of purpose, will lose self-determination and cease to exist.

This grave site has now become a permanent address. Smokelbg wrote a story called Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep_NLD Mother’s Prayer when you get the TIME please go back and review this story. It is posted at https://nldrecognition.wordpress.com.

I chose 5 questions from Oprah’s LIFE CLASS that I felt it was very important to share with the WORLD.

1.) What is it really that I’m supposed to be doing with my LIFE?

a.) Teaching individuals to PAY ATTENTION, helping individuals to RECOGNIZE the importance of TIME and how important it is to RESPECT TIME by cherishing and RESPECTING THE QUALITY of their LIFE.

b.) Helping individuals understand the importance of Validation.

c.) Giving Recognition to the Unrecognized- Nonverbal Learning Disability that has been overlooked by our society for 41 years.

d.) Making people aware that NLD Syndrome’s, a neurological disorder with UNINTENTIONAL BEHAVIOR is mirrored through the INTENTIONAL BEHAVIORS of people who can make the CHOICE.

e.) Writing stories, books, so NLD Syndrome is simplified/individuals will not find the information intimidating and will seek help.

f.) As a cancer survivor, I want to motivate individuals to LIVE BEYOND THE PINK.

2.) What is your gut telling you right now? What will you do about it?

a.) People are paying attention, I can hear it through their words, body language, and even what they wear.

b.) I am doing it right now by reaching out to people and getting the information out there.

3.) What are you grateful for?

a.) Being able to take whatever adversity in life and use it as a teaching tool.

b.) Having a masterful mentor and educator, my son, who has taught me whatever I CAN DO–DO.

c.) Breathing on a mirror, seeing my breath, my LIFE.

4.) What is the pain that you thought you would not survive and what got you through it?

a.) The greatest pain was loving someone more than I love myself. When I was diagnosed with cancer I realized at that moment I may not have enough love for myself to save MY OWN LIFE.

b.) When you look into the eyes of your children, family, friends, and see the fear that they have for YOUR LIFE, it all changes. The fight has begun. You want them to know you will do your best to fight back. There is enough love left to pull it off.

As your legs swing over the edge of the hospital bed and you wait for the test results to roll in, you can see the NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION at its PEAK. The silence in the room is unbearable. The body language will reveal all.

Whatever QUALITY of TIME that was designated I wanted to LIVE and LOVE MYSELF from this day FORWARD.

5.) If you were giving your last lecture what would be your best piece of advice for appreciation of life?

a.) I hope I have lived my LIFE in such a manner that even when I can no longer dress, feed myself, or bath myself someone will try to HELP ME near the END. Even in the last days of those final hours I will know, feel the love, respect, and appreciation for those who are there to mourn me. I would ask for a pillow and my mirror so I could prop my body up and say to everyone present in the room, ” I did not have to die alone.”

I would breathe on the mirror and know I had moved FORWARD from that MOMENT ON.

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep__An NLD Mother’s Prayer

by Linda Ballard

It appears that certain government officials didn’t like the language of President Barack Obama’s Speech. I did not come here to defend the President because this is a man who can PRESS ON.

MAXINE WATERS, you may like your HIGH HEELS, you may not like wearing SLIPPERS. You say you work, you march, but you are sending a mixed message to the people. There are many ways which each individual can convey their message.

It appears you have a problem with understanding what others are trying to convey or even say. Are YOU listening? Do YOU have your own AGENDA?

Being candid can give people the impression in which your straightforwardness reflects no COMPASSION, EMPATHY, or SUPPORT. My son speaks candidly. He was diagnosed with NLD Syndrome at the age of 4 years 10 months. Now that he is older he has a very strong voice and tone. He is more like Chris Christie only a DEMOCRAT. Chris Christie has a very strong tone and so far there is no recanting of what he may say. I asked my son what is it about MAXINE WATERS that is disturbing about her political stance. He said, “If you go to the CREW you will find 15 MOST CORRUPT MEMBERS of CONGRESS on this LIST”. Yes, she is on the list and she has her own agenda. He also stated she was listed for the year 2006, 2007, and 2009. The future of government lies in the hands of our younger adults. How can we trust the platform of government officials if our elder’s behaviors are so poorly?

The behavior of Elected officials in government doesn’t match the words that come from their mouths. Maxine Waters has continued to insert her foot in her mouth and videotaped her A… Yet rudeness has been placed upon the backs of those with NLD Syndrome. People diagnosed with NLD Syndrome bear the scars and wear the banners of curtness, inappropriate/unexpected behavior, behavior problems, angry/explosive and implosive behavior. Our society accused those with NLD Syndrome with acting out intentionally. Yet this behavior has been relentlessly displayed by Maxine Waters and many other government officials. You are in for a rude awakening if you know someone diagnosed with NLD Syndrome.They will wax your A… and continue to buff.

Sugar coating will never happen. Loyalty is a strong trait that NLDers carry which political officials need to borrow. Maxine Waters’ sense of loyalty will reveal itself on the evening news by once again recanting her statements. Showing her loyalty lies with her own personal agenda of having a political position in the year 2012. We are tired of our Government officials throwing each other under the bus. The behavior of our government is deplorable.

My son’s political stance is not to go golfing with John Boehner and feel comfortable with Mitch McConnell. We all know where he stands. Eric Canter blocks all and keeps everything to himself. Jim Demint’s followers, the Tea Party, are out of control. The Republicans and the Tea Party recant their statements all the TIME. As a race of people, we need to support the INTELLIGENCE OF THE MIND and those decisions which will affect the lives of not just one RACE of people but for ALL the people.

Our young adults are taking a closer look at the political figures. Herman Caine announced he was a real black man. If you have to do a public service announcement on your manhood you fall short in a lot of areas. Herman Cain, Alan West, Jessie Lee Peterson, Lloyd Marcus, Star Parker and many others who are attached at the right hip of the Right Wing Extremists will get a friendly reminder from their GRAND MOO FA.

Rush Limbaugh, Grand MOO FA, his second in command Glenn Beck, and all of FOX NEWS will make a public service announcement to Herman Caine and his BLACK JACK GANG. It will be brief. The Grand Moo FA doesn’t think that African Americans are INTELLIGENT. Herman Caine shares those same beliefs and thinks we have been brainwashed into becoming DEMOCRATS. “You People” have confused the younger African Americans and we have accomplished our goal, stated the GRAND MOO FA. On the Tyra Banks show, we saw African Americans wanting to be white. Younger adults wanting to belong to the KKK. Hell, even in grade school, smaller children are beginning to think dark skin is ugly and natural hair is nappy.

When smaller children are asked to pick out who is the smarter child, they picked out the one who is white. You guys have been just great in screwing up your race. You have served your Purpose and your services are no longer needed. “Herman Caine while you were out trying to discover your identity and put your BLACKNESS under the Microscope, I Rush Limbaugh, the Grand Moo FA, discovered something better.” You are not FREE to go. We Own you. What a Sell-Out. Price of Success.

The Congressional BLACK CAUCUS and the BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS need to understand it is not just about the POLITICS of our government. This is about the lives of the PEOPLE and what is best for the PEOPLE.

Our children’s lives should pave the way for a brighter future. Our children’s lives are at great risk and they are no longer living out the full term of their life. A parent’s worst nightmare is to see their child in a coffin surrounded by other young adults. This is a permanent TIME OUT and Recess is over. Even if our children grow up it is hard to see them incarcerated, on death row, and murdered by a senseless death. Before my children were put to bed at night they would get on their knees and pray.

Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord My soul shall keep. If I should die before I wake. I pray the Lord my soul shall take. This prayer has been modified for today’s children and young adults. Before I lay my head to rest. I pray to God I have done my best. When death comes to my soul, I pray to God my children grow old. AMEN! It is TIME TO PRESS ON. It is TIME for TIME_EXTENSION OF LIFE.

DEDICATED: To the future of our children. IN loving MEMORY of STEVE JOBS whose EXIT is NOW A PERMANENT ENTRANCE. You take a closer look at people and everything that surrounds your life. For the first TIME, the field of one’s life extends across the way. It is not dying from what you have but living with the TRUTH of what you have. The TRUTH of having your hands on DEATHS DOORWAY changes everything about you. Steve Jobs, myself, and many others who wear those shoes know what is TRULY IMPORTANT. The TRUTH is a powerful key and it will UNLOCK many doors. DISEASE AND DEATH is the LATCH that can be OPEN with the key of TRUTH. ACCEPTANCE of the TRUTH gives an extension to live. DENIAL of the TRUTH shortens the desire to fight the LATCH of DISEASE and DEATH when you finally come to grips with the TRUTH.

NLD Mom/cancer survivor

What The Hah Hell!

by Linda Ballard

Yes, you are looking at it right. It is a moment in TIME when something is said or an action has been taken and it is so unbelievable. It makes you step back and take a deep breath and really look at the person, place or the situation.

The gears in the brain begin to rotate faster, the jaws will tighten, one’s heart rate speeds up, and your eyes begin to shift from side to side. You know at this very moment what happened just aroused your suspicion, caught you totally off guard. It has rampaged through every emotion in your body. Your skeleton system is now being played like a xylophone. What comes out of your mouth is, “What The Hah Hell!” The questions start pouring in. The river will begin to overflow.

This outrageous act will be put under a microscope and scrutinized until there is nothing left for scrutiny. In the back of your mind, you are thinking “I know they didn’t go there. Did they just say…? Oh, you have crossed the line now!”

So what are you telling me? You don’t believe that yourself. You have got to be kidding me. Do you expect me to believe that? Come on now! No, you didn’t! Think of the TIMES when you have had these moments and things got so critical you went there. What words did you use? Okay, I forgot you were critical and the words you may have used were a bit stronger. There are many words to fill in the blank. Who are the people and the incidents that make you have the “What The Hah Hell” moments?

“What The Hell Moments,” can be triggered by people who never get their facts right or never seem to do the research. They make horrible comparisons. Their ideas are so conservative. Change is not on their agenda. There is no flexibility. Before you can introduce a good proposal it will get shot down. The answer will be NO. Here come the petty meetings because the people are petty. When they use the words, YES WE CAN, it is used for the destruction of the PRESIDENT. “What The Hah Hell!” What makes them appear to be POWERFUL is not their knowledge but their ability to dangle their money in front of the AMERICAN PEOPLE and DENY the PROGRESS of OUR NATION. Slavery, Bondage, Oppression, is what they want for WE THE PEOPLE and OUR NATION. It is their strategy to DIVIDE and ISOLATE so it will only be one CLASS. CLASS OF WAR will not exist if there is only the CLASS of the RICH. Who do you think are the main culprits dragging down the economy?

The ADJUSTMENT BUREAU manipulates lives. You have to stay on their path, never take risks to make any changes, and you can never choose for yourself. Your Voice will not be heard. The power lies in Salty Words, Words of Intimidation of the Abuser.

You know the Abuser image has to be larger than life. The reality will reveal the true COWARD. Once you discover behind the curtain the GREAT WIZARD has NO POLITICAL MACHINE, dammit, you are still hanging out with the GANG of Six. Toto had sense enough to split from the Gang. Steve Martin knew how that felt in the JERK. Dorothy was mad when she had awakened. She had never left the building. The meeting Dorothy attended was petty and no creation of jobs was discussed. The WHINY WOOS whined about the tax cuts for the RICH. Discussions on disaster relief, healthcare for the poor and middle class did not get a handshake. Collective bargaining was totally avoided by the WHINY WOOS. It was more important to pick the Hair Dye and Gorilla Glue for the two front-runners for the PRESIDENCY. “What The Hah Hell!” Wendy Witches sho-nuff Britches take their conspiracy theories to a new elevator ride.

To think you can set gas prices at $2.00 by drilling. The vaccine that makes you mentally retarded goes straight to the top of the elevator. “What The Hah Hell”! Wendy’s sister who thinks our PRESIDENT pals around with terrorists. She was confused. Tourist is what she really meant. Quitting the governorship just to pay your bills and run for President. “What The Hah Hell!” The Prize Winner Awards of “What The Hah Hell” are: Fox News, Bill O’Reilly, Shawn Hannity, Fox and Friends-Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, Brian Kilmeade. We can’t leave out Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Eric Bolin, Heidi Harris, Michael Savage, Lori Ingram, Lou Dobbs, and many more Walkie Talkies in the Right Wing Conservative World.

The Prize Winner Awards of “What The Hah Hell” in Government goes out to Speaker of the House John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, South Carolina Senator Jim Demint, Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina, Representative of Wisconsin and Chairman of the Budget Committee, Paul Ryan, Congresswoman of Minnesota, Michele Bachman, Former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, Governor Rick Perry of Texas, Former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney, Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, Governor of Florida Rick Scott, Governor of Ohio, John Kasich and many who is attending the Dysfunctional Family Reunion.

The Prize Winner Awards of “What The Hah Hell” Moments in History goes out to the following: Congressman Alan West who compared himself to Harriet Tubman. John Boehner compared government spending to Crack Cocaine and who also stood there clapping for the President’s speech not realizing Pass This Bill Right Now got him excited and was the right thing to do. Congressman Anthony Wiener being confused on how to appropriately use FaceBook and Twitter. The Tea Party Republicans shutting down the government and trying to make a second attempt. Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado calling the President a Tar Baby was A Bridge Too Far. Rush Limbaugh comparing the President to an Oreo Cookie was insane. John Kasich of Ohio and Scott Walker of Wisconsin were stripping Union Rights and making unilateral decisions. Sit back and think of your “What The Hah Hell” moment. I’m quite sure you can come up with at least three or maybe more.

The most recent “What The Hah Hell” Moment was the Execution of Anthony Troy Davis. It was a Rainy Night In Georgia. There is also a “Moment of AHA.” This is the moment of Discovery, Truth, and Vindication. “AHA”! Justice has not been served. What does this have to do with NLD? Bottom line it is a brief moment in History which demonstrates what is RELEVANT and what is IRRELEVANT. It demonstrates what can be said that can make your MAD-O-METER rise to 2.00 minutes. The POPCORN IS READY! It also demonstrates the double standards of what can be said by the so-called normal community. What would happen if people with NLD Syndrome acted in this manner? Isn’t this Hypocrisy? From the Flip side of the Chart. Keeping it Real for NLD SKILLS.

Dedicated: To all the men and women in prison Wrongly convicted, serving a life sentence, and on Death Row.

Got No Time To Be Disabled

by Linda Ballard

Scene:  Trevon, a young man going to school in the urban school district, has agreed to meet Smokelbg at an outside cafe for lunch.  Trevon talks about his life in the city. He tells how he views the educational system and what he thinks of being disabled.

Smokelbg:

Hey Trevon!  I’m glad you showed up. You had me worried. I thought you might have changed your mind.

Trevon: I’m always late. Three weeks ago I got fired from my job at Wendy’s. If I had been reading your blog, I could have told the old dude that I had a disability. Knowing him, he would fire me again. My mama says black folks are always late. They will be late for their own funeral. I would call it the haters-late disability.

Smokelbg:

Why would you call it that?

Trevon:

They’re mad and sitting there complaining about you being late. They didn’t get up and leave. That’s all they had to do.  All they want to do is run around and tell everybody you were late.  Hater!  Do you believe all that stuff you write?  Man, that’s a lot of stuff. I started not to go to your site.

Smokelbg:

Why? The deal was I tell your story and you read the blog.

Trevon:

It didn’t have nothing to do with the deal. The last time I got on a website it looked like a giant video game. I couldn’t follow what they wanted me to read. I started pushing buttons and then I couldn’t remember what the person wanted me to do. You think that is a disability too?  There is so much stuff written on your blog that sounds like what my friends, family, and my enemies all say.

Smokelbg:

Yes, it could have something to do with your attention span. You might get easily distracted.

Trevon:

It could have something to do with where I live. There is so much going on around me that I must have people watching my back. Yeah, you call them grand guardians. I like that name.

Smokelbg:

The purpose of the grand guardians is to make sure the person that is disabled doesn’t get taken advantage of.

Trevon:

Well, that wouldn’t be me. I will do them before they could do me. That is just the way it is done. Survival lady.

Smokelbg:

What about your enemies?

Trevon:

My enemies used to be my friends and now they are haters.

Smokelbg:

It doesn’t bother you to have these haters?

Trevon:

Too many people in your business can get you killed.

Smokelbg:

What are you doing that can cost you your life?

Trevon:

Who said you had to be doing anything?   Last month my friend was getting gas at a service station and he got shot at. I have gone to at least three to four funerals within two weeks time. You know where I stay? You can empty your garbage without thinking about it. I might be the one that is taken out for garbage.

Smokelbg:

What do you plan to do to after you graduate from school?

Trevon:

Hold up, who said I plan on graduating?  Back up for a minute. I got to find a job because my old girl( mom) is on my case about moving.  I will soon be turning 18 years old and she wants me up out of there.

Smokelbg:

What if you are not ready to be on your own? What if you needed added support?

Trevon:

It doesn’t matter, you gotta go.

Smokelbg:

Tell me how your day starts before you go to school?

Trevon:

Man, I got to listen to my old girl go off about the bills, how my daddy left her in a bind, and I was going to be just like my no-good daddy.  Aunt Martha, my dad’s sister, broke up the marriage between my dad and the old girl. How can somebody break up your marriage just because the sister doesn’t have anything to do with the old girl?   The old girl is a drama queen.  My dad was smart when he left. He got tired of hearing all that noise from the old girl. I will be glad to get up out of here. I can’t take too much more in this house.  All this takes place before I can even eat breakfast.

Smokelbg:

I take it that you and your mom don’t get along.

Trevon:

The old girl got some issues. Her whole family got some severe issues.   I would hate for something to happen to me. Just the thought of the old girl’s family getting any of my kids scares me to death.

Smokelbg:

Do you have any kids?

Trevon:

Noooo. I don’t want any.  I wouldn’t want to bring them up around here.

Smokelbg:

What’s your day like at school?

Trevon :

When I go to school,  it is social time. I mostly hang out. As soon as someone does something crazy, then it is black you are under attack time.

Smokelbg;

What does that mean?

Trevon

The school rounds up everyone who was in the area and goes through their list. You know I’m on the list for BD (behavior disorder). The funny thing is everybody has got a problem in the city. You call it a diagnosis. Man those words are tight.

I know I’m going to act up at some point. It’s too crowded in the classroom and they got me sitting too far back. I get angry when it is cut up time and I’m out.

Smokelbg:

Have you told your mom the problems you are having in school?  I’m sure she would want to come and talk to the teachers and help fix the problem.

Trevon:

You really believe your own stories. The old girl is the problem.  We don’t connect like that. Why do you think I work?  It sure is not to help pay bills. Ole girl is on that end.

Smokelbg:

Can you explain that to me? I’m not quite sure….. There are several things that come to my mind when you say that.

Trevon:

Well, in this neighborhood there is only one answer. She’s whacked and on crack. This is her way out of the neighborhood. Yeah, my mom as you call her(getting really upset). You know what,  I’m not going out like that. When old girl gets low it ain’t pretty.

Smokelbg:

Let me know if you want to finish another day.

Trevon:

You are not getting out of this. I had to read all those crazy stories and that was the deal… (lifts his head and smiles). I’m good, it’s okay. Whenever I talk about old girl it …..

Smokelbg:

Hey, you want some dessert?

Trevon:

Sure, you know you are paying. True Dat.

Smokelbg:

Which one of the stories do you like?

Trevon:

I like the football stories. I’m really into sports.  I like the Darlene Dyslexia story because I  kind of feel I do some of those things as far as reading and pronouncing my words that way. The St. Patrick’s Day story is it.  This is the neighborhood I live in. Catrina Schizo ain’t nobody but Aunt Jackie.  I love me some Aunt Jackie. She is out there.

Everybody in this neighborhood has got some kind of label.  Where did you get all those fancy doctors?  I’m lucky if I go to the dentist and get my teeth pulled. I never heard of no neuro…..whatever.  Stuff like that must cost a fortune.  See people in this neighborhood got to be on guard all the time. Those doctors don’t understand that we ain’t got no time to be disabled. As soon as we get disabled then we get taken out of the box. We look crazy to them because the people in this neighborhood know this is the only way of surviving. This is our way of keeping others out and protecting ourselves. We know who belongs and who don’t. It is time for  Trevon to shed this label because I want more.

I just wanted to tell you that you were not going to get any better education in the burbs than in the city. Remember, you are black and under attack and that’s whacked.

Smokelbg:

Trevon, I appreciate you for all of your time. This has been a true eye opener for me and I really learned a lot today. I sincerely want to see you make it and fulfill your dreams.

Trevon:

This ain’t no dream. This is Trevon coming at you live and raising the hell up out of here.

Smokelbg:

I was really concerned about Trevon and how he viewed being disabled, his school, and life.  Here is something that I found very interesting to help validate Trevons theories on labeling people.

Advisory Alert: Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General

Chapter 4 Adults and Mental Health: Schizophrenia

Overview:  Cultural Variation in this section 2nd paragraph it discusses clinicians misinterpretation and misdiagnosis of patients of diverse backgrounds. This is due to the norm of emotional expressions, social behavior, and cognitive style is address by professionals who are truly qualified to do so. See Chapter 2 and Center for Mental Health Services[CMHS], 1997. One finding is that African-American patients are more likely than whites to be diagnosed with severe psychotic disorders in clinical settings (Snowden & Cheung, 1990; Hu et al., 1991; Lawson et al., 1994, Strakowski et al., 1995)

The interpretation of the overdiagnosis of psychotic disorders among African-Americans is reviewed as clinician bias. Find out about other cultures. Go to http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/chapter4/sec4.html#course.

No Shame In Their Game On ST. Patrick’s Day

by Linda Ballard

Scene: Tyrone Tourette, known as TS (cousin of Bobby Tourette), is having drinks and conversing at an Iris Pub called Slimery Otoole. Tyrone Tourette and Catrina Schizophrenia give some background information on themselves. Nicky NLD is waiting for the story to be told on how St.Patrick’s Day got started.  Tyrone Tourettes, before he gets too much green beer in his system, will tell the story. Nicky NLD is running out of patience.

Tyrone Tourette:

Nicky,  look at how crowded Slimery Otoole is tonight. It’s jammed packed. Tyrone is going to take you on his TS tour. I’ll Take You There just like the Staple Singers and tell you how St. Patrick’s Day came into existence.

Nicky NLD:

Tyrone are you sure you don’t want me to tell the story?

Tyrone Tourette:

Why should you tell the story?

Nicky NLD:

Once your tics kick in, it could get messy.

Catrina Schizophrenia:

What are Tics?

Tyrone Tourette:

Catrina Schizo, I have this neurological disorder where people describe me as having strange body movement over and over.  Some people have this image in their head of me having involuntary movement and making noises called tics. I don’t like to be stereotyped.

Catrina Schizo:

I feel you on that one Tyrone. I have this severe brain disorder that disables me from being able to carry out my life. People try to stereotype me and say that I hear voices others don’t hear. They say I believe other people are reading my mind, controlling my thoughts, and I’m plotting to harm someone.

Tyrone Tourette:

Catrina Schizo that IS what you do.

Catrina Schizo:

Wait a minute Tyrone… The key word is I MAY do these things… MAY, okay?

Tyrone Tourette:

Let me get your key and unlock your door. You are talking to Tyrone baby, I know what you do.

Nicky NLD;

Come on TS,  ease up off of Catrina  Schizo. This is a big deal for her. Remember we use to force her to talk. We knew when she didn’t take her medication and wasn’t in therapy.  I did not like seeing her in a catatonic state. She shut down as tight as a drum and was upset about it. I mean agitated.

Tyrone Tourette:

Look at you Nicky NLD, using analogies. I remember when you didn’t do double meanings.

Nicky NLD:

I have gotten better. As long as the person who uses the analogy explains it right away.  I won’t get lost in the conversation. Are you going to tell the story or not?

Tyrone Tourette:

Be patient Nicky NLD. I want people to know some things about me and Catrina Schizo. There is no shame in our game.

Nicky NLD:

You are right. People learned about me in the Who In The World Is NLD. Go ahead, man. Do your thang.

Tyrone Tourette:

Tourette’s syndrome (TS) is noticed around 7-10 years of age. It shows no prejudice. Tourette’s syndrome can affect anyone. Men are affected three times more than women. It can last a lifetime. In one’s teens, it can get butt-ugly. Later on, they may improve in the late teens on into their adulthood.

Catrina Schizo:

I want to learn more about your motor tics.

Tyrone Tourette:

Sure, sometimes they are simple motor tics. These are brief and I don’t use a lot of muscles. I can have eye blinking, making faces (grimaces),  jerking the head or shoulders or shrugging shoulders. With vocalizing tics I will clear my throat repetitively, sniffing, making grunting sounds, or barking. I use more muscle with complex tics. You can get the combo like at McDonald. I can make faces, twist my head and shrug my shoulders. There are times when people think that I’m doing the other complex tics on purpose. These are hopping, jumping, bending, sniffing, twisting, and touching objects. There are times when I have phrases of words that sound like jibber-jabber. It can get really bad if I do harm to myself and I punch myself in the face, or the cursing (coprolalia) or echolalia (repeating word or phrases of others).  Who do you know that does that hopping around thing?  Don’t answer that. That is another story another day.

Catrina Schizo:

I bet people think you are crazy.

Tyrone Tourette:

How are you going to call somebody crazy?  Are you sure this is me you are talking to and not someone you think you see or hear?

Catrina Schizo:

Do you really want to find out if I’m violent are not? You know, I have grown pretty fond of you. Sometimes we have the tendency to hurt the ones we are closest to.

Tyrone Tourette:

Girl, don’t make me unfriend you and push the button. I do have a Facebook account and I will Tweet you out.

Nicky NLD:

Is your collar on that shirt too tight around your neck? I hope your shirt is the right size. The last time you had neck tics.

Tyrone Tourette:

It’s all good. The last time I had tried to suppress my tics,  it only made them worse. I do better when my tics are expressed. Letting it build up is not good for me at all. A lot of times people think I’m doing this on purpose. I don’t know what causes Tourettes Syndrome. Let’s put it this way, I have unintentional behaviors that I don’t plan. It happens and my brains play a big part in the way I react. These neuro-behavioral problems can be caused by not paying attention, hyperactivity, and being impulsive. The guys (disorders) that hang out with me and are associated with me is OCD and ADHD. Even though my buddies know I can suffer from depression and anxiety they still remain to be my friends.

Hey, Catrina Schizophrenia you are up to bat. Tell us about yourself.

Catrina Schizo:

I have some positive symptoms about me.

Nicky NLD:

Is that positive good or positive bad?

Tyrone Tourette:

How can a positive symptom be bad?

Nicky NLD:

Tyrone TS, you are full of your ignorant oil (liquor). You can be HIV Positive, that is not good, and you could be like Catrina Schizophrenia, very delusional and not being able to face reality.

Catrina Schizo:

If you guys let me finish, I’ll tell you the rest.

Tyrone Tourette:

Ahhhhh Yeah Baby, Take us there (too much to drink).

Catrina Schizo:

As long as I take my meds, I’ll do okay. I do have psychotic behavior. Sometimes I lose touch with reality. This can come or go. Right now I’m not the healthiest person.Yes, I do hallucinate. I just really need to keep up with my treatment.

Tyrone Tourette:

I’m hallucinating right now.

Nicky NLD:

Tyrone you have enough green beer and Irish cream Whiskey in you already. I can’t tell you from Catrina Schizo.

Catrina Schizo:

It’s not like that Tyrone. I hear voices. My voices talk to me about the way I’m behaving. My voices order me to do things, alert me to dangers, and my voices can talk to each other.I had been hearing voices for a very long time before my family found out.  Bruce Willis could see people in the movie Sixth Sense. I see people too. I can feel people touching me. I can smell odors that others can”t smell. People try to tell me it’s nothing there but I know for a fact I see objects.

Tyrone Tourette:

You got some skills. Did you take your meds before you came out? You still go to treatment?

Nicky NLD:

Let her finish.

Tyrone Tourette:

Just checking Baby, this is the TS.  I did not want my tics to come out and play.

Catrina Schizo:

I am delusional. Many times people have proven me wrong and showed me what I am believing isn’t true. My delusions can get pretty bizarre. One time I thought Rachel Maddow was broadcasting my thoughts on her  TV program. Chaka Khan was out impersonating me. My boyfriend, Kanye West was mad because my album came out before his. He started cheating on me, then he tried to poison me. I reported him to the police for harassment. He had been spying on me for months.

Tyrone Tourette:

Your mind works like that for real?  Girl, I will trade you my disorder. I hope Jennifer Hudson got over me. I know she got married but she still wants me. Right.

Catrina Schizo:

These are things I believe. It is called delusions of persecution.

Tyrone Tourette:

Wooooh, I think you sobered me up. I have got to keep my eyes on you.

Catrina Schizo:

Sometimes it’s hard organizing my thoughts to make logical sense. I talk nonsensical and in garble. It is hard to understand me. I have thought to block. When I am talking to a person it feels like someone kidnapped my thoughts. You know what, I can even make up meaningless words called neologisms.

Nicky NLD:

I know someone who acts this way.

Tyrone Tourette:

Who?

Nicky NLD:

My girlfriend.

Tyrone Tourette:

Oh Man, you sure you don’t want to crash at my house until you have a talk with your girlfriend?

Nicky NLD:

Thanks for the offer but I can’t prolong what I suspected all the time.

Tyrone Tourette:

The offer stands whenever you are ready.

Catrina Schizo:

I’m not finished. I have body movement that I do over and over when I get agitated but not like yours Tyrone Tourette. Back in the day when there was little treatment, I would be in that catatonic state not responding to others. My main course meal is I hear voices. The negative symptoms are tricky and hard to identify. People mistake them for depressions or other symptoms. It disrupts ones normal emotion and behaviors. You notice how Meridia’s face doesn’t move (flat affect) and her voice is dull. It always seems to be monotone. No matter how hard she tries she never sticks to her planned activities. You have to stick a crowbar in her mouth to force her to speak.  She needs help with everyday tasks and I would constantly get on her about her hygiene. She was a hot mess. I thought she was lazy and trifling but this was all because she is schizophrenic. Nicky NLD you remember Rita?

Nicky NLD:

Yeah, I had a crush on Rosy Cheeks Rita. What happens to her?

Catrina Schizo:

She had some psychological testing. Her working memory wasn’t working. She didn’t have the ability to use information immediately after she learned it. Rita never stayed in focus or paid attention. Rita had problems with understanding the information to make a decision. This is called poor executive functioning. Cognitive symptoms are hard to find unless they are tested for.  These symptoms are understated. It was hard for her to keep a job, lead her life, and she was emotionally stressed out.

Nicky NLD;

That is a lot of information on my homegirl. Hey, can we get to the story now?

Tyrone Tourette:

Yeah, this is the new and improved Clarence Update.  St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated on March the 17. This is the day that St.Patrick died. We associate this day with the color green,  leprechauns, fairies, shamrocks, snakes, corn beef and cabbage, Irish music, green beer and Irish Creme Whiskey, and of course the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

The Shamrock was a sacred plant that represented the rebirth of spring. The Celts called it a “seamroy”. The shamrock later represented the Irish breaking out and expressing themselves and taking pride in their culture and advocating for rights to be who they are. The English began to take over the Irish land and they didn’t want the Irish to speak their language nor practice their religion, which was Catholicism. The Irish said, “screw this we are wearing our shamrock and since we like the music we are going to sing it to the tune of Kool Moe Dee, How You Like Me Now”.  This pissed Queen Lizzy No.1 off.  Every artist and piper that was Irish got the ax. Nicky NLD you really are going to like this.

The Celts expressed themselves verbally. Since the APA(American Psychiatric Association) won’t open up a community for you this would have been the perfect place.  They rocked the house with their verbal expression of storytelling, singing, and dancing. Their oral culture of religion, history, and their folklore was passed down through the ages.

They got a little depressed but they never stopped singing “I’m Coming Out” by Diana Ross. Since they never gave up, today they’ve got popular bands like the Chieftains, Clancy Brothers, and Tommy Makem. You just keep singing that tune “Hold on I’m Coming” by Sam and Dave.

That story about the snakes was made up. St Patrick didn’t go up on a rock and banish thousands of snakes.  He took his behind up there. He drove his Orkin’s truck and pulled out his Real Kill snake spray gun. The snakes were a metaphor to get rid of the idea of worshiping all those crazy statutes the English worshiped.  Their traditional meal was always cabbage and corn beef.  Corn beef didn’t show up until the turn of the century.  The corned beef got pricy. So the Irish immigrants, now living in New York City on the lower east side, found a way to save money by bringing home the bacon and frying it up in a pan. They got the hook up from their Jewish neighbors and all went well.  Then you had shorty running around. These were the leprechauns known as “”.

Little dudes with tree stump bodies.  They were so paranoid about their pot of gold. They used voodoo, hoodoo, and doo doo to protect their funds.  The Leprechauns didn’t have anything to do with St. Patrick’s day. Do you see how lies get started?  In 1959 Walt Disney got creative and threw the leprechauns in the mix.  In 1962 Chicago River has become famous for being dyed green on St. Patrick’s Day.  The Irish grew in numbers and became the Green Machine and gain Respect just like Aretha Franklin’s song. They are no longer considered the Drunken Monkeys.

Catrina Schizo:

Can you get me a date with one of those little guys?

Nicky NLD:

See what you did, Tyrone Tourette. You know Catrina Schizo doesn’t need any more false reality in her head.

WARNING: To all those who read this story…  if there is anything in this story that sounds like you,  a friend or a family member, get to a doctor immediately. We don’t want any Shame In Your  Game.

Look of Love NLD Valentines’s Day

by Linda Ballard

The Scene opens with a loving couple talking to each other.

Cynthia:

Did you bring me that special edition of Ebony Magazine?

Leon:

Yes, I did.

Cynthia:

I”m talking about the one that has the three different covers on it.

Leon:

I got this baby girl.

Cynthia:

Is it the edition with the Obama’s on it?

Leon:

Yes, it is.

Cynthia:

Does it say 15 Hottest Couples?

Leon:

Okay, stop right there. You’re rocking my list. That was eight questions. When you sent me to the store, you gave me too many directions. You wanted the magazine, avocados and hair dye. I forgot the other stuff.  So I went back to pick up BeBe so he could help me out.

Cynthia:

You went to Bebe’s house!  Is that why it took you so long?

Leon:

Bebe is my interpreter. We have been hanging out together for years. He’s my trusted friend and he has my back.

Cynthia:

Yeah right, Bebe is a knucklehead.

Leon:

Hey, you don’t need to be dissing my friend.  I have a hard time multitasking. If you just give me 3-5 things to do, I will be just fine.  But girl, you went on and on.

Cynthia:

So, are you telling me that I worked your nerves?

Leon:

Hey, I did not say that. I’m saying that if you give me too many directions it’s going to set me up for failure.  Baby, I have problems with multitasking.  It is on my list.

Cynthia:

You and your list.  All I asked you to do is get me a few things from the store, stop at Arnesha,  get my curling iron and pick up my dress from the cleaners. You forgot that but you didn’t forget Bebe.  Since he is your interpreter, why don’t you marry him? Interpret that!

Leon:

Ooh, don’t tempt me, girl.

Cynthia:

What did you say?

Leon:

My friends Andre Autism, Arnell Asperger and Ace ADHD have the same problem with staying focused and multitasking.

Cynthia:

No Leon, your friends have problems with their names all starting with A. There are 26 letters in the alphabet.  Is that all their parents can come up with is the letter A?

Leon:

Come on. Your friends name Arnesha.

Cynthia:

Leon, don’t go there.  Just bring me the magazine and tell me what you see. Okay, come over here.  Are you paying attention?

Leon:

Yeah, baby.

Cynthia:

Well…?

Leon:

Michelle and Barack have pretty teeth.

Cynthia:

Get out of here.  You did not just say that.  They’re smiling.  Check out the look in their eyes.  Leon, this is the look of passion and true love.

Leon:

Girl, you are over the top. So I am supposed to see all that from a look on their faces in a magazine photo?  Right.

Cynthia:

You never look at me anyway when I’m talking to you. Hell, I will take a cross-eyed look right about now…  Anything!

Leon:

Cynthia it is going to make you mad. It is on my list.

Cynthia:

Here we go. I’m so tired of that list. Where Leon? Show it to me.

Leon:

It is right there with nonverbal communication. That’s why I can’t look at you or tell you what mood you are in. I can’t read facial expressions.  This has an effect on the way I act toward your friends. You get on me about that television show, Lie To Me. It teaches facial expression and body languages.  I’m really trying to learn.

Cynthia:

Oh, Leon, my friends will help you.

Leon:

Thanks, baby, I’ll keep looking at the program… and I’ll keep reading this book on different cultures and what their gaze means.

Cynthia:

Leon, I didn’t know you could read.  Just kidding.

Leon:

If we were Asians and we gazed at each other like that,  it could mean that we are rude, aggressive and disrespectful.  Japanese lower their gaze in respect. Our culture is more flirtatious. In some cultures, it means that you are putting a spell on someone by giving them the evil eye.  They even did a study on children who tested and gave better answers when they were not looking at the examiner.  It takes a lot of mental processing when you are looking at someone.  The children that look at the examiner did not do as well.  Hey, it is just a theory.

Cynthia:

Wow, Leon, that is really interesting.

Leon:

Cynthia… about your girlfriend Arnesha…

Cynthia:

Yeah, Leon.

Leon:

She has SAD

Cynthia:

No Leon, don’t you mean she IS sad?

Leon:

No, SAD means social anxiety disorder. She is petrified of embarrassing herself. Arnesha has an intense fear of people talking about her. Whenever Arnesha comes over here and we are going to the party, she starts pouring on the alcohol. She starts shaking, complaining that she has nausea, and pouring out the sweats. Did we ever make it to the party?  I know that is your homegirl,  but you really need to talk to her about seeing a doctor.

Cynthia:

Oh, Leon, I didn’t know you cared.

Leon:

I don’t.  She is drinking up all my Hennessy. Just kidding!  Gotcha back.

Cynthia:

Leon, I see you’re getting better with the jokes. Boy, I’m going to grey you up yet.

Leon:

I just wanted to include Arnesha… I know how it feels to be left out.

Cynthia:

Leon, I’m so proud of you. You have really come a long way.

Leon:

Cynthia, I really appreciate you too.  I know it has been hard for you but thanks for hanging out.

Cynthia:

Leon, can you try to give me that look Barack is giving Michelle?

Leon:

Girl it’s going to take a long time before I master that one. Will you hang tough with me that long?

Cynthia:

Well, as long as you keep trying.  For now, I will take Alicia and Swizz or we can go for a Will and Jada smile and gaze.

Leon:

Baby, try not to rock my list. It took lots of work getting me to express my feelings. Just please be patient and together we will achieve one skill at a time.  At least I’m not Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore in Ghost saying “Ditto”.

Cynthia:

I love you, Leon.

Leon:

Happy Valentine’s Day Cynthia.

Cynthia:

Good Night.

Superbowl Game Time, Rockin’ the List

by Linda Ballard

For the first time in the forty-year history of the franchise … the NLD’ers.   It has been a painstaking miniseries and a Pee Wee Herman’s Big Adventure, but it finally paid off.  The fans are quite mystified by the NLD’ers.  They have been around for years but no one has been scoping them out.

Walk with me.  I see Commissioner District.  Commissioner District can you tell me anything about the NLD’ers?  “No, who in the hell are these guys and what spectrum do they come from?”  The Commissioner commented:  “I know about Aspergers and my money on them.”

Aspergers is a tough team to beat.  They are not very sociable.  It is not that making friends and developing relationships don’t matter, but they only hold one special interest.  They go on and on about that interest and people become frustrated and think they are boring or only into themselves.  Well, it won’t be any love lost between the NLD’ers and the Aspies.  There will be no Hollywood hugs and kisses between them.

So, Bobby Tourette, what is the big rivalry between the NLD’ers and the Aspies?   Remember we have kids in the house, just hold the cursing down!  Well, the NLD’ers hold many interests.  They can converse on any topic.  The Aspies think that NLD’ers is the know-it-all.  NLD’ers volume gets pumped up on their vocals and then they’re in your face and in your space.  This is not intentional.  Hey, I get along with the NLD’ers.  The Aspies will let you know they are not interested.  You might as well find someone or something else to do.

Mark Autism you have been in the game for over thirty years.  You know what it is like to be Number #1.  What is your perspective on the game?  Jack PDD-NOS  it is like being at the top of the Billboard’s records chart. This is a very recognizable label.  You know how that works Jack PDD-NOS. Take, for instance, you are a little bit of this and a little of that and not enough to qualify for anyone’s team.  You need a real label.  Dr. Psych.  despises you.  Dude, get rid of the NOS (not otherwise specified) and you can come out and play with the big boys.  People might think you are that NOS caffeine drink.

Andre ADHD pays attention and tries to stay focused on the commentary,  but he can’t put the Munch and Crunch down.  How do you think the NLD’ers will do against the Aspies?  Well, Mark Autism,  this will be a bloodbath.  Right now,  Aspergers is pretty hot under the collar.  Dr. Psych and his followers decided to drop the Aspies off the list and put them down with NOS, of all players.  Do you know this will affect their insurance, state funding, and definitely affect their educations?

We are in for one hell of a game. I don’t know why they would have picked the American Psychiatric Association to moderate the game.  When the Aspies see the APA they are going to go off and start cursing like Bobby Tourette.  They are so focused on the list.  I wonder will they be able to play the game?  Do not mess with the Aspies special interest. The NLD’er just might pull this one-off. They have a lot going on. Winning this game means a lot to the underdog. For the first time in the history of forty years, there will be more testing, state funding, insurance coverage, school reformation, and they will be recognizable. NLD’ers will take their rightful place on the DSMV, hold their trophy in the air and wave it like they just don’t care. Keep your heads to the sky and they will be Rockin’ the List.