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tayana

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Interesting Article
« on: June 07, 2007, 10:57:26 AM »
I found this article today while searching for something else.  I thought it was a really interesting read, and so appropriate to my current situation.

http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/andrew_vachss.html
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot
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Re: Interesting Article
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2007, 01:57:22 PM »
You're welcome, CB.  I went to the link you posted as well, and there were some great articles there as well.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a counselor, but I let my family talk me out of that.  They told me, you don't want to listen to other people's problems all day.  I wanted to work with victims of domestic violence and rape.  I had not been a victim of either, but I wanted to help those people.  I identified with them, even though I didn't really understand why.  I think that article sort of put that in perspective for me, why I always identified with other victims.  They were like me.  We'd suffered. 

I thought about doing the couseling thing again when my son was diagnosed with autism.  I wanted to prevent other parents from going through the nightmare I went through with the school system and just getting a diagnosis.  I finally let it go again, I couldn't figure out how I would go back to school.  There were no evening programs offered then, and I had to work.

I write novels and short stories, and often my characters are victims of abuse.  After I wrote the book I just submitted a few weeks ago, about a young man who's partner abused him, I started thinking about that counseling thing again.  I started thinking how I'd really like to do that, to work with other people and help them.  Maybe that's in my future too.  I do definitely think that once my son and I move, I'm going to look into some volunteer work, something we can both do and learn from.
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really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot
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Re: Interesting Article
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2007, 02:49:03 PM »
Tayana,

WOO HOO.

I like your thinking!

 :)

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Re: Interesting Article
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2007, 07:17:23 PM »
wow good article!! thx for posting it