Is It Always N Behavior to Violate Others' Boundaries?

[BonesMS]

http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby

[BonesMS]

I can NEVER understand people who refuse to respect boundaries and refuse to respect the word "No"!

I was discussing allergies with a couple of other people and what I learned had my jaw on the floor!  In one case, a child with a SEVERE allergy to nuts kept politely telling this adult, "No, thank you.", to their insistence that the child eat a cookie LOADED with nuts!  The adult pulled a power-play on the child and when the child ate the nut-laden cookie, he turned blue and 9-1-1 had to be called!  Thankfully, the child survived!

In the second case, when a mother and 7-year-old son attended a social event, the child wore a name tag that CLEARLY stated, "I am SEVERELY allergic.  Please do not offer me food or water."  (He's also allergic to chlorine that is in the water.)  Well, this DINGBAT insisted on giving this 7-year-old child candy that was LOADED with nuts, caramel, chocolate, etc.  His mother reminded the DINGBAT that her son is ALLERGIC and he CANNOT eat the candy without landing in the Emergency Room!  DINGBAT responds, "Well, he can just hold onto it and give it away to a child who isn't allergic!"  WTF?!?!?!?     This DINGBAT expected a 7-year-old to be immune to candy!!!

What is WRONG with people?!?!?!?

What's even scarier is the possibility that some N who insists that allergies do NOT exist and will go to any length to prove it by playing "Gotcha!" on someone with a SEVERE allergy!  They can KILL someone doing THAT!!!!

[BonesMS]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence.html

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https://www.creators.com/read/at-work-lindsey-novak

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Reading today's advice columns is setting off PTSD triggers!

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[BonesMS]

Still dealing with medical issues and not feeling that great this morning.   

[Gaining Strength]

Hope you feel better soon. 

I see your post the other day about reading the advice column.  Were you able to manage your way though ok?

[BonesMS]

Hope you feel better soon. 

I see your post the other day about reading the advice column.  Were you able to manage your way though ok?

Thanks, GS.

I was able to manage through it ok.  I just get so frustrated at some of the advice I see.

[BonesMS]

https://www.creators.com/read/annies-mailbox/04/16/lightly-stepping-on-barefoot-issue

Regarding LW2, there are also people with invisible disabilities who also need to use the grab bars when getting on and off the toilet, just saying.

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Dear Abby is getting more and more frustrating!   

[BonesMS]

https://www.creators.com/read/annies-mailbox/04/16/lightly-stepping-on-barefoot-issue

Regarding LW2, there are also people with invisible disabilities who also need to use the grab bars when getting on and off the toilet, just saying.

Regarding the invisible disabilities, back in 1981 I participated in a demonstration in downtown DC to protest the proposed block grants that would have badly impacted all people with disabilities.  During the march to the Capitol building, my chronic condition flared up and one of my knees exploded to the size of a basketball, causing me to be unable to put any weight on that leg at all.  One of the other marchers got me a wheelchair so that I could finish the march.

Because I had been able to walk earlier during the march, another marcher started screaming at me for "faking" until I rolled up my pants leg and showed him my basket-ball-sized knee, which shut him up immediately!  I looked him square in the eye and said:  "See?  Not all disabilities are visible!"