No Pop You!
These are a few of my favorite quotes from the people with cognitive disabilities that I have known.
1. I know what’s wrong with me now. I went to the doctor today and found out I have a blubber (meaning bladder) infection.
2. I have a signalism (stigmatism) in my eye. (Now we know why all the guys hung out at her apartment.)
3. Hey Edna! I just had a wild hair up my brain storm! (Meaning a good idea!)
4. You are so prettiful!
5. I don’t want to go to the slammer! (This after she had broken the law and we asked her what happened to people on television who did that.)
6. If a feller doesn’t want to have fun a feller shouldn’t have to have fun. (This man had so many activities scheduled he couldn’t relax. The staff were trying to convince him to go play basket ball and “have fun”)
7. No Pop You! (This man said this to the staff whenever they did something he didn’t like … it was the worst punishment he could imagine for them.)
8. I need to buy Hair Poo and Savvy Hose.
9. I want a real date, with a cheerleader, up on the hill, to see the view.
10. Well I’m not color blind! (This man wanted a job sorting colored wires but he was blind. When we told him he couldn’t do it because he was blind that is what he said.)
I love these! I miss my friends from Arc. What great friends we made there.
I miss the sense of humor of some of my friends there. One of my favorites was when I was walking Lynn through the parking lot to Blockbuster video and he started singing, “My baby does the hanky panky!!” at the top of his lungs in his deep booming voice as he wrapped his arm around me. He knew how embarrassed I was and he got a kick out of it.
They were constantly being underestimated by outsiders and it was fun to get to know them and realize their potential.