wow, I would say "i may have cp but I'm not poor. " 

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> [Original Message]
> From: Linda Walker <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 3/14/2006 1:01:15 PM
> Subject: Re: New to list - intensive suit therapy - hand surgery?
>
> I think that was great that someone made that magnificent gesture 
> with the camera. Giving is a good value for sure. Perhaps I was wrong 
> to be offended. Maybe we are always wrong to be offended. We are all 
> just doing the best we can under difficult circumstances. I won't 
> tell Case anything though as I did not let him know my feeling and so 
> many adults tell him so many things, I think it is ok to let him 
> figure this one out for himself. He is a kid with an incredible sense 
> of fairness who never taunts or teases others even when they do so to 
> him. I have been a little distraught watching this lately.
>
> At 10:05 AM 3/14/2006, you wrote:
> >I don't know about that Linda, I was in Kansas City for three years,
getting
> >my graduate degree, and was interested in getting a 35mm auto-focus SLR
> >camera.  For those who don't know, SLR's were manually focused up until
1985
> >when Minolta came out with their line of Maxxum Cameras.   I was
interested
> >in getting one of their cameras, so I went to Dolgins, a store like
Target
> >in Kansas City, to look at one. I ended up putting one on layaway, and
> >paying a third down.  When I went back to pay the remaining 2 thirds of
the
> >layaway, the clerk told me the camera was mine, free and clear.  The
person
> >behind me in line had paid up the bill for me.  That was a $600 camera,
and
> >to this day I don't know who my benefactor was.  Do you think I felt
> >offended?   I felt grateful.
> >
> >You can tell Case to decline money, as I do now, but older people come
from
> >a time where if people had anything to share, they shared it with those
who
> >were less fortunate.  People are funny, thoough.  I'm not sure what the
> >woman would've done had he declined the dollar graciously.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of
> >Linda Walker
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:52 PM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: New to list - intensive suit therapy - hand surgery?
> >
> >----<snip>----
> >
> >          Talk about offensive  - a woman on the street saw Case
> >walking and gave him a dollar asking what happened to him. He just
> >looks at her and says I have cp and I was born this way. He is too
> >young to be offended by that but I was.