I did a similar account for the month of March and 15 people accounted for
85% of all messages on this list.

        I would hope that a "sub-division" does not exist between adults
and parents. We are a community centered around a neuromuscular impairment.
I often wish my mother had had access to a similar list. I don't think she
ever talked to another parent with a CP child.

Bobby


>Deborah dear friend,
>
>With 300 plus list members I can only imagine what a nightmare it would be if
>everyone posted as much as I do.  Ye Gads!  Everyone's computer would blow up!
>
>You are definitely in my heart, you don't have to be a CP adult.  I'm not
>even a CP adult, unless you count Virtual CP (which I brazenly claim).  At
>times I have felt a connection with the parents that I didn't initially
>anticipate.  Although I am an adult with an acquired disability, and you are
>a parent without a disability who had the lovely surprise of having
>disability come into your life through your children, we seem to share the
>experience of being thrown into a different culture, unique unto its own.
>
>I tend to regard CP adults as my mentors at this point (in spite of my
>"grandma status"), although I have a couple of mentors with other
>disabilities.  I have such close ties on this list now though, that the CP
>world feels closer to me than any other "sub group" of disabilities including
>my own.
>
>There are so few people in my situation who's peripheral neuropathy has
>progressed as mine has, that our issues are very different.  I'm at flank
>speed through the ocean of disability rights advocacy.
>
>Sometimes I see posts from parents and read through without replying since I
>don't have children myself.  I'm not always sure what to say and leave
>replies to parents who know more about other parent's issues.  I am
>definitely in the parent's corner, I'm just afraid of saying something
>stupid.  I am reading though.
>
>It seems as though there are two sub communities on this list: Those with CP
>children, and adults with CP. Threads keep things organized and separated,
>but we are certainly together in our goals and aspirations.
>
>Betty
>(I was supposed to have CP; I just got in the wrong line)
>
>
>
>
>In a message dated 06/05/2000 9:08:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>>  I will try better, but for some reason I don't have
>>  any comments on allot of the subjects, maybe because I am a mother with a
>>  child who has CP, rather than having CP myself.  I will try harder to
>>  understand how it feels maybe as my syndromes become full blown I will feel
>>  different.  I appreciate the input from the group though, helps me to
>>  understand the frustration, hope and success that my boys are feeling.
>>  Thanks again to the group.
>>  Deborah mom of 4