Lynn K. Russell
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443 appearances
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first heard Dec 2020
last heard Dec 2020
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The other thing is that they will select themselves, their intelligence, their race, their looks, their every single tiny little thing about themselves
if it's significant to um to the to accomplishing the task so if they come here being slow for example mentally slow or something like that then yeah um that's part of it by the way i do want to talk about uh about that about being a little bit slow um when i was a child i was assessed as um
I was assessed as, well, sorry, they said the word retarded in those days, but I don't find it as offensive, but I know a lot of people do.
Anyway, so that describes what I, and I was in a special class for slow learners for about three years.
It was called the opportunity class.
The point of that was, the really big point is that
In that experience, I didn't find out until I was 32 that I wasn't mentally slow.
And so the point is that during that time,
Everybody else was making my decisions for me because people who are slow don't make decisions properly, right?
You don't expect them to make it.
And so other people were making my decisions for me.
And when I wound up married in a bad marriage and I left the marriage, I didn't know how to make decisions.
I had no idea.
I was terrified, absolutely terrified.
But I went ahead with it and we managed fine.
But the point is that I found out in my, because I went back to school and became a family counselor, but I found out that freedom
and responsibility are the exact same thing.
There is no difference between them.
And so when people were making my decisions for me, I was not learning from the consequences of my actions.
And that is really very, very important because people keep, I keep hearing things saying it was meant to be.
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