I'll answer several asides directed at me. One regarding not seeing Jeannie, I think you'll agree that there's a difference between a passing visit that only lasts a few hours and the daily nurture in a friendship. I stopped myself from explaining that my visit to see Jeannie for a few hours did not really count, because it did count for a great deal, it just doesn't make up for the years I've had to take refuge in Seattle.
As for excluding someone who you think should be excluded from AllDeaf Chat I hardly see why. The thread is very clearly titled: Deaf With Schizophrenia. If you are that hostile to people living with conditions that are no more self-inflicted than deafness is, I think you need to be counseled by progressive reformers. Have you ever looked into the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill?
The Clubhouse program I belong to was established by people who have been victimized as cooperative, coping members of society living with, recovering from, dealing with mental illness.
Now you seem lastly to be very angry that I am not willing to attribute the sick, cruel, devious, unfair, belligerent, powerhouse things that Peter Gabriel did to me, which exploited my trauma, to my own problems.
That is because they did not originate with me.
My mother gave testimony to Sound Mental Health about Peter Gabriel. She wrote, "Gabriel wrote to Jim quite frequently for several years and I wouldn't be surprised if he used some of Jim's words on one of his songs as Jim claims."
Mother received an encomnium signed by the Mayor and City Council of Topeka for her career as an English teacher. I attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts on a scholarship for Poetry. My grandfather Ward was a copy editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a Distinguished Citizen of Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
My father was a Naval Veteran of WW2, Lieutenant in the Pacific, led a Liberian Peace Corps mission and was Emeritus of History at Bethany College after a long and distinguished career at Pitt when he passed away.
I fail to see where my bringing up letters sent to me by Martha Gellhorn and Eugene Sledge, or the evidence I amassed about the origin of AIDS after becoming concerned as a Medical Library Clerk are such a topic of scorn for you.