I work with a few and wonder how many others work with these people, are you nice to them? I have no problems with people that are mentally challenged, but I wonder how others deal with them. I think they are nice people.
2006-08-31 10:14:55 · 28 answers · asked by spiritcavegrl 7 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Yes, my friend and I worked with mentally challenged adults in a local home. There are various businesses here offering to hire and help them, the biggest one being McDonald's. I think this is awesome to help them with their issue and get them more in society and the real word. It also helps other people know that mentally challenged people are real people to and they can do the same as we can.
2006-08-31 10:18:48 · answer #1 · answered by pink_is_glam 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I worked with an autistic child for 4yrs (and still do occasionally on the weekends). They are very nice. It really takes a kind heart and a patient person to appreciate and work well with those that are mentally challenged. What goes around comes around and if you are patient and kind, it will come back to you. I've heard of occasions were people aren't so nice though, because it really takes patience after a while to work with them. I guess they are just doing it for the wrong reasons, and in turn the negative ways that they act towards them will come back to them. Continue to do good and just know that if it were you or someone if your family, you'd want others to treat them with care and compassion.
2006-08-31 10:21:29 · answer #2 · answered by new mom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and I also have worked with a few. I have never met a mentally challenged person who was not nice. It seems to me that realizing they have a problem, they try harder to get along with people. It think we can learn from these folks. If we worked at being nice to everyone, this world would be a better place. And as for someone treating them with disrespect or taking advantage of them, I refer to the Bible Scripture, where Jesus said"If ye have done it unto the least of these my breathern, ye have done it unto me".
2006-08-31 10:22:29 · answer #3 · answered by loufedalis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are nice people who were dealt a short hand in life. I feel bad that some of them have to suffer - escpecially from the ridicule that insensitive people give them - that just is the cruelest thing anyone can do. But a lot of them are so smart and bright & you don't feel bad for them - you see how hard they work in life just to do some simple things that we take for granted. They often have special abilites or talents - autistic children for example. I feel bad even referring to these people as "them" - as if they are all the same- but my point is that they are not - they are individuals just like we are - each with their own mind, dreams, and personalities.
It must be so hard to live with a mind that is different - where the signals get confused and mixed up. I know it is very hard work sometimes though - working with this population but it is also very rewarding as well - you go home feeling good about who you are - like you made a difference in someones' life.
2006-08-31 10:19:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Assuming that 'mentally challenged' immediately ends up in a low IQ (which isn't constantly the case!): 0 -seventy 5 IQ continues to be a extensive variety: as an occasion: A 2 twelve months old toddler probable would not think of it is not so good as say a 5 twelve months old, yet a 10 twelve months old could desire to comprehend it is not so good as a 13 twelve months old, yet then an 88 twelve months old might nto see themselves as not so good as a ninety one twelve months old. an age variety of three years, relies upon on who you prepare it to. Pehaps this is the comparable with your question: I could think of it would additionally rely on who they stay with, how they're taught etc. - in the event that they're an purely toddler who is going to a 'specific desires' college, the place each and every person is the comparable, then they could not be responsive to. yet while they have brothers and sisters and spend area of thier time in 'mainstream' college then consistent with danger they do be responsive to.
2016-10-01 03:39:58 · answer #5 · answered by riedel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was going to be a wise guy and say; “other than most of the people here”!
Yes, I think most people know a mentally challenged person. They do seem nice, and sometimes happier than we so called normal people!
2006-08-31 10:18:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some of the people in my office (mostly women) act as if their mentally and/or socially challenged. As fare as being around "disabled" people, I don't like it. They make me uncomfortable.
2006-08-31 10:18:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was this girl in HS who was mentally challenged...she would remember all birthdays and she was also very intelligent. But nonetheless, she would sit and stare at walls all the time. She was so damn cool.
2006-08-31 10:36:08 · answer #8 · answered by Z. 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People in the work place who are intellectually disabled usually know they are "different". All they want is to be treated the same as everyone else.
2006-08-31 10:18:39 · answer #9 · answered by Chemclueless 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, one of my Godmothers has six children, three boys and three girls. For some reason, the three boys are slow. Yes, I'm nice to all of them and we have "normal" conversations. They are all adults now. They are definitely nice people.
2006-08-31 10:40:52 · answer #10 · answered by Spiritoso 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋