Does anyone have any knowledge of Empower and Framing Your T

How to be empowered, well speaking from experiance empowerment starts at an earily age with the child and the family unit. As an Adult with L.D. I thank God every day for grow up in a family that understood that I learned differently and help at home deal with the differences that it took to get me through. This ment hours of support with home work and such BUT I was not able to sit and feel sorry for myself or use my differences as an excuse (the word can’t was not accepted) . Yes I needed support but as it was told to me many times everyone has something that gives them a difficulty no one is perfect. It would not be tolerated that I would expect that the world owed me anything. In a loving manner my family treated me just as anyone else; and in fact maybe a little harded as they pushed me to over come my difficulties understanding that I would have the ability to figure it out for myself and having an open communication line with them to check in when things went wrong. Because I was allowed to learn this at an early age when I became an Adult I had learned these coping skills as a child and when it came decisions I had learned how to deal with and cope with my L.D. and how it might effect my life. It is my understanding that dicussion with many Adults who have L.D. that when left to our own devices we can usually figure it out. AFTER ALL WE ARE THE DISABILITY THAT IS AVERAGE TO ABOVE AVERAGE INTELLEGENCE . So empowerment requirers that parents must be perpared to understand that metaforically speaking a child with a L.D. will have knees that will have more scabs on them because we fall down more often until we get it. It requires a strong parent to understand in order for the child to grow and develop sometimes they have to watch the child fall in order to learn but all the time letting the child know that they will be there after to help sort out what went wrong. The greatest gift that a parent can give a child is self confidence and even if it seems the cards are stacked against them allow them at an earily age to learn how to deal with the little issues so as adults the person knows how to rock with the punches that life has to throw them. Also, so the child is aware their L.D. means that the basics of their dreams maybe a little harder to achieve, but when they realistically get there the fruit of their victory will be sweeter. A term that always was applied to me was A LATE BLOOMER and anything that takes a long time to bloom is usually is a greater gift (I was my mother’s orchard ). I needed to understand what it was that I wanted to be when I grew up for my self .That means I had alot of crappy jobs but I had learned to deal the frustrations as a child the only thing that would stop me would be my self . Yes there are times that I get down on myself but I have learned to find the support of others, many with L.D. to help build the support that I may need to get through the rough patchs.
One of my greatest frustrations as person with L.D. is seeing the trend of the education system and some people to make us SPECIAL NEEDS PERSONS ,yes we may need accomodiations but because of the classifications thrust upon us the label is far worse , so why not tech the stratigies to over come the powers that be and in a postive manner let the child know that when they can conqure their difficulties they will become more powerful (that to me was motatvation ).The fact that I walked to the beat of a different drum ment that I was unique and those that couldn’t deal with that were are most likely afraid of me because they couldn’t understand I have talents that they don’t. After all I had to learn how to live in their world and am funtioning (very nicely thank you ) but they can’t understand mine therfore I am able to do something they can’t so narrow mind see this as a threat. In todays with today technology this even makes it easier for us to gain the upper hand and this must be passed on along to those who need how to gain empowerment. AS WELL THOSE WHO SUPPORT THOSE WITH L.D. MUST NOT CODDLE US. AS THIS IS NOT EMPOWERMENT BUT WE MUST SHOW AND GIVE OWNERSHIP TO THE INFORMATION THAT WE GIVE TO THOSE WITH L.D. AND NOT NECESSARLY DO FOR THE PERSON LET US DO FOR OUR SELVES