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Feb. 4th, 2004 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xp_tarotI do not understand why everyone wants to learn to use swords and knives, only that I do understand I think. I do not understand why I should learn to, though.
I am not a fighter, and even if I learn to keep myself safe, I do not want to learn to hurt others.
I do want to learn to change things. How people think, not like a telepath, but perceptions. I want to learn how to get people to stop using 'mutants' and start using 'gifted' or something else that people do not think badly of.
We have one school for gifted children here, but how many other people cannot go here, because of money, or location? Many governments pay for blind or deaf children to have schools and special training, why not us?
If someone who is in a car accident loses their sight, they get to learn braille and taught how to survive, and there are charities that help. Why is someone who is born without eyes, but with sonar like a bat not taught the same things? Why are they not eligible for the same charities?
That is what I want to change. I don't want to fight, or kill anyone who doesn't like mutants, and I only want to be safe here long enough to graduate and go to university.
If being safe here means I have to learn to shoot a gun, then no. It is not worth it. There is a line I will not cross, even if I am tempted to. I do not kill, I do not maim, and I do not want to learn how, lest I be tempted to.
I can see the future in my dreams. Some of you know this, because I have talked about it. I think Dr. MacTaggart told my teachers, to explain why I was falling asleep in Algebra last semester. I think some of you know because I saw you, and told you. I do not know how accurate those dreams are, I think that a lot of them are wrong, because I see different things. Some dreams, the world hates mutants and we are in jails or hiding. Some dreams, we are working for equality and acceptance and living as normal of lives as we can.
Both cannot be true, yes?
I write down every dream. Some of them I draw from as well. Doctor MacTaggart has copies, I have a binder. I think it is better to be open about it than hide it, so if anyone wants to see, my copies are open for reading.
Doug - can we have a ... I think the term is follow-up? - can we talk about the expiriment we did last week?
I am not a fighter, and even if I learn to keep myself safe, I do not want to learn to hurt others.
I do want to learn to change things. How people think, not like a telepath, but perceptions. I want to learn how to get people to stop using 'mutants' and start using 'gifted' or something else that people do not think badly of.
We have one school for gifted children here, but how many other people cannot go here, because of money, or location? Many governments pay for blind or deaf children to have schools and special training, why not us?
If someone who is in a car accident loses their sight, they get to learn braille and taught how to survive, and there are charities that help. Why is someone who is born without eyes, but with sonar like a bat not taught the same things? Why are they not eligible for the same charities?
That is what I want to change. I don't want to fight, or kill anyone who doesn't like mutants, and I only want to be safe here long enough to graduate and go to university.
If being safe here means I have to learn to shoot a gun, then no. It is not worth it. There is a line I will not cross, even if I am tempted to. I do not kill, I do not maim, and I do not want to learn how, lest I be tempted to.
I can see the future in my dreams. Some of you know this, because I have talked about it. I think Dr. MacTaggart told my teachers, to explain why I was falling asleep in Algebra last semester. I think some of you know because I saw you, and told you. I do not know how accurate those dreams are, I think that a lot of them are wrong, because I see different things. Some dreams, the world hates mutants and we are in jails or hiding. Some dreams, we are working for equality and acceptance and living as normal of lives as we can.
Both cannot be true, yes?
I write down every dream. Some of them I draw from as well. Doctor MacTaggart has copies, I have a binder. I think it is better to be open about it than hide it, so if anyone wants to see, my copies are open for reading.
Doug - can we have a ... I think the term is follow-up? - can we talk about the expiriment we did last week?
