[humanser] volunteers

[Ericka Short]

No wonder you went into counseling.  You  wanted to help families to not 
repeat the weirdness you have to put up with.  Your family is so foreign to 
me.  There's about four of us between the two sides that  are in some way 
disabled.  My cousin is ADHD and some other minor issues because he was the 
child of parents with some real issues.  My uncle was an alcoholic and did 
drugs.  My Aunt is visually impaired and Schizophrenic.  A second cousin is 
cognitively challenged. The other two are severely leaning disabled. None of 
us have been "hidden" from family at all.  We are welcome anywhere and we 
look out for each other.  When I married, I began to understand the drama 
though.  Depression, Bipolar, Autism, learning delays/speech problems, 
social anxiety, bad relationships and difficulty keeping a job--it's all 
there somewhere in the history.  Still, I love 'em all!  My mom's family was 
more like yours without the disability issues when she was growing up.  I 
can say  my life was no fairytale as many think because my parents are still 
married to each other and the relatives talk to each other more than once a 
year.

Ericka Short
262-697-0510

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me". Philippians 4:13

"No hand is too small or too big to do good in this world." EJ. Short