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Personally, I find that listening to paranoids whose overblown estimations of their own self importantance is rivaled in size only by their giant persecution complexes rave about their fixations to be a bit boring after awhile.
Ok, so then, explain why the X-Files remain popular 
steve Reply to: stevewhite at ce dot mediaone dot net
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Steve, Personally, I find that listening to paranoids whose overblown estimations of their own self importantance is rivaled in size only by their giant persecution complexes rave about their fixations to be a bit boring after awhile. Ok, so then, explain why the X-Files remain popular
I dunno… maybe ’cause Mulder is yummy to look at? And my boyfriend assures me that Scully isn’t exactly hard on the eyes either… See? The truth really IS out there! – Kim. PS What’s REALLY scary is that there are people who think that show is a documentary!
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Shea, – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I have no wish to start any debate on the subject, but I did think that some people might find it interesting that the AAC Conference in D.C this May is featuring the following workshop: H. POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SYMPTOMS IN BIRTH MOTHERS RELINQUISHING UNDER CLOSED RECORDS Lynn N. Giddens, MA, adoptee, founder of Adoption Information Exchange, legislative change activist, North Carolina Now, I personally find the AAC Conference program this year nauseating, with reams of workshops that pathologize adoptees and birthparents, (with titles like "Who Am I", by Primal Wound author Nancy Verrier, and two beauties from Joe Soll, including "YOU LOVE ME? I’M OUT OF HERE!" and "I’M FINE AND I’M CERTAINLY NOT ANGRY!"). We also have "Therapy that works", and keynotes with names like "ORPHANS AND WARRIORS: THE JOURNEY OF THE ADOPTED HEART" and "Adoptees are the "Unknown Soldiers" of our day." The "entertainment" looks even worse.
You mean those workshops AREN’T the entertainment? Personally, I think that the names of those workshops are themselves entertaining. But the PTSD one might actually be interesting.
In the way that listening to paranoids tell you about how the fact that there is no proof that our government is conspiring with alien beings means that it MUST be true can sometimes be interesting. Personally, I find that listening to paranoids whose overblown estimations of their own self importantance is rivaled in size only by their giant persecution complexes rave about their fixations to be a bit boring after awhile. – Kim.
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But the PTSD one might actually be interesting. Shea
It might also be crapola. The person doing the workshop doesn’t appear to be a physician, psychiatrist, or psychologist. She MIGHT be a social worker or some kind of therapist. But I’m betting that it’s the usual "I think we deserve to have this diagnosis, so we’re going to have it!" nonsense we’ve seen here. It also seems to fit the rest of the nonsense you described at the AAC. steve Reply to: stevewhite at ce dot mediaone dot net
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I have no wish to start any debate on the subject, but I did think that some people might find it interesting that the AAC Conference in D.C this May is featuring the following workshop: H. POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SYMPTOMS IN BIRTH MOTHERS RELINQUISHING UNDER CLOSED RECORDS Lynn N. Giddens, MA, adoptee, founder of Adoption Information Exchange, legislative change activist, North Carolina Now, I personally find the AAC Conference program this year nauseating, with reams of workshops that pathologize adoptees and birthparents, (with titles like "Who Am I", by Primal Wound author Nancy Verrier, and two beauties from Joe Soll, including "YOU LOVE ME? I’M OUT OF HERE!" and "I’M FINE AND I’M CERTAINLY NOT ANGRY!"). We also have "Therapy that works", and keynotes with names like "ORPHANS AND WARRIORS: THE JOURNEY OF THE ADOPTED HEART" and "Adoptees are the "Unknown Soldiers" of our day." The "entertainment" looks even worse. But the PTSD one might actually be interesting. Shea
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