But we do have good people like this here too.

We forget that wayyy too often these days. Cheerio.

inside public places. We have been subjected to harassment over store PA systems (twice by 2 different Family Dollar stores). Had cops called, been screamed at, as well as harassed by patrons too many times to count. We carry a copy of the law with us and it helps sometimes, but not all. My daughter hates to go in public for this reason.

This story is wonderful and chokes me up! Thank you!

Here's hoping things improve for her, you and your family.

but I know I can't. The thing that pops in my mind is the people who tell her to leave are Trump supporters, (the ones who laugh when trump makes fun of that reporter) They are just so ignorant.

Here is a hug for you and her.

so sorry that has happened.

for a change. I am sure there are many instances like this, but the negative stories always drown out the good ones. My heart goes out to the father, too. In a perfect world, he would not need to ask this question. I would settle for a "near" perfect world.

she makes noises and sometimes screams and hits herself. Doctors say it is because she cannot say what she wants to. In several states we have not been able to walk down the street with her. Some people have shaken their fingers at me and claimed I made her that way. Now we live in the Seattle area and it is completely different. I can tell you tons of stories about how even small kids have been nice and caring about my daughter. I loved the kids who were friends to my sons and treated her just like she were one of them. The difference? they told the kids the truth about birth defects and mental retardation. I heard that way back when, the schools had a class in such things. Made all the difference. Even now, almost 40 years later, the result is still seen when my husband takes her for a walk.

Handicapped children, including the mentally disabled, were included in the public school system to the greatest degree possible. They may have had their own section of the school for the most part, but when they were physically or emotionally capable of participating in more mainstream classes - mainly in the art classes and gym - they were integrated into student body and school system taught all students from early on that everyone had abilities to contribute and not to be afraid of differences in the abilities of fellow students - and not to bully.
Though the "not to bully" never really took, the "don't be afraid of differences" tended to.
Though I didn't make many friends in school, I had several deaf acquaintances, one friend in a wheelchair with frightfully debilitating arthritis and probably Parkinson's (she died young - around 25), one with severe epilepsy, and there were several other adolescents with Downs syndrome that took several of the same elective classes I took in Jr. High School and High School.

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One guy was thrilled when she played cars with him and my son. Another little girl was told there were a lot of kids like my daughter. Finally one day she asked where were they and I told her 'at home with their mommies and daddies' and she smiled really big and said "oh, good". Love all those kids to this day.

I guess that pub owner didn't see IQ45's treatment of just such a person - a writer for the New York Times.

Raise one to Shellield!

THAT could be a movement that could catch on!

I continue to wonder how the f*&k they square that circle.

Class act ... from the pub's facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/pg/BarrelChapeltown/posts

le sigh. still good ppl on the planet earth.

and common decency, can be found even without legislation.

Good for that Sheffield pub owner.

makes loud noises and waves arms constantly. No comment on his "disabilities".

There will be millions of people in pubs all over the world making loud noises much of which will consist of off-key slurred renditions of "It's Coming Home," jumping up and down with no physical control whatsoever, and spilling food and drink all over oneself and others. Not that I speak from experience or have video evidence from the Quarter-Final game mind.

towards disability and other matters are sometimes much more hurtful than the condition or illness. But not with many people as the terrific pub owner shows.

Cheers!

You take care of the people who come into your business, all of them.

In this day and age when you are most likely to hear about some blithering idiot who can not hold their liquor spouting off their opinion on current events and such, I welcome a breath of fresh air here.

This woman shows understanding, care, compassion to a complete stranger. It is high time that OUR LEADERSHIP IN THIS COUNTRY exhibit those qualities.