tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038550519663433266.post2483190063151804753..comments2023-10-29T16:40:47.398+05:30Comments on noises off: That repressive thing called family nameshantahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06816568879102192307noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038550519663433266.post-57741212323537745522009-04-20T15:03:00.000+05:302009-04-20T15:03:00.000+05:30Hi Shraddha, you're right. In this case the father...Hi Shraddha, you're right. In this case the father is very highly educated. The mother is not.shantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06816568879102192307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038550519663433266.post-24883326131817724642009-04-15T04:54:00.000+05:302009-04-15T04:54:00.000+05:30Poor mother... she must have felt so ashamed of he...Poor mother... she must have felt so ashamed of her daughter, who does not understand her own brother. <br /><br />I wonder why does it become so difficult for people to love their own people without any conditions. Families like these need to visit a psychologist. The boy is really fortunate to have such a balanced mother.<br /><br />Secondly, education does not necessarily brings wisdom in a person. It has to be earned by oneself. It's just by probability law, an educated person has more chance to be wise earlier than an uneducated one. But that's certainly not a fact, it's just a possibility. I am not at all surprised a doctor behaving so shamelessly. One can always find such ill-mentality in any society.श्रद्धाhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02441833496734325738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038550519663433266.post-86263085319690963742009-04-06T11:09:00.000+05:302009-04-06T11:09:00.000+05:30Hi dubiousmove. This is not about political correc...Hi dubiousmove. This is not about political correctness at all. It's about loving and accepting your child for what he is. You do it by first informing yourself fully about the condition he suffers from. You know then that it is nobody's fault, just a quirk of nature. So there's no need to feel ashamed. Some families go one step further. They join a support group which helps them deal with their emotional trauma and society's insensitivity. This particular family hasn't rid itself of shame. Their strategy has been to put the boy away in an institution and forget that he exists. So the mother has had to fight society as well as her husband and his family single-handed. It's really tough on her.shantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06816568879102192307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038550519663433266.post-69909502058583231512009-04-05T20:09:00.000+05:302009-04-05T20:09:00.000+05:30Came here by chance following links on a Sunday ev...Came here by chance following links on a Sunday evening.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes one can be too politically correct. You are aware yourself that there is a perceived bias against mental illness. The family has gone through a struggle. Just as it it is not the boy's fault, it isn't theirs either. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps they wish to avoid the problem of intrusive strangers asking them what it means to have a "deranged" boy or such. (This is what a TV anchor said in a program about autistic kids.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038550519663433266.post-65468120692352592032009-03-11T16:17:00.000+05:302009-03-11T16:17:00.000+05:30Sad when it's just one person's story; tragic when...Sad when it's just one person's story; tragic when it's the story of millions of us. Give us cowardice any time against perceived dishonour to the family name.shantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06816568879102192307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8038550519663433266.post-24645748934941570982009-03-11T12:46:00.000+05:302009-03-11T12:46:00.000+05:30That's just a very heartbreaking story - and one t...That's just a very heartbreaking story - and one that makes me feel very angry. Why is it that people are never proud of courage and honesty and want to live slavishly in fear all the time. It has so much to do with class too - because when I lived with working class people, the thing they'd always say was - vo mereko khilata hai kya? Some things do come from being too well fed maybe. (so i better watch it - or start eating less!)parotechnicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11533598285111795343noreply@blogger.com