At 23:40 2/25/97 -0500, you wrote:
>From the desk of Ivan Suzman, gay, young-onset PWP,
Dear Arla and listmembers,
<SNIP>
Only, in my case, the battle began at age 37, and I am
a minority-group member.
I try to be upbeat and positive, but when I see thinking which
threatens to disrupt our UNITY as PWP's and CG's united in a common
struggle, a response is needed.
<SNIP>
IVAN:
I think your last post was in error.
With, perhaps only a couple of concessions, all the posts
I read from members of this list who were commenting on
your repeated announcements of sexual preferences were not
'hitting' on you. They were expressing a fact of life in
todays society. Moreover, I believe they were saying that the
efforts to find a cure for PD is the goal for the majority of
of the list members. They do not want nor can many of us afford
to waste our energies on other agenda until PD is only a bad
memory.
When I read many of your posts, I feel sorry for you. You
are so insecure in your life that many of your messages just
seem to cry out as if a demon possessed you.....my interpretation
of your messages.
In the above snippet you say you are in the minority. My wife is
aslo in the minority......being female. She and all the other PWP
are in the minority. Jeannette was diagnosed at the age of 38, not
much different than you. She has put up with the Devil PD for 20
years, twice as long as you. She is not the only one on this list
with these terrible credentials.
I haven't seen any postings indicating that anyone is trying to
disrupt the UNITY of the efforts to find a cure for PD nor to
defeat our COMMON struggle with PD. Perhaps I'm blind but I
think you should begin writing your posts as a PWP and not a
gay PWP. As Barbara Mallut said, " I dont' give a rat's ass
whether you're gay or not.". Couldn't have said it better myself.
Sorry I can't be more positive about your messages....Jack
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E. Jack Savely [log in to unmask] Topeka, Kansas
CG - Jeannette 58 - 20 Starliter on Chat
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