OT/Retirement from a child's view

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Happy Retardment

 

 

Even if you're not a grandparent you will enjoy this.

<>A teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their spring vacation.

 

 

One child wrote the following:

We always spend our vacation with Grandma and Grandpa. They used to live

here in a big, brick house, but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Florida

and now they live in a place with a lot of other retarded people.

 

 

 

They live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look like grass. They

ride around on big tricycles and wear name tags because they don't know who

they are anymore.

<>They go to a building called a wrecked center, but they must have got it

 

 

<> fixed because it is all right now. They play games and do

exercises there,

 

but they don't do them very well.

 

<>There is a swimming pool too, but they all jump up and down in it with

their hats on. I guess they don't know how to swim.

 

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At their gate there is a dollhouse with a little old man sitting in it. He

 

watches all day so nobody can escape. Sometimes they sneak out. Then they go

cruising in their golf carts.

 

 

 

My grandma used to bake cookies and stuff, but I guess she forgot how.

<>Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And they eat the same thing every

night: Early Birds.

 

 

<> <>Some of the people can't get past the man in the dollhouse to

go out, so

the ones who get out bring food back to the wrecked center and call it pot

 

luck.

 

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My Grandma says Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardment and says

I should work hard so I can be retarded one day, too.

When I earn my retardment I want to be the man in the dollhouse. Then I will

let people out so they can visit their grandchildren