cas@mtdcb.att.com (Clifford A Stevens, Jr) (09/04/90)
Index Number: 10052 OK, I've discovered a problem. It's my voice. Not what I say, but how I say it! I sound like a retard! And just imagine trying to keep a job, and trying to find a new one when everyone thinks your mentally deficient! It doesn't matter what kind of exhibets you have, you could have coauthored w Hamming, but noone would even *THINK* of reading your exhibets, or calling your references! In my case it's worse. Before, I was mentally deficient, but my brain retrained parts of itself, so my nueropsych has determined I'm back to normal! But, due to my voice, I'll never get the chance to prove it! I imagine it's a problem also overcome by HI folks, but I don't know how! Maybe they never knew what it was like to sound like an uninjured person, and are so glad to be saying anything! I can read the comments now! "At least your talking! And walking!" and "You're imagining the situation!", but even though I know it could be worse, I don't know if that's worse or not. Because maybe if I was worse off, I wouldn't have even tried coming back! ------------ Militant Survivor! Cliff Stevens MT1E228 att!cbnewsj!ncas (908)671-7292