Cori Coleman is currently enticing readers with short stories and long tales of fantasy, love, and perseverance. Mentallly Challenged: why name call? A title to make you think; he thought to himself - as he begins his journey as a writer, became more than a catch phrase but what Coleman intends to soon make a monument in society. With an older brother diagnosed with a learning disability, at age 16 Coleman began some extensive research into what challenges fell before his older brother in life. After observing children from elementary schools, middle schools, and high school, it became evident the challenges of those with disabilities can be reading, writing, listening, memory, and various other obstacles. Many of the individuals with disabilities were successful at learning how to overcome reading and writing challenges, but there was however one challenge each individual failed to overcome every day, night, and forever - the disability itself. Today we label certain individuals with mental disabilities as challenged, but how incontrovertibly unfair and beyond untrue. From youth to adults, there is no challenge here, they will not recover or become reborn, or endure some living transformation involving the spirit ideas of reincarnation. When you have autism that is what you have, autism and that will not change. As for us, what I hear many of us describe ourselves as "Normal folk" it is apparent, we do have challenges, mental challenges and we also have possible real life solutions leading us to the victory over these challenge. Our lives are far more complex than any rare or common disability. What we endure on a daily basis is the very evidence of the manifestation of our challenges psychologically. The labels we press upon those who have to live with certain behaviors indefinitely must be reassigned. For our intelligence has been praised often to high, and our system of living is and has been bullied into a pa

Mentally Challenged

Why Name Call?By Cori Coleman

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Copyright © 2010 Cori Coleman
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ISBN: 978-1-4520-0673-4

Contents

Introduction.................................viiThinking.....................................1Choices......................................5Talent is Talent.............................11Poem 1.......................................14Part time....................................15Factors to consider..........................21The Parent...................................27Misunderstood................................35The Outside..................................41Location.....................................45Lyrical Sessions 1...........................50Patience.....................................51Help.........................................57Offer up.....................................61Creating You.................................65Intentionally positioned.....................69Lyrical Session 2............................74What are we doing today?.....................75Moving a Mind................................81Listening....................................87Realize......................................93Compromising.................................105Lyrical Session 3............................113Attitudes and Judging........................115Download.....................................121Truth is ....................................129

Chapter One

Thinking

When it comes to actually thinking? We can find ourselves doing more reacting than applying processed thoughts.

Situations stack amongst the brains acknowledgement. The daily struggles are mentally factored in our everyday lives. Certain words, events, visual preferences deliver actions to the brain before thought.

When you wake up in the morning you perform actions that are first recognized due to information of not why to perform the action, just the action itself being performed.

Even if the reason is known we do not consider thinking it out instead we just skip through it and straight to the action.

In the morning you brush your teeth if I am correct. Before you made it out of the bed from waking up, all the way to the bathroom, you probably acknowledge the action but not its purpose. Now you are saying "yeah, why not?" seems purposeless right?

WRONG!!!

Consider what process need it be particularity specific you use to brush your teeth. Brush top row, brush bottom row, gums, and then your tongue. Some of you brush your teeth in a motion to clean all your teeth different from others.

Reason I explain the action is so you can take into consideration you do not always brush your teeth as thoroughly as you can possible. Imagine you woke up every morning and you begin thinking about the reason to brush your teeth. I am talking the negatives and positives all surrounding. Just thinking of what affect brushing your teeth can have on you will result in a few below.

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1. You will begin to coincide how bad your teeth can get.

2. Thus, knowing you will make a far better teeth cleaning experience based upon the information contained in the negatives of not brushing effectively.

3. You may actually begin new methods to ensure your teeth are being properly taken care of.

4. Just by thinking (THINKING) alone you have granted yourself the realization if you even know why you should brush your teeth.

Thinking is a responsibility, many of us are very tardy hen it comes to reading thoughts of our own. So much can be taught mentally alone by simply thinking. Thinking can become a action itself un-done probably due to the outcome of its use.

When gathering thoughts we will more than definitely process the positives but also the negatives.

People are people, more than likely who is not going to come to a negative and allow their self to become bothered by it.

Negative thoughts are worry factors, bringing in the mental bad that can stress the soul.

Due to these negatives the thinking; however, the idea of thinking is more choicely avoided.

Respectful upon an individual the choice is theirs. As well uncalled for at the thought we can allow smalls such as bad realization stop us from thinking.

Thinking affects the performance and performance affects outcome and that will affect reality.

As young adults, adults, and even older folk, life has its pull and pushes far greater than imagined.

We are living and breathing through the days and will continue to until death. Regardless the obstacles involved in life or situations, THINK!

Situations range from work, school personal life, even relationships. Our decisions are action decisions and action decisions only get final results. In the world today I highly doubt preparation would hurt you. Before any presentation to your boss at work, even your class instructor in school. You would base your final results on prepared and thought out information.

Thinking is preparation, practice before action. Basic life situations can easily be tackled with a choice of thought revision.

At work, in your own home or public area thinking is a tool for action. Many of the angry atmosphere's we may walk into are going to bring intention and persuasion to act before thinking.

We all have occupations where our boss can intentionally attempt to jump on your case due to the fact they are just bad people. Now you have your situations where people are being hounded by someone in the position of authority. First things first the individual who is feeling a little awkward will then come to a boiling point. This point of anger has been reached by the breaking of tolerance. Once our tolerance is broken we pretty much are loose cannons.

The issue falls into a confrontation and this begins to have us finding ourselves ready to do what "lash out".

Most of us in the time of confrontation we just lash out instead of thinking. For some of us it results in losing our jobs as fast as we lose our temper. Really though, that's is the motive! It happens that way because people of higher authority do not expect anyone below them to think. No, not at all they do not expect you to think. They expect you to provide you services through voice and command.

See the idea of us thinking is only needed when the task has been developed for us that way otherwise the responsibility of thinking is least expected.

Thinking is a key to task completion and stability of operations. No one wants you to think because the moment you do begin thinking is the second you begin learning. Oh at a nine to five slave enforced occupation no one wants you learning. They want you to do what you are told and that's where the operation of labor living can deprive the mind that neglects thinking. The program designed is to keep us focused on certain responsibilities that require us only being told what to do by the person above. Ever been at a job and asked someone of high authority how to take on a task at your occupation which requires the full attention and directions to successfully complete the task and run the task through. They do not want to tell you and are not looking forward to a lower level employee using his brain for a job he is expected to shut up and just do whatever when told.

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Thinking is the part of life we are expected to abandon and leave on the streets of responsibility. Well all in all we abandon responsibility only after you have ditched thinking.

The point where the brain wants to learn is a tool being used for the purpose of finding out what God wants you to do. So many of us walk drifting onto a path that has neither a title nor a position to be followed. That is cause we do not think we just act and move out of the knowledge that keeps us running.

Thinking will be the reason you can and will succeed beyond all obstacles that can be brought your way. Use your brains channel what thoughts come into being constructed actions. Allow yourself to accept the thoughts that come to mind and to keep in touch with your actions. We as a people are not thinking and are remaining in a lost word of do what you are told ask no questions. Many of us are being knowledgeable enough to understand the life they live is organized outside their thinking. A program keeping you entitled to the life others expect you to live instead of the life you can choose to live. Jump out the window of opportunity and fly with your ambitions.

Choices

Following the idea to think can I even make the reference to choice. One keyword I am not even sure many of us are sure we have. It is as if we intend to run through life off instinct and chance.

The gamble is how we are living, with every mistake an unknown area of fracture. It appears we are always finding reasons in life to make decisions with our experience only as a supporting reason after the fact. Often we are taken the times of trials to be the reason we do anything yet the reason is never justified until after the event or incident which your actions which in fact have lacked choice obviously are displayed.

Finding reason is a way we make excuses for not using the choices we have. Trying to explain every action as if it were the key turning point to the conflict or alternating event. Reality makes you believe everything but what you can develop yourself as an opinion. The road to understanding takes a bit of self control and translation.

We need to be able to take away what would normally be defined or described and allow ourselves to see an open door. That open door is our choice, and choice is a door that revolves universally. The idea of choice is actually more likely less a thought in consideration than thinking before we react. That in fact is a choice in the making.

Choice the freedom to decide to make a relevant optimistic decision based off evidence which can prove an either; or as well an neither; nor. The weight placed upon decision can scare a person into just reacting. Think about it when you actually consider outcome or result how often are you that willing to snap and act out of character.

You are not!, you even begin to re-think steps and plan of action just to keep in mind the reality of consequence. With choice there is the consequence. As we all would like to avoid the word in the same sentence referring to ourselves. The consequences of choice are more favorable than we may recognize.

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Choice is the option the alternative before no alternate option. Choice can be created, developed, constructed, planned, re-enforced. The worse choice can bring is the realization that you had a choice and were still negligent to the obvious. Therefore if one can be as careless to accept the obvious outcome one may deserve every consequence a choice can provide.

We toy with the chances of life as if choice has no significant existence in our daily operating lives. The mission we choose to cruise seeking a goal point in our lives and we intend to do such just taking on life as it comes. People say they live for today as you should in a manner of speaking towards the projecting future. Then the argument is wouldn't living for today be taking a chance and chance has no choice.

We need choice it is a blessing that God has gave it to us even knowing what we already do.

Choice is going to keep you on the road you belong on and can and will if used incorrectly keep you on the road that ends in construction work ahead.

Worst of all about choice and us not acknowledging we have one is that some of us become leaders of the blind. Seeking the knowledge of being a person who has no choice typical the action we can find delight in. Choice is the profit of living the life you decide will best fit your life comfortably.

Many of us today are living without a choice and allowing what seems obligated to determine the choices they have. Several of us get up for work or school and decide nothing because we act as if the decision has already been made. Likely the situations in our life prove that choice cannot be controlled, by option no it cannot. No one can control the subjects of choice the possibilities of option.

Living is a pattern that most of us constructed almost perfect with expectation almost well know as the action displays. The issue becomes when the life we live brings us more problems with every choice we are unknowledgeable of making.

Choices are the brought solution by God and the conflict inflicting situations brought by the devil. Although God has your design already mapped and predicted the choice is a blessing he gave to you. He wants to know if you are going to follow through with the likely choices of his provision.

We continue to step out the house with what we have been known for the longest as directed ways of using your attitude, dressing yourself, and eating. Every single little step has its program and direction. As they do we ourselves follow them without an option and without a care to what option we have. The responsibility is only ours to be aware of the living patterns that we accept and allow to bring us the lack of choice we end up believing we have. It is almost as if we have allowed waking up and going to work make the day for us. Let me ask you a question:

What happens on that day you wake up and say I am not going to work? Do you not go? Do you go?

Alternatively cause of the choices we do not believe we have we will already before the answer of the question can even be chosen over. Begin to start the no choice speech, who is going to pay bill? How will bills get paid? How will we keep a roof over our head? Ahhhh blah blah whine whine whine!!!!

No one is asking you to quit your job if you like your job stay there have fun be bossed around. For those though who don't and trust me there is a very enormous amount of your kind. You all complain about your jobs. You all come home or around groups of friends sit down and open up the book to your pity party. (someone get the violins)

Suck it up, there is no one to blame but you! The choice is yours we all have been hiding from choice and seeing everything else around us become greater by the acknowledgment.

The eyes cannot always see choice and will never see choice at sometimes. On the other hand choice is openly visually abroad.

Think and open your minds we are allowing the bills and living space and various other pity concerns keep us without choice and in programmed living. You all go to your jobs some of you get promoted inside the work force some get promoted through transfer to another occupation of higher responsibility. Regardless the reason you all keep your job is because you do it very well noticeably or you do it very terribly unnoticeably.

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The occupation that you choose to suffer from comes back at you ten times harder by the day you go without thinking and becoming aware of choice.

Now don't you find it funny how we can always know what we are suppose to do but when it boils down to doing it anything can distract us from doing it.

Ironic being as though it never works like that with our lives, we never just know we are supposed to go to work and get distracted by something else that interest us do we. Only when we are at a minor focus of interest does the choice to keep focused and continue or ditch the priority and following the interest.

Choice is going to haunt many of us as it already does. Several are reading and many can stop sit back or look up and say something about at least five decisions you have made in your path and find some disgust to them!

"omg why did I do that ..." sound familiar ...

Yes that is you sounding all regretful and just lost about it. Pssh so ... Look you have choices now and whether you believe it or not your choices are going to be more of a burden than a child would. (hence the fact your lack of choices bring children into the world)

The problems are not what we decide they are as they are their solutions are choices. Decisions are crucial and imperative to the time line of life and the rebuilding of character. We will list the clear facts of struggle and dependents that will keep us surrounded by a reality we only construct from slacking between our thinking. Mentally built to learn the mind can never go far from right when a choice is at stake. Mistakes will be made and we know this our actions display our mistakes every day. Examples of our character reactions based off actions display the choices that act as a sphere around our reality. Compatibly the unimaginably of thoughts are the possibility to find the choices useable. The argument will be stated but the realization will be vacant. So walk into the open arms of acknowledgment and recognize the choice is power and tool. Yet a blessing to have one and the will to act on choice is also a blessing in disguise.

Open eyes look past the silver and shoot for the platinum its shine is far brighter and obvious. Little do we understand the choice of platinum over silver, wanting the first thought that comes to brain over a little interest. The more we continue to put ourselves in the position to become without choice the pain and struggle of living is never going to be understandable.

Become the dominant determiner in your life after God's will. Our choices will bring us to so much realization the world around us has us in a place we cannot function on our own.

It begins to unfold as the days become more likely non-negotiable. That is when you have applied so much of your life into what you thought you were suppose to. You then have no longer kept what choices of living possibly possible, possible.

Talent is Talent

The creativity to obtain a task objective and selectively create a method, which not only proves to dominate the core responsibility of the task, but as well marks the specific criteria solutions.

Some of us can fly a plain while others can operate a U.S. military tank. While the skills of the world go publicly known there are various types of crafts that build our developing character. When in the position of spot light the shine can take a mind to a place called "confidence". The confidence you can establish from being in the position to be seen as talent will ensure that you are beginning the right path of determination.

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