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Question: Need help figuring out the name of this book of which the title I can't remember? Sigh it bugs me that I can't because it's named either after the main character or the lab rat that he named. Of what I can remember the main character (who's a male) was born developmentally challenged.. he also had some kind of inappropriate habit that kind of got him in trouble a few times (had a mob hunting him down at one point).. had a sister (can't remember if she was older or younger) that I -think- was ashamed of her brother.. and the mom hit him if he didn't read a line properly (or something). then later he was taken to some specialist who suggested that he was part of some experiment which was supposed to make him more intelligent. at points he was tested on how fast he could figure out the solution to a maze and other things, and was competing with the lab rat who at the start beat him frequently. Eventually the experiment on him starts to work and he got smarter and soon was beating the rat at the tests. Then at one point he lived in an apartment building and met a neighbour from across his room who was like.. an artist.. and was occasionally found naked. they had some sort of relationship for a while.. then later again he was tired of being 'test specimen' and ran out of some meeting where like the scientists were explaining about their experiment on him and stuff. In the process he took the rat with him (whom he gave a name of which I can't remember) and hid out in the bathroom (or something). Then slowly he starts to lose himself to his disability because he wasn't being treated anymore. In the end he's back to square one and the rat had eventually died. Anyhow that's the best I can do. if i tried adding more details it'd most likely be false memory by that point.. Forgot that there was also being an experiment on the rat. can't remember if it's the same as the main character's or different OH! no wonder I couldn't remember it.. xD i only remembered there being a name in it which didn't help since I didn't even remember the rat's name..

Answer: omg thats flowers for algernon. thats such a good book! i read that last year and really enjoyed it.

Question: My 5 year old son has no respect for authority. Help?!?!? I have two sons. My oldest is 5. I take him to a developmental pediatrician, a psycholigist, and an occupational therapist. When he was 3 he was given a psych test to see if he qualified for a gifted school in my area and his IQ was 131. His last IQ test he got a 155. He taught himself to read at 3 and now reads at a 5th grade level according to testing. Every specialist has ruled out Autism, PDD, Autism Spectrum disorder, and a few are on the fence with ADHD. His father and grandfather have ADD. I am an at-home mom. When he was 3, my son escaped his preschool so I withdrew him due to safety concerns. When he was 4, he attended a preschool a few days a week and within a month, he was lashing out at teachers, even kicking a few. When he started Kindergarten this Fall, he would flat out refuse to do the work in class and he spent most of his day in the principal's office. The school then arranged to put him on a 508 plan, which would allow him to go to Special Ed part of the day. I also need to mention that my son has a lot of anxiety regarding very specific things. Trains and noises associated with trains, the "happy birthday song", when someone says "cheese" as a photo is being taken. He goes into intense rages at hearing these things. He is a very outgoing, social boy. He has no respect for adults, teachers, or us a lot of the time. For discipline, we do time outs, removing things like toys, priveliages. At the moment, I am homeschooling him because I thought him being in special ed all day was not going to grow him as an individual. With most kids I have seen, once they get into a routine and learn what is expected of them, especially at school, they eventually comply. With my son, it gets worse, no matter what the environment. I am exhausted and feel as though I have no where to turn. No one knows what is going on with him. Nothing I've tried works. More background: His father and I have been married 8 years and live together happily. We do a lot as a family. Neither of us drink or smoke and we are somewhat religious, although we don't go to church. My huaband and I are both intelligent and the most successful method we've tried is "parenting with love and logic". My son has also had progress charts, sticker charts, "mom bucks" to earn for good behavior and to be taken away for poor choices. We have started him in Tae Kwondo to build skills in self-discipline and respect, which he likes. I so look forward to any tips or advice you can offer. I feel as though I've exhausted my options. Thank you!

Answer: Since you have tried everything else, how about a nice old fashioned SPANKING. Parents have been using "spankings" for thousands of years and it does work. Anyway, what can you lose? Take care.

Question: Do you think this ape has rights, and have they been violated? In this posting found on Yahoo News, it describes a chimp in a zoo that demonstrated a very high level of advance-planning. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090310/twl-rock-chucking-chimp-proves-apes-plan-3fd0ae9.html Scientists/ specialists/ anthropologist (etc) believe the way this chimp planned in advance to throw stones at the humans who were staring at him in his cage (he built a stash of "ammunition") demonstrates a very high level of awareness and advance planning. This alpha-male got on fine with the other chimps, but seemed hell-bent on throwing stones at the humans visiting the zoo. Despite the intelligence of his behaviour, they decided that they didn't like the "aggressive" planning that this, apparently, very intelligent-being displayed when locked in a cage and stared at by his captors, and think that castration may prove to be the answer. So: Castrating a chimp (remember this is an alpha-male chimp, who probably values his nuts) - in captivity - that does not attack the other chimps in captivity, and has inflicted only minor injuries, and only on the species that holds him captive, whilst demonstrating at the same time that he is much closer intellectually to that captor-species than previously thought... Am I the only liberal animal-rights-wuss that thinks this is more than a little ethically troubling? Sounds an awful lot like this chimp is being punished with mutilation, for using his brains against his captors rather than his own kind. Doesn't it sound like the chimp has the right idea? What do you think?

Answer: I do not know about animal rights but I have heard that chimps regard being looked in the eye as aggressive an therefore he is to an extent defending himself. He is I think the boss man of the group and to do this to him which will lower his status is cruel and unfair. He is an animal and we can not expect him to understand humans. It is for us with our superior intelligence to try and understand him. For crying out loud sake the animal is in a cage or compound and they are supposed to be making it as far as is possible as close to his natural habitat as they can.

Question: Do you think this ape has rights, and have they been violated? [This is a duplicate posting that I'm more than prepared to lose points for re-asking to get as many different perspectives as possible.] In this posting found on Yahoo News, it describes a chimp in a zoo that demonstrated a very high level of advance-planning. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090310/twl-rock-chucking-chimp-proves-apes-plan-3fd0ae9.html Scientists/ specialists/ anthropologist (etc) believe the way this chimp planned in advance to throw stones at the humans who were staring at him in his cage (he built a stash of "ammunition") demonstrates a very high level of awareness and advance planning. This alpha-male got on fine with the other chimps, but seemed hell-bent on throwing stones at the humans visiting the zoo. Despite the intelligence of his behaviour, they decided that they didn't like the "aggressive" planning that this, apparently, very intelligent-being displayed when locked in a cage and stared at by his captors, and think that castration may prove to be the answer. So: Castrating a chimp (remember this is an alpha-male chimp, who probably values his nuts) - in captivity - that does not attack the other chimps in captivity, and has inflicted only minor injuries, and only on the species that holds him captive, whilst demonstrating at the same time that he is much closer intellectually to that captor-species than previously thought... Am I the only liberal animal-rights-wuss that thinks this is more than a little ethically troubling? Sounds an awful lot like this chimp is being punished with mutilation, for using his brains against his captors rather than his own kind. Doesn't it sound like the chimp has the right idea? What do you think? Big Kahuna. It's not about "how well I can take a joke!" I don't think this idea is a joke, but even if I did, and was on the receiving end, should I condone castrating the animal for humourously assaulting it's captors?

Answer: Hey. The chimp seems to have impressed you.