This is from 2009, but I wanted to re-post it because today is "Spread the word to end the word" day. Every time I hear somebody refer to Skyler as "retard" I die a little more inside. Our-kids is a group of over 1000 people who all are people who are in one way or another in the special needs community. Most of us are parents, but there are teachers, doctors, therapists, siblings, and some are the person with the diagnosis. It is a worldwide community, but most are from the United States. We benefit from having an international membership, because it can be quite interesting to hear about viewpoints or medical procedures that are going on in other countries. Over the years, I have had faceless names become close friends, engaged in discussions about body functions you wouldn’t mention to your doctor, and gained a valuable sounding board for advice and ideas. I have grown to care about a lot of these people, and their lives as much as some of my own friend
Oh my god! That was freaking awesome!
ReplyDeleteyeah, what Kirby said.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap!
I think you have to be fearless and not afraid of death to pull this off.
I would have fallen right out of the gate.
Kirby and Teri: I don't think I could have pulled it off on my old Schwinn Stingray.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it was a badass girl doing the filming.
ReplyDeleteI thought it might have been you Kristi, until I heard them speaking in a foreign language!
ReplyDeleteWhat type of bike were they on? Was it a combination of a motorized and pedal bike? At first I thought they were riding bicycles, but then it looked the the bike had a motor. Either way that was incredible!
ReplyDeleteChher: I think they were BMX bikes like they use on X-games.
ReplyDeleteIt cost me one left wrist to say "more than one broken wrist," and I still can't do it. The bikes are free-ride or downhill mountain bikes with lots of suspension travel. Do you have a link? I need to send it to some kayak buddies in response to this.
ReplyDeletescrew all that nonsense!!! i wasn't born with the same genes as those people!!
ReplyDeleteOK, I feel withered in the loins now.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet you $20 bucks those dudes were pretending they were riding speeders across the Forest Moon of Endor while doing that.
Who in the hell made the BRIDGES and RAMPS out of bamboo, I wanna know?