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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Tuesday, February 06, 2018 - 10:27 am 
the show made me feel bad. I always have indeterminate feelings about transgender children. I feel that society genderfies children through its "normal" that is not normal at all, I grew up as a child that [played in dresses, my mother loved to have us very girly, I mostly only wear jeans now and am not big on make up. Not transgender, just feel I have to be any special way for society, just comfortable. It was not easy to always play in a dress when you are an active child. especially when my mother went through a hoop skirt phase and put hoops in our short skirts to make they stand out. Very hard to sit in a hoop. lots of underwear shown at inappropriate times. thankfully she got the hint and took them back out after the school contacted her.
Ihad a sister in law who glued a bow on her daughter's head because she did not like people thinking she had a little boy. Who cared, it was an infant. I don't think a child should have one kind of a toy or another, they should be able to be a child, not a girl or boy, just a child. So when a child wants to change genders before puberty it seems like they may have been classified too much.
So having a show where a child wanted to determine body altering surgery challenged that thinking.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, February 07, 2018 - 9:31 pm
Legal, I was sure he would find a pool, too!
Very surprised that wasn't already a major coping mechanism for him.
I have watched I Am Jazz from the beginning. Shaun would learn from Jazz and her friends.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Thursday, February 08, 2018 - 12:17 pm
My son who has ASD is 17, and he has a friend who came out as transgender almost two years ago now. I was pleasantly surprised at how he and all of his friends just took it in stride. No big deal. "Rebecca is Sam now." Okay then. Sam is 18 now, but was 17 when he came out. Still the same sweet little person he always was.
Sadiesmom, I also grew up in the generation where girls were not allowed to wear pants to school. We always had "play clothes" for home, but had to wear dresses to school. It wasn't until I was in high school that the girls were finally allowed to wear pants to school. When I was in elementary school, we used to wear shorts under our dresses so we could play on the monkey bars without anyone seeing our underwear! 
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Saturday, February 10, 2018 - 7:54 pm
I can top that, when I was in college, we were not allowed to wear pants to the dining hall, had to be skirt or dress. so we kept wrinkled old skirts in a locker there and rolled up our pants legs. At dinner, The dinner was served family style and one person was named the hostess, and she would pour our after diner tea. In the mean while our dean was one of the many Carlyn Keenes and she would invite women like Bella abzug and Betty Friedan to speak to us and my gym outfit was a short dress with matching bloomers under it. All that changed shortly after I graduated.
but this is all off topic, sorry.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, March 14, 2018 - 10:13 am
The Good Doctor has been renewed for another season. Yay!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, March 14, 2018 - 3:34 pm
Yay!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, March 14, 2018 - 7:41 pm
Good!
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, March 15, 2018 - 11:58 am
YAY!
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Nanalinda
Member
08-06-2005
| Thursday, March 15, 2018 - 9:25 pm
YAY! I really like this show.
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Spunky
Member
10-07-2001
| Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 7:31 am
Shaun's neighbor, what a jerk! It's those moments of people taking advantage of Shaun that the viewer gets closer to the character and the actor plays that vulnerable role to perfection.
However, I watched The Good Doctor after The Resident and the two hospitals environments are very very different. The Resident very realistic and no sugar coating anything while the Good Doctor tries to stir our emotions. I'll keep watching.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 10:10 am
I yelled Oh No at the tv at the end of last night's show.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 11:19 am
well taking the pizza was a nice touch to drill the point home, heh. But I feel it was over kill.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 3:42 pm
Sean should have called the cops because his TV was stolen. Taken without his permission!!! Cuz payback's a b****. Oh well.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 10:47 pm
I yelled the same thing 😟 about the mentor and president of the hospital.
That actor who is Shaun's neighbor plays a total TOOL really well.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - 5:17 am
Yeah I was hurting for Shawn.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - 5:28 am
Since next week is the last episode for the season I'm guessing Shaun will get his neighbor out of his life. Also, Shaun's mentor really wasn't doing much anymore so I'm not surprised that it looks like he is being writing out of the show.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - 9:15 am
Oh I like the mentor! I love their relationship... it has a dynamic beyond professional because they've known each other for years from when Sean was a child. I'm hoping Sean Saves him and they get super close again and we get to see the budding romance between the mentor and the lady in the dining room.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - 9:25 am
I like your take on it, Mame.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Wednesday, March 21, 2018 - 10:36 pm
I agree Mame....
I am just happy it was a brain tumor and not early dementia
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 22, 2018 - 11:48 am
Hmm, Legal, not a good choice but one is faster.
I like the character, but not how they have directed the plot recently for him.
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Nanalinda
Member
08-06-2005
| Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 1:15 am
Did anyone see the season finale tonight? It was so good. TV shows don't usually don't make me cry but this one grabbed me. Gonna be a long wait til the new season starts.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 1:56 am
Yes!
I was happy, relieved, happier, then not so happy at the very end.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 1:18 pm
"Do you need me to listen to you anymore?"...made me chuckle after they had such a serious conversation.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 1:45 pm
I love you more......such a sweet ending.
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Chewpito
Member
01-03-2004
| Tuesday, March 27, 2018 - 7:41 pm
I love this show, and I am not a big TV watcher, but I always make a point of watching this one...I loved the ending..It was Perfect..
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