{"id":1300,"date":"2022-08-04T19:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T23:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2022-08-04T19:33:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T23:33:17","slug":"joe-remembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/uncategorized\/joe-remembers\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Remembers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before Bliss<\/h2>\n\n\n
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It was bad.  I was a bad kid, I think.  I bit myself.  I cried when I had to go home on weekends. During the week, I stayed with my Aunt Irene before she got blind. She had limited vision when I was young. I liked being there with my cousins, Leslie and Garry. We enjoyed watching TV together, especially seeing the Monkees and Batman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I felt like a yoyo, going back and forth. At that age (before I was 6) I was wondering why I had to keep coming and going. I didn\u2019t understand at that age that my mother had to work. I thought that I was very dumb. I thought at first that she was giving me away. I wondered at that age, why I was so dumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning Bliss<\/h1>\n\n\n
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When I was in the Bliss class at OCCC beginning  in 1972-1973 school year, my best friend was Greg Keefe. I stayed over at his place and we took turns staying over at each other\u2019s place.  Our mothers were friends.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Joe and Greg in 1973 in the first Bliss Class<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Bliss was my mouth to talk. I remember \u201cboy\u201d and \u2018girl\u201d, and “mom” and “dad”symbols. I was shy so I didn\u2019t talk to the other kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had a crush on Sherri who was in Miss Norman\u2019s class. Greg did too! Sherri had black hair and she played with dolls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sherri Joe Greg
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I knew Kevin and David  (Shirley\u2019s two sons). We saw them playing outside when Greg\u2019s mom drove past Shirley\u2019s house. Mrs. Keefe stopped at Shirley\u2019s house 4 times. She beeped her car horn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember. Scott Bond. He was the same as me,  shy.  Here’s what Scott, Greg and I looked like in Shirley’s book “Symbol Secrets”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greg, Joe and Scott as they appeared in “Symbol Secrets”<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I also remember Mrs. Snetsinger and Mrs Barlow. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Mary Snetsinger and Judy Barlow, Bliss teachers at OCCC in 1973<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

There is another teacher I remember, Mrs. Bederman.  She used to tease me. She gave us grape juice on Jewish holiday. I don’t have a picture of her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is more to come….. about my move to Erin Oak Children’s Treatment Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Jessop will share more of his memories in the next episode.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before Bliss It was bad.  I was a bad kid, I think.  I bit myself.  I cried when I had to go home on weekends. During the week, I stayed with my Aunt Irene before she got blind. She had limited vision when I was young. I liked being there with my cousins, Leslie and … <\/p>\n

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