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MHMR helps retarded
adults find friendship
ABILENE (AP) — When Donald
Baird sinks his teeth into a juicy bur
ger, his face has that familiar look of
hunger finally satisfied.
When his mother is hospitalized
with heart problems, Donald Baird’s
eyes betray his worry.
And when Donald Baird meets
someone new, he has that slight,
stomach-quivering feeling that ner
vously mixes with the excitement
and anticipation of potential
friendship.
Normality? Yes.
But Donald Baird is mentally re
tarded.
Robbye Wilde is the coordinator
of volunteer services and public in
formation for Abilene’s Mental
Health and Mental Retardation Cen
ter. Without denying Donald’s men
tal disability, she’ll affirm Donald’s
normality with an emphatic “Yes!”
Then, with combined sadness and
anger, she’ll tell you about the ste
reotype — the one Donald is lumped
in, ironically, by people who don’t
even know him.
The category is assigned by adjec
tives such as “strange,” “not-with-it”
and “dangerous.” The image the
word “retarded” conjures people
with major intellect loss and no con
trol of bodily functions.
“Ninety-nine percent of people
with mental retardation are just like
you and me,” she says. “And the
needs are the major things we sha
re.” One of those very basic needs
often denied to the retarded she says
is simple friendship.
“And to deny them friendship is
to deny them the dignity of being a
human being,” she says.
MHMR finds volunteer friends
for its clients, friends that bestow
dignity.
Just ask Donald Baird.
Baird, 35, and Michael Holley, 18,
sat shoulder to shoulder, Baird
clearly excited at the prospect of be
ing interviewed.
“You see, I’m the biggest,” Baird
jokes, elbowing Michael. “I’m a spe
cial friend to him since I’m the old-
Baird’s attitude sobered as he be
gan shaking his head and reflecting
on the days before Holley.
While adequate, life in his
providership home, where trained
citizens look after him, and work on
a janitorial crew did not foster the
development of any close
friendships.
As the void began to take its toll,
Baird’s behavior began to change —
unprofitable and unacceptable
changes.
Robbye Wilde sensed the need for
friendship.
Holley, a freshman Bible-society
major at Abilene Christian Univer
sity, sensed something else. Some
thing Wilde might call a spiritual
overflow of goodness. Holley acted
on it in September 1989.
“I felt like I had a lot of time and
resources to give,” Holley says. He
thumbed through the yellow pages
and called MHMR.
“I mean, it was like God sent him
(Holley),” Wilde says. “It was that
quick.”
Baird displays a similar sentiment.
“I thought he was the person God
had sent my way,” he says. “It just
touched my heart when I first saw
him ... I was kind of depressed.
“When I see him — it just makes
me feel like I’m somebody special to
have a special friend like him.”
Every week and a half or so, Hol
ley plans something — eating at the
mall, video arcades, miniature golf
or a concert. And talking all the
while.
“Our friendship — it’s an equal
friendship,” Holley says. “It goes
both ways. I can tell him anything.
In return I’ve received much more
than I’ve given.”
Sherry Griffin, 34, works with the
mentally retarded every day as spe
cial populations supervisor for the
city’s
she
Recreation Department. But
stepped outside her job and vol-
;ered her friendship.
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solves them,” a laughing Benton
says.
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friendship. She calls it “being
around someone you like.”
“And I like being around Sherry,”
she adds.
The two like to eat out together
and enjoy going to movies.
“I really really enjoy being around
Darlene,” Griffin says. “It’s just like
with any other of my close friends.
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within you that you understand and
realize about these individuals. I
have that understanding that these
individuals are just like myself,” she
said.
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I It just touched my heart
when I first saw him ... I was
kind of depressed. When I
see him — it just makes me
feel like I’m somebody
special to have a special
friend like him.”
—Donald Baird,
MHMR buddy
his shyness.
“I’m a quiet person,” Way says
slowly, looking down at his hands.
But Way’s volunteer buddy, Kee
nan Wynn, says that comes in handy
when you’re trying to fish. And
that’s what the two like to do.
“We went out to Nelson Park, but
we won’t talk about that now,” says
Wynn, 27, smiling. Apparently, the
two have yet to make that one big
catch to brag about.
Wynn, who is stationed at Dyess
Air Force Base, answered Wilde’s ad
in the base newspaper, looking for a
volunteer friend who liked to fish.
“It’s just people getting to know
people —just another person to talk
to — a friend to fish with,” he says.
“And a popcorn eater,” he joked,
adding that the two plan to take in a
lot of movies together.
Terry Brooks and volunteer
friend Scott Todd — another Air
Force man who responded to
Wilde’s ad in the Dyess newspaper
— lift weights together at Abilene’s
Power Shack Gym.
Todd, 27, who works with the
base bomb squad, ranks fifth in the
nation in his powerlifting divison.
“The good Lord gave me the abil
ity to do what I can do,” he says.
“The least I can do is share it.”
Brooks, 33, is convinced that
Todd can do a lot more than lift
weights.
“He’s a good man,” Brooks says.
Todd has encouraged Brooks to quit
smoking, promising him a pair of
stretch pants if he can go without a
cigarette for two months.
The two clearly are buddies.
Their conversations are peppered
with laughter as they continuously
joke with one another.
“He’s just like anyone else in this
gym,” Todd says. Except, he adds,
Brooks has more drive than the av
erage weight lifter.
“If some guys took the heart that
he had for lifting, they could go a
long way,” he says.
Brooks will test his skills this sum
mer when he and Todd and their
wives travel to Galveston for a
weightlifting meet. Brooks will com
pete in the Special Olympics divi
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“Terry is a part of this gym,”
Todd says. “He’s a part of all of us.”
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