Pain discussed
The National Bullies Initiative convened an emergency symposium in response to this CNN story about a young girl who suffers from congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA).Breakout sessions included 24a: Modes of Inflicting Pain on the Insensate Child and a roundtable on whether CIPA sufferers taint statistics of taunting quotas.
Bully adjutant Jeff Nobrega was concerned that the revelation would be a blow to bullies' morale, despite the comparative rarity of CIPA cases to other bully inhibitors, such as kids who fight back or who have older siblings hiding nearby.
"This changes our perception of pain," Nobrega said. "Does pain exist if they don't cry?"
The mood was lightened by Bully Poet Vapo "Teep" Ramirez, who recited limericks from his Pinkbelly series.
The symposium concluded upbeat.
"I guess what we consider pain has always been spiritual, no matter how we choose to perpetrate it," Nobrega said. "We've sent word to Bullies everywhere that they should make physical pain just one color on an eclectic palette that includes mental, financial, and wedgie-based pain."
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by Marty Barrett at Friday, February 03, 2006
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