Library Footage. Interview with Hal Rhodes

lives trying to figure out how to make their life work. That individual is handicapped, handicapped in a legitimate sense that there's a biochemical need that must be met and must be sanctioned. And very often the complexity and the controversial nature of taking care of that in and of itself is a problem. The second thing is that if one is to be honest about it and come out of the closet as it were to present the problem when they were looking for employment or education or being treated as a normal and acceptable person, the problems associated with that. So what happens is they find solace in the comfort of their friends who are many of whom facing the same problems and who together can bolster each other's strength to go through day after day justifying the life that they live rather than risk the rejection of. And in all likelihood the reality of the rejection of the community that we're trying to move them toward. And often it's so discouraging and disappointing that those individuals finally make up their mind to live at least an A -social of not an anti -social life. All right. Peace.