To the editor:
It was with shock and outrage that I read last Tuesday’s “Page Two” column from Editor Nuttle. (Full disclosure: The column, actually, was read to me, as I am a plushie, of the particular species ursus theodorus, and have difficulty holding a newspaper.) “Irregardless,” as the grammatically-challenged Owl might say. The column was a direct slap in the snout to all the beloved creatures who inhabit A. A. Milne’s Hundred Acre Wood. Pooh with OCD? Tigger with ADHD? Piglet with GAD? And all of this furnished by the Canadian Medical Association – a group from a nation that last week celebrated Thanksgiving seven weeks early! If Owl, supposedly, is a victim of dyslexia, then these medical oracles from Ontario surely suffer from dyscalculia!
I am sure Editor Nuttle means well, and her advocacy of greater understanding and tolerance of mental health problems is certainly exemplary. But next time spare the woodland creatures – Donald Trump and his entourage could surely provide a more fertile field of mental disorders and deficiencies.
Theodore A. Bear
Bennington
(Mr. Bear lives in Bennington with Daniel Sullivan and Eileen Terrill, who read to him articles of
interest from the Ledger-
Transcript almost every week.)