Flower of Algernon. Charlie is a guy with a mental disability. Charlie has trouble making friends. He thinks that if he becomes smart then he can have more friends. When it comes to friends, smartness isn't everything. People are different. There are many other things that can make you have friends. You can be nice, outgoing, a nice person, just a person with a nice attitude. In our school there are many different kids. We have the sport players, the cheerleaders, the smart kids, the jocks. Charlie has many challenges like learning, paying attention, making friends, and being bullied. How many friends a person has is determined by how likable they are, how humorous, and how many people they know. A lot of kids see the smart kids like geeks. But that's not all we should see in them. We should see their personalities and what they like to do. Not about how smart they are. Then there are those kids who see kids and say that they're dumb because they might not understand something as well as they can. People with serious mental disabilities have a really rough time making friends. Not so smart people have a lot of different problems than smart people do. Not so smart people can have financial problems because they don't have a good enough education to learn all that is needed to do all that. Another problem that people with disabilities have is that they don't know where to place their money. A problem that smart people is that they have a hard time keeping track of what they spend their money on. Most of their problems can be about where they work. Charlie cannot make friends easily because he has a mental disability. People don't except him for who he is. Their disability impares their social skills.
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