While at the QCP (164th Street in Queens) Holiday party I discovered that my brother Stephen is a budding photographer. Stephen is living proof of that! I’m also very Thankful and give much gratitude to AABR Stephen’s training center for nearly 30 years which has equipped him with job skills that give him a place in the workplace and a sense of personal pride and accomplishment! Stephen and I in December 1961. They are more than what or who society says there are. Please don’t allow our government to short change our disabled American citizens!! A person is not a label or a disability. Lopez at QCP Stephen might have never discovered and cultivated this hidden gift for photography. Wake Up People!! Without kindness, compassion and professionalism of Ms. Andrew Cuomo wanted to cut the budget for developmentally disabled citizens of New York once again condemning them to the warehousing of 1960s & 1970s. Today thanks to my parents, the caring staff people at QCP & AABR, my brother Stephen Vincent Palmer is a living testimony in what God can do in and with the lives of developmentally disabled/mentally challenged persons if they get the right help, support & encouragement. Thank you Lord that my parents did not listen to the dumb doctors but took their son, my brother home to raise him as normal as possible. Those of us over 45 know and remember the horrors Geraldo Rivera discovered at that terrible place. I Thank God every day for my parents faith and persistence that their child could and would learn. TESTIMONY & PRAISE REPORT TIME!! Just learning of Stephen’s photography talent testifies to the Glory and Greatness of God! Back in 1963 when my parents took Stephen to various doctors trying to find out my their son age 2 did not speak, these idiot stupid doctors told my parents that Stephen, then a two year old child would never amount to anything, could not be trained, could not learn and that they should give up and place him in an institution, which in those days would have been Willowbrook. Stephen Vincent Palmer ~ QCP Christmas Party 2013