Disablity and why I agree with Dr Jorden Peterson.

  So as the title says I agree with Dr. Peterson. Some in the disability community feel that he doesn't really get the limits we have but he is speaking to a very wide audience. Generally, an audience of lost disaffected people mostly men, who have been raised on a diet of everyone gets trophies, social media, and learning about their rights but not their social responsibilities. 

He is teaching them very basic topics that turn a lot of them from men who are angry at the world to men that are taking responsibility for their lives. 

So some rules are sensible and were taught but the way that social media has stripped away critical thinking and the ability of people to form relationships in real life and to grasp that things that you say online would have real-world consequences. To have someone talk the real honest truth to them seems to be the wake-up call that they needed.

12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson: Summary, Notes, and Lessons - Nat Eliason

One of his rules is to aim at something and see where you end up, so having a simple goal; this will be different for people with disabilities, their aim is to have to be different, have to be archivable in their lives, and not set themselves up for failure. 

So this then asks the wider question of what is achievable in a disability context, if the person is born with a disability then have they been educated on what is achievable for them? Have they been educated about what barriers they will face and how to overcome them or if they can overcome them? 

This is a hot-button question as something that I have discovered is that as people with disabilities due to advances in technology and awareness there is an expectation that we will have the same life outcomes and same skills, but this isn't always possible so how do we aim at something in a disability setting?  

One really simple answer is simply getting your life to not focus on self-help, routines, or even 10-year goals, but simple answers, that then lead to the next answer, have you eaten today, showered, or done any rehabilitation you need to if you had to give up work are you looking for some purpose in a support group, hobbies, finding a new job, or even doing some volunteer work that gets you around people. 

Also, I will pose the question about what is the difference between self-responsibility, self-respect, and self-care in disability as the media seem to have gotten muddled a bit as self-responsibility looks a lot like self-care when you're being practical about it.