Annie in wonderland

  I am going to be doing a very deep dive hear but I know that people want to talk about the NDIS and what is wrong with it but we are getting side tracked by the fact that people who aren’t in disability circles or don’t know anyone who receives support, don’t know how complicated it is to get onto any type of care scheme that is offered in commonwealth countries, and even then the level of support you get can be questionable, and for me I present as very high functioning because I am until I get fatigued or tired and then I need to be able to ask for support and I have a very hard time doing this but this bring me to introducing what I am going to be talking about and it something that is very hard and complex to explain, that is restrictive   practices and in a very broad sense they can fall into two categories, Approved restrictive   practices and unapproved restrictive   practices,   these are practices that are generally outdated and as evident in the name used without approval f

So as I write this I am  upstairs in the new unit and it’s something that I didn’t feel safe to do in my other unit unless there was a support worker, in this house there is a support worker most of the time and I have much better access to support and they are much better suited to my needs and my team from the other house, has started to move with me but it’s a really difficult topic to talk about due to the fact that so many support workers come into the job with great intentions, but when the reality hits of people with what is called behaviour’s of concern we see that people need to be very aware of this and that the behaviour’s can be extreme to the point that no organization will take them on or they need to employ a private worker, but we see that this is a massive issue at the moment.  Due to people not understanding “hidden disabilities” these being Autism, brain injuries, ADHD, and mental health issues and you physical health can effect your mental health, so if you don’

  Hey guys so I will be going dark for a while as I move and I wanted to talk about respect in disability and this is something that with several agencies I have found that Respect is a massive thing for support workers and respect is demanded from clients but not demanded from the office staff as they seem to be so disconnected that people don’t understand what is happening until they are under the impression that they are in trouble and when someone gets to the bottom of it we see that people aren’t told what is happening so how can they plan and have a stable life, I can understand that changes in staff happen and that there is communication break thoughts but we see that people need to be much more aware of the way that big agencies treat people with disabilities, the seem to be a commodity that people don’t want to admit it but I have seen and herd people calling us cash cows and difficult and challenging behind our backs and this isn’t ok as people need to be aware of what is hap