Annie in wonderland

    I am taking a break from housework as I am listening to the work of RD Lang he was a very controversial psychiatrist who did something amazing and it has a lasting legacy today and I am just diving into his work. His most famous work is the Kingsley Hall experiment, made famously but the film staring David Tennant called Mad to me normal and we see that what he did was transform psychiatrists from simply medicating people and turning them into zombies to taking them out of their shitty environment generally institutions and giving them dignity and living with them. He when looking through the lens of modern thinking he was really ahead of his time in the fact that he was able to see past the mental illness and see the person, to me and I need to do some more digging I feel that this was the start of person centred   care as we see that people need to be very aware of what is happening in the field of mental health and he didn’t see his clients as “ uncompliant” or drug resistant

  We need to do better. I am writing this as an observation that in Australia we are failing people with disabilities on so many levels and this is not great at all to see and observe.  I saw on the news stream that we on a federal level have a surplus and I understand that this is a good thing but we need to be aware that people need to do better for people with disabilities.  Those of us in the disability community are waiting for the final reports from the disability royal commission and we are still counting the cost the cost is just fiscal it’s the harm that has been caused in people's lives and not only that how many people through the impact’s of not having the care they need or the encouragement they need to be better or to achieve what they are capable of, as we need to be aware that people with a disability as we have seen are at greater risk of harm from the very people supposed to protect them. We are seeing that many disability service providers don’t pass the bu

    So, I am writing in my new home and see that it has been a game changer. There is also something that people, need to see and understand about support, it does depend on the clients, but it also depends on the team in the housing facility. I have realized I am not entitled, I am just simply getting the help I need, and I understand that this is coming from a place of privilege, as I haven’t always used the D word. This word being the word “ Disabled” I didn’t think despite me living with a TBI that I was able to use the word as I was able to work,   I was able to drive but I couldn’t live on my own and I am still not prepared to talk on line about this but I see that people need to be able to use the words that describe them without fear, these being Disabled and High functioning as I am Disabled but at the same time I am high functioning. It's not offensive to tell the truth about what I am it’s not what identify with it what I am, and if this offends you I would question