Annie in wonderland

    I am writing this on a Saturday, and I am getting used to the weather and changing my routine Given that I can’t drive I am reliant on others to drive me or to have workarounds such as public transport or taxis.   I am also grateful for people who will despite working long days listen to me or take me home or go walking with me as I make the effort to be a better person as I haven’t for a long time been my best self. I have been trying recently to defend my connection with others despite this being a challenge for me to connect with others. I do have a struggle with what is appropriate and what is an excuse vs what is a reason for me to need support and it’s a challenge that I didn’t realize until I started doing some background reading for this post to be aware that it’s a challenge for people, who also live with disabilities and being higher functioning to be able to accept the help.   It reduces the burden on the family as well, it’s just a question of how to use the support y

This is a post that I think is very timely to write as I write this in Australia several court cases are going on around the internet and how people were either exposed or taken out of context, and as a person with a disability or if you are a person with a disability this can be easily done and can really harm the person.  The internet has fundamentally changed the way that we communicate and even earn money or classify money, when I was a teen it was the “weird” and nerdy kids that had well of parents that had a computer and the internet and crypto weren’t even mainstream, I do admit I do miss those days because we had much more real-life connection and if you made a mistake you could change schools and or move jobs and people would be much more understanding. Yet now we face that the internet is permanent and we see that in Australia we have something very unique in our laws that came out of a very heart-breaking situation, a law that is called dolly’s law and it basically means

  What is the digital divide and how is it relevant in disability care? I So let’s start by breaking down what is the digital divide, it is basically those who have access to stable, internet that isn’t blocked by the state or other bad faith actors.   However we do see that people need to be able to afford to pay for the service and this can be another issue if you can’t access the internet then how do you, do most things that people do online these days? Like job searching, like watching streaming services or on-demand TV, we see that this is distinctly different from those who for ethical, health, or religious reasons have chosen to go screen-free In saying that we see that in being screen-free in their home they might have access to screens through other places like their work or public libraries, They understand what is a conscious decision and they can work around it.   However, what I am talking about is those who don’t have a choice in the matter because they can’t affo