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Body positivity, chronic illness and Disablity

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Disclaimer – That these are my own lived experiences and understanding from the research that  I do around the NDIS and health-related topics please be aware that it is informational only and not to be used as a substitute for professional advice or working with a Planner, Disability Advocacy service or talking to your Medical and Allied Health team.    So this was such an interesting video to record and to watch the reactions to it as it seems to have resonated with so many people. In different ways but to tell the story behind this video we see that we need to know the characters that I am referring to,  The White Saviour friend  -   It is someone who wants to save you from a terrible fate, being disabled or living with a chronic illness. and I know that I am borrowing this term from indigenous peoples experience's with  c olonization  and from people who have been historically and systemically oppressed due to popular thinking leading to segregation and separation from the rest

Magnus Bane and Comfort items Part one.

So this is going to focus on Magnus from the TV and book series shadow hunters, So as we are aware Mangus is a Warlock and the warlocks are immortal downworlders, the world is quite brutal world expands as there are Shadowhunters that are born to hunt demons and to help protect the world from demons and they live in what they call the shadow world and this world is quite a brutal world and even though it does have it’s own rules of engagement and equivalent to the Geneva convention, and human rights, the accords and we see that Magnus was at the signing of the accords and have seen things change over the centuries of both Shadowhunters and mundane attitudes towards down worlders or classes and the shadow hunters seem to follow this trend.  And there are a lot of differences between the shadow hunters and the down worlders but there is also a loss of relics that belong in this world.    Some through design and some through war and age, as we see in the books that there is a whole line o

My Story and reasons for blogging, continued my story fleshed out a bit more.

 When I started this blog I had a lot going on in my life I had to move back into the family home, and this caused stress that I didn't even realize until now.  However, I did rebuild my life with the help of my family, friends, and support workers under the NDIS. However, I want to do this post as a warning to others to not get into the situation that I did and to understand to "trust," the NDIS system as when it works it works really well.  However I see that when the system doesn't work it really doesn't work well for people and we see that this can be a massive issue as well and one of the core reasons I started the blog as I would like to be a disability advocate but we see that this is a space with lots of diversity as people with disabilities that are very diverse as well, so  I am not sure how to get change happening but I can use my talents and write and raise awareness there as well. I want to be able to change people's minds around the concept that

Mangus Bane and the Deal, and similarities' to disablity decision making.

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This is going to be a hard post to write, and I do wonder about how it shows people with disabilities are treated every day. We see that Alec is hiding his decisions from his mother he did talk about this to Izzy but we see she tried to talk him out about it.  So, in Alec making this deal we see that he sacrificed for Mangus out of love for him, we do see that people need to be aware of what is happening to people in their lives. We see that Asmodeus was quite manipulative in asking Alec to break up with Magnus.  He doesn't have Magnus's best interest at heart and we see that this does become an issue in that Magus was used by both the Shadowhunter, Vampires, and Asmodus we see that this all comes together and we see that Mangus was able to use humor as a tool to defuse bad situations but we see that when people start making decisions for him without him he gets angry and this is very common in disabilities we call it acting out, however when the person has some control in thei

What do we really mean when we say person centred care.

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  Image by  Gerd Altmann  from  Pixabay   (This is all my own views and links are included in the blog please get professional advice on your situation)  What is person-centered care in the disability approach?   So we need to start out by saying that there are several approaches to disability care and they have very different world views attached to them, the first one is the medical model of disability that says that we are broken and that we should be cured and that then we can contribute to the world.   The second one is the social model of disability which says that it is the society that disables us and that we need to be aware of this and that by fixing some things in society the disability will have less impact and it also makes people aware that disability isn’t something to be feared it is just a way of being, and that disability impacts people in very different ways as well.   So this is where the person-centered approach comes from and we see that this is an offsh