Life lessons and rambles about life with a disablity.
So, I debated long and hard this post about writing due to the people involved and we are still dealing with the fallout, but I will do my best to censor myself and not throw myself under the bus. The first thing I need to say is that I am no angel and get tired of advocating for myself. In the same organization. Most people who have disabilities that are in the higher functioning range are sick of hearing it, and sick of telling support workers what they need, or even being dictated to by agencies, But what happens when a support worker abuses their power and this happens more than you would think to the point that there is a term for it due to the prevalence, Its called being care resistant and it means that everyone when the client finally accepts care they have to do extra work to gain the clients trust due to the fact that they can’t trust the very people who are supposed to care for them. [i] I have on YouTube and on this blog written about being abused by support worke