Annie in wonderland

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.   This is going to be a difficult post to write, and I know it will generate a lot of discussion about manipulation, but we need to be honest it happens to everyone and you know that you are being manipulated.   However the question we need to ask here is what happens if you have a disability and it’s the only way to get what you want and have care workers that don’t realise you are able to do it. So the first thing we need to get out of the way is that some people with a disability have been raised in healthier environments than others and this means that they know healthy ways to get there needs to be met, in others it’s a massive issu

The issues of social media.  'The winter of our disconnect.' By Susan Maushart published in 2010   I read a book a while ago called 'The winter of our  disconnect.' It was an experiment in going screen-free for a year her herself and her 3 teens and the results it had on the family. This was back in 2008 so we need to see where we have gone with the internet from there the issues she outlined have only got worse during the pandemic and as the technology has gotten more advanced and the issues around it have got more complex and the complexity of the socio-political landscape has got worse and more polarized due to the internet and that we can be connected from anywhere as we did see the internet used more and more to keep people connected during the pandemic.   However, we saw that this created more issues than it solved. As I will discuss as I have based this post on several of her quotes in the book and I do encourage you to go and find the book and read it an