Annie in wonderland

  Hey all so I am going dark for 6 to 12 months I have said a few things that have really hurt some people in my life and I am going to concentrate on being and doing better I don’t know if I will re- start the blog but I will leave it up for now but there may not be any new content so I will see how things are going if there is something that I need to speak up on.  

Hey, guys so this video was something that came out of a heated discussion with family and close friends as I might have offended them with my What is a disability video that I cross-posted to Facebook and this is one of the major downsides to having ADHD, the impulsivity doesn’t really go away it just gets easier to manage. But we are talking about how vulnerable people with disabilities are we forget to talk about their strengths and what they have overcome. I know that some people don’t like us talking about it but the people who actively put content on the internet and are running blogs, Tic tocs, podcasts, and YouTube accounts well they have lots of skills, and being disabled is just one part of them. So they might have skills that people without disabilities might not understand that they do have that could be of benefit to a boss, to a company, or to a volunteer organization. But what do we define as skills, we need to be able to define them before we go into the deep dive o...

    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 ...

  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 p...

    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...

  I am going to be doing a very deep dive hear but I know that people want to talk about the NDIS and what is wrong with it but we are getting side tracked by the fact that people who aren’t in disability circles or don’t know anyone who receives support, don’t know how complicated it is to get onto any type of care scheme that is offered in commonwealth countries, and even then the level of support you get can be questionable, and for me I present as very high functioning because I am until I get fatigued or tired and then I need to be able to ask for support and I have a very hard time doing this but this bring me to introducing what I am going to be talking about and it something that is very hard and complex to explain, that is restrictive   practices and in a very broad sense they can fall into two categories, Approved restrictive   practices and unapproved restrictive   practices,   these are practices that are generally outdated and as evident in the name...

So as I write this I am  upstairs in the new unit and it’s something that I didn’t feel safe to do in my other unit unless there was a support worker, in this house there is a support worker most of the time and I have much better access to support and they are much better suited to my needs and my team from the other house, has started to move with me but it’s a really difficult topic to talk about due to the fact that so many support workers come into the job with great intentions, but when the reality hits of people with what is called behaviour’s of concern we see that people need to be very aware of this and that the behaviour’s can be extreme to the point that no organization will take them on or they need to employ a private worker, but we see that this is a massive issue at the moment.  Due to people not understanding “hidden disabilities” these being Autism, brain injuries, ADHD, and mental health issues and you physical health can effect your mental health, so if...

  Hey guys so I will be going dark for a while as I move and I wanted to talk about respect in disability and this is something that with several agencies I have found that Respect is a massive thing for support workers and respect is demanded from clients but not demanded from the office staff as they seem to be so disconnected that people don’t understand what is happening until they are under the impression that they are in trouble and when someone gets to the bottom of it we see that people aren’t told what is happening so how can they plan and have a stable life, I can understand that changes in staff happen and that there is communication break thoughts but we see that people need to be much more aware of the way that big agencies treat people with disabilities, the seem to be a commodity that people don’t want to admit it but I have seen and herd people calling us cash cows and difficult and challenging behind our backs and this isn’t ok as people need to be aware of what is...

Hi all so I am writing this as a follow up to my ablism video and I know that the first rule of the internet is to stay away from the comment sections but when you get this often used phrase around the only true disability is a bad attitude it comes across as rude and simply ableist as people get very uncomfortable very quickly when you start talking about disability and I have to say that yes at times a bad attitude gets in the way if you have a disability but this comment I know the person had “good intentions” but we know that the road to hell is paved with good intentions and we need to be able to work with what we have but at the same time we need to acknowledge  that disability is very real and there is very real links between disability and mental health due to comments like this one and I do admit that I felt attacked with what was said as I have worked so hard to even admit that I have disability’s and am worthy of help and assistance, we see that people need to be able to...

I am going to be doing a very deep dive hear but I know that people want to talk about the NDIS and what is wrong with it but we are getting side tracked by the fact that people who aren’t in disability circles or don’t know anyone who receives support, don’t know how complicated it is to get onto any type of care scheme that is offered in commonwealth countries, and even then the level of support you get can be questionable, and for me I present as very high functioning because I am until I get fatigued or tired and then I need to be able to ask for support and I have a very hard time doing this but this bring me to introducing what I am going to be talking about and it something that is very hard and complex to explain, that is restrictive  practices and in a very broad sense they can fall into two categories, Approved restrictive  practices and unapproved restrictive  practices,  these are practices that are generally outdated and as evident in the name used witho...