Annie in wonderland

  There is something that we need to be aware of as women generally and as a person with a disability. There are several aspects we need to go into and they are: Personal safety / Physical safety Emotional safety Fiscal safety Personal safety is the safety around other people and having situational awareness and being able to understand, what is going on and adjusting your expectations. To what is happening with other people and figuring out other way's of doing thing and we see that people need to be able to adjust things as if you are living with others we need to be respectful. So waiting in line asking permission to come into a shared living space. As a support worker might be taking through some fairly heavy situations that don't involve you. Physical safety is similar but different from Personal Safety but it is more practical, so things that we see that it is around the basics of day-to-day living so having aids, to help you bathe or shower, such as chairs or not sh

This is going to be a very personal blog post however I see that people will resonate with it as we all have things that frustrate us, at work, play, or even people in our lives that do rub us up the wrong way but it’s not intentional. These are a couple of things that have annoyed me and I have been bottling them up for a very long time as well so this is something that we don’t talk about the day-to-day things that do annoy a person with a disability and it’s something that we do need to talk about as we see support workers talking about this and I have witnessed support workers talking about clients in public as well. A support worker came to work sick and gave me covid making me miss my nephew’s first easter as well and affecting my health. So, disregarding us as humans and treating this as an” ordinary job and it’s not an ordinary 9-5 job as you are caring for people, we see that this becomes a massive issue. As well as being dictated to in whom I can and can’t have in my house

This is such an interesting topic to get into that disability gatekeeping means that people, who don't have a disability, are telling those who do who qualify for care and who don't. It is such an interesting topic I thought I would have a crack at it.  This is the result of it and we see that it's a very interesting topic due to the fact that people need to be aware that this is happening and that people need to be guided into that it's actually happening due to the NDIS. 

  Ok so we really need to talk we now have medical professionals on drive time radio talking about the “gentrification of disability” and the Medicalization of disability and that people who are higher functioning don’t need the NDIS.   Well hold up this is not ok in the disabled community we talk about Allies, and this is not being a good Allie.   We need to talk about this a lot more than the medical professionals think it’s Ok to be able to essentially Gate keep our resources because they see an unfair distribution of resources, can I recommend that this medical professional do some reading on the history of the USSR and communism?   As we do unfortunately live in a capitalistic society and we see that this is just seen as a bad thing when people who start out having fewer resources are given the option to have the same punitive I see that equal opportunities are different from equality of outcome, equality of outcome can be quite dangerous and that we need to be able to work for

 So this video might not resonate with a lot of people but I strongly believe that it needed to be made due to several factor one being that we don't really talk about the "specifics" of challenging behaviors, we hear so much about them we forget that they do affect others and that they are now started to be accepted when they really shouldn't be accepted as normal.  We are also seeing an acceptance of disability to the point that it's being called the gentrification of disability and this isn't great as we see that this fundamentally dismisses the struggle of being disabled and doing the internal work to be able to see that disabled is just an adjective and we see that this is something that needs to be addressed.  I am seeing that I am unintentionally getting more and more isolated despite being around people and this is due to me having a very different outlook on life and it is such a thing in my life that was drilled into me that you admit when you are wr

  This is going to be a radically honest blog post and it’s something I think we need to be talking about a lot more about what I experience daily I am sure that I am not alone in it this being social isolation as I am not pushed to work by the government and my doctors don’t want me to and this leaves me with a lot of time on my hands and I am battling an internet addiction. As all of my friends are either married and volunteer and work part-time, Unmarried but work unsocial hours, or overseas and I only see them occasionally through Zoom and talk to them on the internet. I have realized that a lot of my depression comes from being isolated so I am setting myself up as a public speaker and I am reaching out to people who can help me to deal with these addictions as well. So this post is going to be an ongoing series about how I am going to try and find a community offline or even start to create one, as I know that the disability community in Toowoomba is a tight nit, but I am findi

  I have started seeking professional help for my internet addiction and I am going to get help I have asked for help from my support team in the house that I live in and this means having a very controversial thing in a place called a restrictive practice and we see that it needs to be in place for me to be able to function and to be an active member of the house and to be aware that I am socially isolated but I at the same time am surrounded by people and we see that this is an issue that needs to be addressed that we are all connected but not at the same time. We are connected to devices and not each other so I am going to be very intentional about seeking time off the internet and having screen-free time and this means going back to the drawing board.   this means looking for work so I am going to look at what is practical in my area as well as I am hamstrung because I   don’t drive so remote work is what works for me but then I am a people person so I think a balance of the two

    This is going to be a difficult post, to write as it is about the core of why I started the blog and it was about having something to work towards but I have discovered something, that I didn’t want to confront.   This is because disability despite international advancements still has a lot of stigma around it and stigma against people with disabilities.     I realize that there are programs to be able to help people with disabilities but in the short term, we have seen that people seem to get jealous when we level the playing field. I see that we do have things like the Americans with disabilities act, and we also have the anti-discrimination act in Australia but then when tempered with things such as “reasonable risk,” and “ the inherent ability to the job” we see that this could be considered code for people with disabilities to be not able to do the job when there are many people with disabilities that are able to work with a little bit of an adjustment. I   now see that di

I have noticed since the NDIS has come through that person who qualifies for it doesn’t know what they can do with a support worker in the community, so I am doing this post to do what you can do and this is something that we need to discuss and some of the things would be developmental age approached, but we see that people need to be aware that you can do lots of things with a support worker, the first thing is you need to establish your goals, so do you need help in the house so this is where you can get into a good morning and evening routine.   Depending on your budget there is a lot you can do and then, you can work out the skills that you want to develop it might be housework and cleaning, but then it might be like myself more in-depth so actively looking for things to be off the internet so, I know that  1.          The public library is always a good starting point, so they often have more than just books but games, and CDs I know that mine has basic streaming services, an

  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.    Hey guys so I am going to try some different content this is a day in my life when I get woken up at about 7.00am to 7.30 in the house and then I get dressed and ready for the day. So this is generally coffee breakfast and then chores that I am responsible for in the house, so folding any laundry from the night before, and light cleaning such as washing up. Then I generally start recording on YouTube around 9.00am and then I start drafting the blog posts I have moments of I am really passionate about the blog and very meh moments, at the moment I am pushing myself past the meh moments and this seems to be a very big thing in my life