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Anyways, time for another round of “you talk about people with high support needs with dignity and as an integrated part of your stuff so CLEARLY you aren’t advocating for the REALLY disabled people”
Can’t forget the assuming that you know every support need content makers have!
Can’t forget the assuming that you know every support need content makers have!
Yes, I do both personally and professionally advocate for:
- Robust access to AAC
- HCBS
- Higher pay for home staff
- Supported Decision Making
“THAT means you don’t support getting help for people with REAL support needs”
- Robust access to AAC
- HCBS
- Higher pay for home staff
- Supported Decision Making
“THAT means you don’t support getting help for people with REAL support needs”
No, actually, it means that I do! It means that I believe people with higher support needs or complex ones deserve to make choices about life. That’s it.
All of those things are a part of letting people live self directed lives, including people marked “too disabled” by you.
All of those things are a part of letting people live self directed lives, including people marked “too disabled” by you.
We are not the keepers of our community members. Any of them. It is our job to make sure that people have the ability to make fully informed, actually available choices about their lives. Every time. Every place. No exceptions.
There is no special, separate, “too disabled” category. People with complex or high support needs are our community. Period, point blank. It’s our job to integrate their access as a part of everything we do.
So, no, you won’t catch me making statements about ~those poor people~
So, no, you won’t catch me making statements about ~those poor people~
Because they are my people. Because I am too busy listening, and not making grand statements about it, because everyone deserves the respect of listening to learn and not to show other people you care.
We don’t choose to leave people behind.
We don’t choose to leave people behind.
And yes, I will make mistakes, and I will learn-just like I always do. But when the mistakes are about a given community, I hold myself accountable to *them*. Their opinions are the ones that matter to me.
