This whole title Disabled is SO WRONG If you want to meet specially enabled people then I’d refer you to spend some time with so called ‘disabled’ people.
You won’t find many whinging about their lot or bemoaning the reasons for their differences. Far from it! Many are doing work to help others, given they can’t get paid jobs!
Likewise family carers are not tired from caring but caring without getting any support for their cared for person or themselves without a fight! Everything you need is a fight to get. Nothing is a service from the authorities.
It’s not enough that care in the community saves the nation £135 billion ..... money that would otherwise have to be found in taxation.
Make those same responsible caring people fight for a little respite .... even if only to enable them to work and thus support their cared for person more easily!
Or better still, if possible, support the special person to become a working enabled tax paying member of society!
Even if not capable of that, surely nobody would condone shutting away in isolation both the cared for and by definition also the carer in 21st C Uk?
That just leads to social isolation which leads to mental illness for carer and cared for which leads to more NHS bills/ suicides.
How short sighted and obvious is that?
Just for one moment imagine you had no say in your own life, no choices that you yourself could make, no social life and no chance of meeting friends, no opportunities to work, no place to call home and no way of changing any of that. You were totally reliant on others looking out for you and doing right by you.
Just stop and think and maybe at this time of good will you might just extend that good will into good thoughts and deeds.
Not ignoring, not closing eyes, ears and minds but actually caring!
Because if you think you have been supporting too many whingers for too long, think again and when you become one of those so-called whingers feel the reality! It’s waiting for so many of you! Wake up!
Unless you are all happy to sign a maximum age declaration before euthanasia or think you can avoid that serious accident or ethnic cleanse by genetics before birth you need to think hard about your futures even if you are incapable of thinking of others.
I am ashamed of people who pay lip service to ‘ being charitable ‘
We are the charitable ones saving your taxes!
Our cared for are not charity cases, they are the most special people you may ever have the pleasure of getting to know! If you ever took time out of your perfect materialistic worlds to find out you may know that already.
Yes I’m angry not for me ..... I have the pleasure of meeting and mixing with the most incredible people who put me to shame in so many ways and have taught me so much more than I ever would have learned any other way and given such joy and simple pleasure. It’s the system that stinks and it’s nothing to do with money it’s to do with attitude and self centred smugness that easily falls to the ground in seconds.
As one of those "Enabled" people I just wanted to say that behind every enabled person is at least one very loving, very caring, very dedicated, very loyal enabler. I’ve been very fortunate, I’ve had more than my fair share of people who have removed obstacles from my path and helped me conquer mountains that seemed impossible to climb. At the top of my list of enablers are my Mum and Dad. I was fortunate enough to have them around until I turned sixty, by then roles had inevitably changed and we were worrying about and caring for them. They are seven and eight years gone but I still miss them so bad, especially this time of year.
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