Thursday 14 October 2010

What are learning disabilities?

There all kinds of disabilities in all kinds of people.
Some people one disability others have a lot more than one.
Disabilities can be physical or and mental depending on the cause and when they happened, which could before, during or after birth.
Mental disabilities affect the brain and physical disabilities affect the body.
Some people have Mental and Physical disabilities, others have one or the other and some have both.
Disabilities affect your everyday life by slowing your brain and body down, which can make it hard for you to learn.
Most people think people with disabilities are thick because we take longer to learn than they do but at end of the day we get there in the end.
Slower the job better the job.
Most things in life aren't possible without support so most rights are taken away from people with disabilities because we haven't got the right support or none at all.
Learning disabilities can affect everyday lives in different ways depending on the people who are having to cope with learning disabilities.
For example cooking, shopping, washing, bathing , dressing; work, education, employment, making friends, relationships and etc.
These are things that people can forget that most people can't cope with because they can.
People with disabilities can be the odd ones out of society because we need extra help than other people with different things.
How can you help people with disabilities to have the same rights as you do with the right support by our choices of life. Email me on sarajgorman@googlemail.com

Saturday 2 October 2010

My Up to Date Learning Disability Awareness

Everyone has to cope with the down part of life losing a job, reationship breakdown and etc. If something meant a lot to you, when you lose it you can become so unhappy it makes you ill. More often than not when one thing goes wrong the other does. This can cause everyone anxiety, stress and depression as it is but what if it's already there inside you without anything and everything to make sad all at once? You can be more ill than someone without Health problems and disabilities. If anything or and everything is hard for you please email me on sarajgorman@googlemail if you need someone to talk to.

I would like to raise awareness of Anxiety, Stress and Depression within people with all Disabilities and all Health problems. There are many things in people's minds that have happened to them but they are frightened to say in fear of not been able to explain ourselves, been misunderstood and disbelieved. I would also like to raise awareness of Learning Disability Hate Crime mainly rape ans sexual abuse, which can be a very hard topic for people to talk about, mainly people with disabilities and Health problems. This can damage our minds mainly when there are bad things that happened to us years ago than we have tried to tell or frightened of not been able to explain ourselves. People need to listen to people like us more but not force information out of us because the more bad things stop in our minds the more damaged our minds becomes.

This can happen to children whether they have disabilities and Health problems or not but if you have these problems already with everyday problems on top your misunderstood for life then. This is where people with disabilities and Health problems need to educate the world to understand us otherwise our minds will never be believed, listened to or understood. Society should have more time for us. This can be due to a lack of communication and understanding. Please google Accessible information Easy read. sarajgorman@googlemail.com for your views on this topic.

Friday 1 October 2010

Listen to people's voices and minds more.

When I was a little girl I never knew about child abuse and rape but it still happened to me. It's very scarley and hard to talk about but it can damage your mind. No matter how hard to you try nothing seems to make you feel better. I understand there are plenty of people all ages who have been through the same as me and I know it's not easy or nice to talk about but big it can have big affects on your lives that the world doesn't see. When I was little today's support wasn't heard of so you had to be strong whether anyone knew not, in many cases not because these things were very rarely heard of or even seen. Theses things do happen, you can use your voice if you want but listen someone more if they use their voice. I know there's plenty of you like me, if you want to be listened to please email me on sarajgorman@googlemail.com

There's all kinds of abuse but sexual abuse and rape is the wrost.
Take more time to listen to children, people with disabilities and Mental Health problems sadly it does happe it should be listened, even better it should stop.
Please let's be heard not just seen.

These things can have a affect on your life. You can go through the same things as someone else but it may not have the same affects on you as it does on them for example.

Sleepness nights because it's hard to get off your mind, nightmares and flashbacks, not wanting to face the next day because your scared of it happening tomorrow, reationships and friendships towards people, poor self - estream, eating disorders, scared to tell anyone and many more. If anything has damaged your life like those examples I have given you are welcome to email me if you want. sarajgorman@googlemail.com

Never think of yourself as a victim, you are a brave survivor. If your like me you lived in a time without any support, you had to counsel your own mind in order to get through everyday, which is hard to do. I remember wanting to run away from school but scared of it happening while I was outside the school. Many times in boarding school I have wanted to ring my Mum to tell her why I was so unhappy there but I didn't know how to. Remember not wanting to live anymore but somehow got over that.That's another way it can make you feel is empty but I am glad I have coped because I have achieved so many good things in life passing my exams in college, helping others like myself and etc. Never the less a childhood history like that through young adulthood is a lot to put behind but you just think about good things you have in life. I am very glad I haven't got children because I wouldn't be relaxed but a very worried Mother.