Sara Revealed
It is not easy being understood when you have a learning disability, or even making yourself heard. I am writing this blog to show how my disability affects my day-to-day life and what help & support I need. This blog is for those who learn and work in disability and mental health.
Poetry, writings and art blog
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
Monday, 13 January 2025
Editing the website
Hi everyone, sorry to write this report here as the website does not give much space to write elsewhere.
Just to say roughly like I said the other day, I will be trying to edit, change, and more old posts, which admit I have not thought to do before and I have had the website for nearly 18 years. I will be adding new posts too, plus I hope to add some art.
The reason for this is to try and make it more interesting. Sorry if I am not making sense, in spelling, grammar, and more as I do not get a lot of support but I will do my best. I would not expect you to do this but, feel free if wish to send any feedback you wish, if you wish to do so. Whether it is tips and ide
I can improve the website or anything else you may wish to feedback on.
Thursday, 9 January 2025
Special needs and mental health poems
Sorry
Sorry for not being able to spell correctly, I am not a good speller.
Sorry for not being able to make sense, I struggle to know what to say on paper.
I am no poet, I just try to express what I need and want to say.
If you do not understand me in my words, try to understand me in my pictures. I need to include more pictures in my drawings, paintings, and photos.
Hummingbird.
Her wings are the colors of the autumn fall, yellow and brown.
Her chest is red, orange, and brown.
She sings like an angel with wings.
The hummingbird is adorned with vibrant colors, including yellow, red, blue, green, and brown. These colors contribute to its beauty and make it an enchanting subject for artistic expression.
You.
Some things are better off not being said so open up to the most important things and people in your life. You cannot please everyone so just be you. Do not try to be someone you are not.
The poem about poems.
A lot of British people from my experience find poetry boring, I accept that.
I am British too, I agree and disagree.
Poetry is life and life is what you make of it so poetry is what you make of it.
Poetry is the mind, thoughts, and feelings about life around you.
It isn't poetry, it's words' outcome in life.
I am here.
I am here, where are you?
You may not be aware of my voice.
I may not be aware of your voice.
I hear nothing or you talking so fast, I don't know what you are saying.
I cannot remember what you said if you said anything.
I don't get on with the answer phone, it talks too fast, press this, press that, and press the other, it is a mind field.
I am better with an email or text.
It seems you are talking too fast for me, I am talking too slow for you.
There may be too much noise on your end and mine.
I can hear your voice but I cannot hear what you are saying or
I'm not aware of what you are saying.
Maybe it is not you be it is me.
Maybe it is my imagination.
Maybe I am out of my mind.
This is about what I face in general what I face with a lot of people not just with one person.
My mind is talking to me.
I am thinking so much I can hear a voice in my head, I am not sure if it is your voice or mine but it is there.
My mind is talking to me as if you are there even when you are not.
Whether we are in the same room, on a video chat, or on the phone, the voice carries on in my head talking about the chats I have had with whoever it may be even when they are not with me.
Am I crazy?
Am I mad?
Am I out of my mind or just insane?
This is just a weird feeling.
Surely I am not alone in this feeling.
I guess many others face similar if not the same.
Tuesday, 7 January 2025
2025 poems
Happy new year, poems of 2025, I need to keep everyone alive.
Let's hope we will find it's a good year for us all.
We will know in time.
Sorry I am late starting, let's close the down on 2024.
Winter.
January is a winter month.
It is a cold month.
White, grey skies.
No leaves on the trees.
Snow is all we know.
Winter can make you so low and slow.
Do not let it do that.
Teddy bear.
The teddy bear is so fluffy, white and soft.
Snowy is White as snow.
He never talks or answers back.
He's a toy boy.
My childhood friend until my end.
I am an ice cream.
It is hard to think of me in the winter because I am so cold.
I am creamy and soft.
I come in different colors like brown, green, yellow, red and pink.
Different flavors like chocolate, strawberry, mint, vanilla.
Snow.
The snow is white.
Children are building snowmen.
There are snowballs gong everywhere.
The sea
The sea waves.
Rushing, crashing, mashing.
The tide is going in and out.
The sea is blue.
The fish swim under and over the sea
He finds food as he drinks.
The fish and the frog swam in the pond.
Spider
The spider is big and black.
He has eight legs.
He came out of nowhere.
The duck and the eagle.
The duck got his foot stuck in the ice.
His other foot was free.
The eagle took his foot out of the ice.
The duck thanked the eagle, then he went quacking.
I guess, I just have not met him yet maybe I never will.
I have just not met him yet.
I guess I never will, I can accept that.
I am afraid of being alone and yet I am afraid of falling in love, that never scared me before.
Yet I hope in one way we will never meet because I would be afraid of losing, yet I hope we do meet because cause I am afraid of being alone.
Seriously what life gives me that's the way it will be.
Take every day as it comes, too old to worry now.
https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=anxiety
Looking so high down seems so far away.
The sound of a dog's bark feels like it makes you jump but
really it is their bite.
New world.
Over- whelmed by so many people I do not know.
May be I am facing social Anxiety.
I feel relaxed in my own company, yet everyone is very nice.
You can never tell the weather.
Spring cannot come soon enough.
When I first woke up, there was no sun.
In about half an hour, the sun came out as I pulled over back the blinds.
There is no difference between too hot and too cold.
It is either one way or the other.
Every spring, autumn, fall is a mixed bag.
Summer is too hot.
Winter is cold.
I see no snow drops in the snow.
Short days and long dark nights.
Roll on when the light mornings and evenings come.
Oh, dear Deer’s.
Oh, dear deer, you are eating my flowers and plants, eat the grass instead, it needs cutting.
When you are driving along country lanes, oh dear, deer are there, where do you come from?
Nowhere, it's more dangerous when it is dark when there is little or no light out in the sticks.
Even when you are walking, they suddenly stare you in the face, they look at you as if your crazy.
If only deer could read because we put safety signs up.
iCloud.
I see the clouds with my eyes.
My eyes are in the clouds, iCloud.
My head is in the sand.
The clouds are grey, then black, they burst into tears.
It is going to rain.
Now turn on the light, here comes the sun so bright!
Happy new year, poems of 2025, I need to keep everyone alive.
Let's hope we will find it's a good year for us all.
We will know in time.
Sorry I am late starting, let's close the down on 2024.
Winter.
January is a winter month.
It is a cold month.
White, grey skies.
No leaves on the trees.
Snow is all we know.
Winter can make you so low and slow.
Do not let it do that.
Teddy bear.
The teddy bear is so fluffy, white and soft.
Snowy is White as snow.
He never talks or answers back.
He's a toy boy.
My childhood friend until my end.
I am an ice cream.
It is hard to think of me in the winter because I am so cold.
I am creamy and soft.
I come in different colors like brown, green, yellow, red and pink.
Different flavors like chocolate, strawberry, mint, vanilla.
Snow.
The snow is white.
Children are building snowmen.
There are snowballs gong everywhere.
The sea
The sea waves.
Rushing, crashing, mashing.
The tide is going in and out.
The sea is blue.
The fish swim under and over the sea
He finds food as he drinks.
The fish and the frog swam in the pond.
Spider
The spider is big and black.
He has eight legs.
He came out of nowhere.
The duck and the eagle.
The duck got his foot stuck in the ice.
His other foot was free.
The eagle took his foot out of the ice.
The duck thanked the eagle, then he went quacking.
I guess, I just have not met him yet maybe I never will.
I have just not met him yet.
I guess I never will, I can accept that.
I am afraid of being alone and yet I am afraid of falling in love, that never scared me before.
Yet I hope in one way we will never meet because I would be afraid of losing, yet I hope we do meet because cause I am afraid of being alone.
Seriously what life gives me that's the way it will be.
Take every day as it comes, too old to worry now.
https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=anxiety
Looking so high down seems so far away.
The sound of a dog's bark feels like it makes you jump but
really it is their bite.
New world.
Over- whelmed by so many people I do not know.
May be I am facing social Anxiety.
I feel relaxed in my own company, yet everyone is very nice.
You can never tell the weather.
Spring cannot come soon enough.
When I first woke up, there was no sun.
In about half an hour, the sun came out as I pulled over back the blinds.
There is no difference between too hot and too cold.
It is either one way or the other.
Every spring, autumn, fall is a mixed bag.
Summer is too hot.
Winter is cold.
I see no snow drops in the snow.
Short days and long dark nights.
Roll on when the light mornings and evenings come.
Oh, dear Deer’s.
Oh, dear deer, you are eating my flowers and plants, eat the grass instead, it needs cutting.
When you are driving along country lanes, oh dear, deer are there, where do you come from?
Nowhere, it's more dangerous when it is dark when there is little or no light out in the sticks.
Even when you are walking, they suddenly stare you in the face, they look at you as if your crazy.
If only deer could read because we put safety signs up.
iCloud.
I see the clouds with my eyes.
My eyes are in the clouds, iCloud.
My head is in the sand.
The clouds are grey, then black, they burst into tears.
It is going to rain.
Now turn on the light, here comes the sun so bright!
Monday, 23 December 2024
What are special needs, difference between special needs and learning disabilities?
What are special needs, differences between special needs and learning disabilities?
According to my research with Google, there is and is not a difference between learning disability and special needs. The word disability is the legal term for whether people are facing physical or mental impairment. Special needs are the general term, meaning the support they need for their needs, which may be from other people, services, or support aids, which may vary according to the difficulties they face.
This does not mean people with special needs are certain of attention, they do not consider themselves to be treated any specially to other people only in what they need support for.
However, when it comes down to what people face, there is no difference between disability and special needs meaning the type of disabilities and the type of special needs, for example, Dyspraxia, which I will cover later in this book.
Special needs may vary according to their learning difficulties such as emotional behavior, learning disability or impairment.
This could affect everyday lives such as health care, careers, getting home, coping in their home, social lives, bathing, washing, showering, dressing, feeding themselves, coping with money, and more.
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Poetry 2024
COMPUTER CAT COMPUTER 🙀
Computer 🙀 cat where are you at?
Cool computer 🙀.
Purring, eating, mewowing, drinking, doing what cats do.
You are no other cat, you are a pc cat.
What about that?
You can create websites, create and send emails, receive emails,
use software, apps, search engines, computer programs, and more.
2coolcomputercat.com
am not anyone. I’m me.
This is not me, this is mental health awareness.
The feeling can be short or long.
Do not worry about me.
I’m real but I know what it is like to not feel oneself.
Some of us can fight to get through this feeling but others can not.
It’s like you are okay but you are not,
like a feeling you don’t want to be here whether you have everything or nothing.
Nothing and no one stops that feeling until it is gone,
for some people, it never does so
let people know you are there for them,
but only be there if or when they let you be.
My life is normal but someone else’s life might not be,
I’m not crying for help but someone else might be.
I am a figure of everyone’s imagination.
I am not here, I am just a handful of dust.
I am a ghost.
I am not a Centre of attention, I do not feel unwanted.
I don’t want to be here and not hear.
I am not ungrateful to life, I am very grateful to life.
I just feel I don’t want to be here and I don’t know why.
My life is good and bad like everyone’s yet it is hard,
even I don’t understand why I feel this way.
Everyone can write poetry.
Everyone can make poetry even if you cannot read and write the mind thinks even if you can.
We think, chat, or talk.
Not everyone can or wants to write a poem but we all have thoughts.
A poem is just words that may or may not mean anything.
There are rules for whether words rhyme or not.
We can all talk to each other
so why not write what
we say into a poem.
A poem of mind and voice.
Dis is thy a poem, this is thy a poem.
The mind never shuts up or
thinks nothing at all.
From writer’s block to too
much for one to say for themselves. December 2023
In the mind of the homeless. This is not about me; it is to raise awareness of others to spare a thought for those worse off than oneself. Christmas is coming when sitting in our warm homes, it’s easy for us to forget about those who do not have homes. Open your eyes to the world of homelessness. Try to put yourself in the shoes of others. Not all are on the streets to seek attention, which could be a source of reasons like family rows and yes then it is hard to know those reasons so do not judge people, mainly if you do not know. There are no two ways about it. THE HOMELESS YOUNGEST MINDS. Nobody in my family loves me. I know I could have been very naughty, but there is no need for my family to kick me out on the streets. I am terrified to go back home, but I know my family doesn't want me. I know I made a big mistake in thinking I could cope to find my own home, I just wanted to be an adult far too quickly. I realize now I was wrong thinking I could cope. I can't find any food to eat, but bits and pieces of bread. I sleep on the hard street floors, but some nights I sleep in cardboard boxes. Some people in the world choose to put themselves in certain situations, but it is hard to know who they are, and it is not our job to track those people down, it should be down to governments, it is too easy to misunderstand people. Many people, too, do not choose to be in certain situations; they are in whatever they are through no fault of their own. It is not your place to ask their reasons unless you know them, or they choose to tell you. It is hard to get into situations you are not in so never say you know what it is like if you have not experienced what others are facing. No matter what, no one deserves to be homeless. Only, it must not be fun living outside. Not having any money to buy food and drink. It is too easy to tell someone to get a job, one may understand why someone would say that but for some people, there may be all sorts of reasons why not, like not having an address, having certain disabilities, etc. It is hard to imagine what is like, to sleep rough on hard floors, cardboard boxes, etc., in all weather.
We are poets.
We see you.
We hear you.
We feel you.
We smell you.
We taste you.
We touch you.
None of these things you don't do to us.
Keats, Wordsworth, Thomas, Eliot, and many more.
They may not be here: but their work still lives on.
In memory and love, they will always be here with us. 8.9.2002
Monday, 4 November 2024
Disabled friends : Disability living
This group is for members with disabilities and other problems, such as disabilities, difficulties, mental health, long-term conditions, illnesses long term, lifetime, and more only. The options are to try and make friends, try to get support, and raise awareness of your own disabilities, and mental health so that, even most of if not some of the admin team share the same if not similar. There be no parents, carers, professionals, etc. on this group other than say maybe less than a few on of our Admin team, other than that the group is for you to be on here for any reason you want but there will be safety rules, guarding and purposes to keep everyone on the group safe. We want this to be a fun and enjoyable group so please feel free to invite people you may know who will be interested and benefit from this group, remember people with disabilities and other problems only.