At the Access All Areas Now! has been very slow because we have been trying to fight for funding to build the business. Me, Jess and Andy are hoping to go on a Teaching and Management course. There will be a meeting soon to sought out what's happening. Work has been hard to get anyway due to the summer holiday but hopefully things will start picking up.
I one of many of people with learning disabilities have become MPs for the peoples' Parliament with the support of a Self - Advocacy group called Changing Our Lives who are MPs themselves.At the moment we are going through some leadership training.
During the summer my computer crashed but I still managed to do a bit of work on learning disability, friendship and relationships awareness. I have been writing a story called ' Action Speaks louder than Words'
It's about a woman with a learning disability named Jackie from Wolverhampton who goes speed dating at the Lighthouse chub building. A young man name Mark who doesn't have LD walks in, he gets told he needs to drink away from the restaurant part even though can still see the speeding dating going on. He liked the way different men were talking to different women. When the event finished at 9.00pm,Mark managed to give Jackie his phone number then walked to the bus stop. Jackey wasn't sure at first but she rang him before her speed dating results came through.
They had two dates, one on the phone and other at Jackie's house. They tried the Moon Under Water' but it was too packed out a Saturday night without any seats and they couldn't hear one another.
It turned out Mark promised Jackie the world, that he'd support her to move in with him, have his child, help her look after it and etc. As sooner as Jackie became pregnant he kicked her out of his house and decided he wanted women did have disabilities and who didn't need support, when Jackie had told him everything about her disabilities and the help she needs, he promised to give but didn't. Jackie lived with friends.
The baby was taken of her very quickly from social services and Mark. Jackie wasn't told what sex the baby was and where he or she was other than Mark putting he or she in and out of care. This led Jackie into very deep depression so badly that the friends she was living with Karen, Hana and the police saved her from taking her life at Beatles car park.
In the end she moved on, she did an English and creative at Bilston college, social services housed her in Bradmore and she found herself a new companion in life named Alex, what Alex was like is up to you readers to decide but he was a lot better than Mark.
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