A lot of people don't realize
that there are a lot of people who disabilities who are famous. Like I have
said in one of my reports on my website, there were a lot of people with
disabilities who didn't become famous until they died. People like Isaac Newton,
Albert Einstein, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Beethoven, Bela Bartok, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss, W.B Yeats, George Orwell, Charles Dickens
Lewis Carroll, Thomas Jefferson, and many more who had Autism according to the
Internet. There are and were famous people with many other disabilities too.
These people were writers, artists, composers, worked in science, and many more things. How people have known this I don't know, perhaps they have
been researching their lives to create these sites on the Internet. I'd be very
interested to know what you do and don't believe. It's hard to say with the
people who aren't with us anymore because in those days people weren't educated
to know what disabilities are. We must be careful because it's too easy to think
if people didn't cope with school education, they must have had some form of
disability. Some people may have been bullied or have problems at home, which
could be another reason for not doing well at school. It isn’t just about that
can be how they were at the beginning of life, for eg, slow at speaking.
I get into a route too easily and takes me a long
time to get into another one, which may seem boring to others, but my life can
be the same every day in some ways but not necessarily in others.
I would like people who face the same but
similar to me to travel by train from my own experience.
When you
live out in the countryside it’s hard to travel by train compared to a town or a
city.
I lived in the countryside when I was in my teenage
years, and it was very hard to get about and make friends.
My Mother
used to have to take me wherever and pick me up from wherever. Mind you, I
never had many friends in school I was bullied a lot.
However,’
people with Autism find it hard to cope with very busy surroundings. Most
people with disabilities don’t drive, due to having disabilities, etc that
prevent them from driving, such as myself.
Some towns are easier to get about than others. For
example, although Wolverhampton these days is quite dull, grey, and dirty in a lot
of ways because of it being small other ways it’s quite easy to get around
even though I wouldn’t advise safety wise anyone let alone vulnerable people to
hang around there too long, which is no more different to most other places either.
Some people need help with getting out and about,
copying with money, etc, which is another problem I have faced. Many people with
disabilities don’t have social lives due to awareness of hate crimes etc,
there’s not always enough money and help to make this possible for people. I
used to go uptown every night on my own, when I was seeing my ex-boyfriend, I
had friends, but some turned out to be the wrong sort of friends. In 2012, I started drinking at my local pub when I left my ex-boyfriend been drinking ever since, I drink rarely uptown
now. Saying that all pubs, clubs, and most other places are closed now due
to the Coronavirus so we are now in a lockdown, which could last any length of time.
The longer most people are not following the
government rules the longer it will take, which makes it unfair for those who
follow the rules or trying, which is to stay home, and only go for food
shopping, medication, and exercise.
The
government doesn’t say much either way if you help vulnerable people in their
homes, shopping etc needs to be addressed, etc, along the lines, of your career,
social worker, family member, parent, friend, etc.
In my case my mother lives aboard, my Aunty lives
an hour away from me and My Aunt’s friend cleans for me once a month.
Most employers don’t understand learning
disabilities. Not enough employers follow the discrimination act, they should.
Not all people with disabilities use computers,
even though I can.
The government is spending too much money on the
least important things. They are robbing the poor instead of the rich, this may not
be that is the case as much now but pretty was when I started this book in the
90s to early 2000s.
I used to be a Learning disability MP of Wolverhampton.
If people with disabilities, families, carers and etc are not happy with
anything or something. I don’t mind raising awareness of this. The government
needs to be reading this book and my blog.
There are too many mistakes some employers make. People
with disabilities etc who access services find it hard to focus on too much
jargon, which is hard to understand, confusing, and too much of a language
barrier. People who work in the learning disability etc field need to be learning
about easy reading, accessible information, sign language, brail, etc.
Like all people without disabilities etc, people
with Autism want to live equal lives with other people. We want to make the most
of life. Life lives like human beings in this society. People with Autism can
find change and route hard to cope with, yet some things come easy than others,
which can vary from one person to another. We still have a long way to go, let’s
give those help who need it now not in twenty to thirty years’ time, and let’s
empower independence for now and generations to come. Most things people need help and others don’t, every person can vary it’s down to you to find out. Just like other people most of us enjoy hobbies, interests, etc. We all have
different disabilities, difficulties, and abilities.
Autism is mostly a hidden disability, that most
people don’t understand. It’s unknown how many people are diagnosed with
Autism, which that research is down to you to find out. Most people find it
hard to explain themselves, meaning they are or maybe trying to tell people.
This can cause a lack of communication and understanding. Through whatever the
misunderstanding is or maybe it can leave the person whose facing, disability,
Autism, etc in the dark. This very often affects people’s lives meaning
different people in different ways. It can make them feel they haven’t got
choices and control over their own lives.
Society tends to say that people with disabilities
are poor because of us not being able to manage money which may be the case for most
of us but not all of us. In my view, this is very judgemental. For many of us, that’s but that’s due to not getting enough help and we don’t get the choice
and control. We need a balance between the two.
We don’t always get the right services we need. They
say that Wolverhampton has better Autistic adult services than children.
We don’t always get the right help with work,
benefits, home, etc, which may well improve a bit since I started writing this
blog and book.
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