It,s 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.
Saturday, 23 September 2023
Interdiction to learning disability and mental health awareness
Interducing myself
as a person and writer.
Interducing the purpose of this writing.
The idea behind the story is to introduce
as much of life as person
past and present as I am as possible,
my learning disability,
mental illness and my career,
which is mostly based on my life experience.
Also, to try help, students, workers and
or more who involved in the
field and people who face disabilities,
mental illnesses and more.
I have written this piece of work for
those interested in the field of learning
disability, mental health and other
problems as well as for who face
them themselves, and people who them,
teach them support them care for them etc.
No one can be forced to be interested in
something if they are not but do get me
wrong no one can be liked from everyone,
I understand that but when it comes to
learning disability etc, there is a lot of
misunderstanding and unawareness.
I think learning disability, mental
health and all problems awareness
needs to be raised, meaning for example;
conditions, illnesses, diseases and more,
which should be raised in schools,
colleges, universities, workplaces and more.
or
It would interesting to what is like in
other countries as far.
https://www.open.ac.uk/health-and-social-care/research/shld/timeline-learning-disability-history
A lot of long stay hospitals,
resident homes etc closed
roughly from 2007 to 2010
in the UK. In past to other people,
people with disabilities seemed different to them.
They were labeled, treated like babies and
children even when they were adults.
People used words like mentally handicapped
instead of disabled, such other words as sub
normal, mental, backward, eternal,
a menace to society or and a burden to society.
Over centuries, years, decades etc,
there has never been a balance between
support and independence,
mostly it had been all or nothing.
Most people have been neglected or
support tends happen when it is too late
they do not need it or someone is around all the time but again I am not saying this is the case with everyone.
Attitudes have been getting
better in the last so many years
but we still have a long way to go.
People who are not disabled were
viewed as normal but what normal
at the end of the day?
Everyone is a human being.
https://langdondownmuseum.org.uk/the-history-of-learning-disability/social-history-of-learning-disability/
https://lx.iriss.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/NES_Unit3.pdf
People were in institutions had no or very little contact
with the outside world. This had a very big affect on
people’s lives. I guess a lot people would have
suffered with Anxiety and Depression.
People with disabilities were misunderstood
very much a lot for those who they are not as others thought they were in sane or mad.
Even today there is a lack of awareness from
society about disability, mental health and
other problems. Society did not have confidence
in people. We were treated unequally and we
felt as if we were not part of society.
Today society is starting to learn about
learning disability and mental health.
Most disabled people in those times
begged for food and money off the streets.
In Victorian times in the 1800s the 19th
century were thought about as cripple,
handicap, freaks, etc.
Living conditions were hard for everyone
in those times but disabled people struggled
to look after themselves where they
treated like babies and children or
neglected. Most disabled people
were in industrial ares, with say widows,
orphans, alcoholics.
Other people with disabilities were put in
poorhouses or almshouses.
In 19th century, the treatment for mental
health was cure, incerlating and shocking.
Some asylums were poor cared for in
institutions with a lack of compassion.
Disabled people were treated in the
abbey a type of church and hospitals,
they were made to say prayers and
other religious things.
people who faced Mania, dementia,
melancholy, relapsing mania, hysterical,
and idiocy, liege normally misunderstood,
seen etc as drunk in the eyes and mind of society.
In the middle age, it is believed that
mental illness was used in religion.
Negative attitudes were around the
18th century onwards in American,
leading sigma towards those with
mental illnesses.
Warehouses we’re responsible for disabled people too.
I guess the way society was back then
it would have caused those facing disabilities,
mental illness and other problems a lot of
misunderstandings with others. Where society
back then didn’t have confidence in those
who were slow to work, react, response, etc.
What type of disability depends on the cause,
not that anyone would wish it anymore
because disabilities affect lives but some cases
can be life rick, which could depend on disability,
what happened etc. Sorry there is no polite easy
way of saying this. For those of us who are lucky to live,
it is possible for us to achieve what
we are capable of what we are interested
in with the right support. https://www.mencap.org.uk/
A learning disability can affect the person coping with
everyday skills such as home skills, education, work,
social lives, relationships,friendships or and more
but they can get by with the right support say goes for goals they capable of or and what they enjoy etc.
According to Mencap there are 1.5 million
people in the UK who have learning disabilities
and how they affect people can vary from
person to person so except anything from
anybody when comes to learning disabilities etc.
‘However we are as human as anyone,
we do not expect to be treated any
different to other people but
we need the right support when we need it
and what need it for.
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