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Living w Disability
🔹I don’t know what you’re going through
🔹Is every day a struggle?
🔹Greg suffers #DownSyndrome, Alz Dz, Depression, Catatonia
🔹 Yet today he said, “Sunday’s donut day, but let’s have ‘chockle’ anyway & I’ll be ok.”
Be inspired‼️
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#Recovery
🔹I don’t know what you’re going through
🔹Is every day a struggle?
🔹Greg suffers #DownSyndrome, Alz Dz, Depression, Catatonia
🔹 Yet today he said, “Sunday’s donut day, but let’s have ‘chockle’ anyway & I’ll be ok.”
Be inspired‼️
(pic w perm)
#Recovery
Rules of Engagement #WorldAutismAwarenessDay 1) foster #AutisticAcceptance 2) Believe us when we say, Puzzle Pieces DO NOT help promote #AutisticAcceptance (Dig Deeper into the very problematic history of Autism organizations to understand why)
3) Avoid using toys or childhood images to represent #Autism. #Autistics are #Autistic and will remain as such. We are #DifferentNotLess. When you use toys to represent us, it infantilizes our authentic Ways of Being. Use Rainbow Infinity or Gold Infinity symbols instead
4) Always take an #Intersectional approach to understanding #AutisticTruths. We are from all faiths, cultures, gender identities and more, but our experiences are dramatically impacted by how the world sees our diverse layers of identity and whether we are multiply marginalized
1/🧵 Beauty in the Now…
While normally Greg doesn’t #worry, in this case, he succumbed to fear of change.
He was screaming and Crying in Fear - see tweet below.
How did he get through it?
What did he teach me?
#NothingDownAboutIt #DownRightPerfect #UpSyndrome #Tribe321
While normally Greg doesn’t #worry, in this case, he succumbed to fear of change.
He was screaming and Crying in Fear - see tweet below.
How did he get through it?
What did he teach me?
#NothingDownAboutIt #DownRightPerfect #UpSyndrome #Tribe321
2/ Greg held his head in his hands and trembled with worry.
We were disrupting his usual Saturday of watching “I Love Lucy.”
Think Rain Man type of dependence on routine &
that’s Greg.
So when Kim and I took him to the mountains, it totally messed him up.
What happened?
#T21
We were disrupting his usual Saturday of watching “I Love Lucy.”
Think Rain Man type of dependence on routine &
that’s Greg.
So when Kim and I took him to the mountains, it totally messed him up.
What happened?
#T21
3/ At first Greg got angry with us for taking him on this trip.
I mean, REALLY angry.
And we know that #ANGER is just one letter away from #DANGER.
He was heading in a dangerous path of rejecting something that could be healing & good in his life.
#TheLuckyFew #FindYourTribe
I mean, REALLY angry.
And we know that #ANGER is just one letter away from #DANGER.
He was heading in a dangerous path of rejecting something that could be healing & good in his life.
#TheLuckyFew #FindYourTribe
@MichaWassmann @B_for_backup @sabineirl Sehr höflich und zurückhaltend ausgedrückt, hat mir aber ein bisschen das Geschmäckle von false balance (Sie meinen es sicherlich nicht so…) Wenn die eine Partei behauptet die Erde sei flach und die andere, sie seie rund, dann ist das nicht „Ausdruck einer unterschiedlichen..1/2
@MichaWassmann @B_for_backup @sabineirl Vorstellung“sondern schlicht und ergreifend FALSCH! Das biologische Geschlecht (Sexus) kann niemand wechseln,nur das Erscheinungsbild kann an die ggf.abweichende Eigenwahrnehmung (Gender) angepasst werden (more or lees) um die gewünschte Fremdwahrnehmung (wieder more or less) 2/3
@MichaWassmann @B_for_backup @sabineirl Edit: zu erzielen. All das ist zB. mit parallelen „Dritten / Unisex“ Räumen möglich, und es bedarf weder der Leugnung der Biologie, noch der von Frauenrechten. It’s about #DifferentNotLess
1/🧵 Are you happy?
My brother w #DownSyndrome is teaching me tons of life lessons.
In medicine & in life, I make big decisions based on guesstimates of other’s Quality of Life #QOL.
I often GET IT WRONG!
What do adults w #disability teach me about TRUTH?
Can I learn?
My brother w #DownSyndrome is teaching me tons of life lessons.
In medicine & in life, I make big decisions based on guesstimates of other’s Quality of Life #QOL.
I often GET IT WRONG!
What do adults w #disability teach me about TRUTH?
Can I learn?
2/🎥 How do we “calculate” someone’s #QOL?
#Confession: I get it all wrong when I impose MY judgment onto THEIR life.
Greg, my 57 y/o brother-in-law with Down Syndrome, has a better QOL than I do.
Why?
Digest this…read on…
#DownSyndromeLove
#Confession: I get it all wrong when I impose MY judgment onto THEIR life.
Greg, my 57 y/o brother-in-law with Down Syndrome, has a better QOL than I do.
Why?
Digest this…read on…
#DownSyndromeLove
3/ My working definition of QOL is “the ability to give & receive love.”
REREAD THAT👆
Greg understands the Law of the Gift: Treasures GROW when we give them away.
It’s the opposite of hoarding.
Yet, giving ourselves to others can be SCARY. Greg ponders deeply these emotions.
REREAD THAT👆
Greg understands the Law of the Gift: Treasures GROW when we give them away.
It’s the opposite of hoarding.
Yet, giving ourselves to others can be SCARY. Greg ponders deeply these emotions.
