https://incharge.net.au/reflecting-on-what-matters-in-self-direction/ Developing the capacity of people with disability for self direction Wed, 26 Jun 2019 02:54:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 https://incharge.net.au/reflecting-on-what-matters-in-self-direction/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:40:21 +0000 http://www.ic.caleylab.com.au/?p=656#comment-31 Libby, Cath and Linda,
Thankyou for sharing your experience through exploring possibilities.
Your observations of people giving over their power to act on situations they are unhappy with and ‘waiting, dwelling’ whilst someone else has the power to make change and may not, really struck me.
I was speaking with a parent of one of our long-term resident’s and day programs participant; we had never met previously and it was a informal gathering. This gentleman shared with me for just over 1 hour, decades of pain and frustration at what can only be described as being in a ‘passive’ role with his wife on behalf of their son. It was heartbreaking to not only feel the disappointment and pain coming out in his every expression but he kept apologising to me and expecting I thought he was somehow a person whom I would not want to listen to. To the contrary, I Assured him that not only was everything he was sharing valid and realistic but it was not my place to judge, he was passionate about his son!
This family have been living a service-run existence; life spectators…

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