The gentrification of disablity a response to the drive program.

This is a really interesting thing to discuss and it goes back to the core of why I started the blog and the YouTube and this is due to assumptions of disability, So this person is talking about the “Gentrification” of disability, and that the NDIS has allowed the medicalization of disability and the normalization of disabled behaviours, So firstly I would like to ask this person what does he believe is “disabled behaviours” are they autistic trait behaviours, is it impulsivity due to unmedicated ADHD, is it have a support worker present at Uni or TAFE, what is disability behaviours vs socially unacceptable behaviour, and socially unacceptable behaviour is subjective.

https://www.2gb.com/australia-is-seeing-a-gentrification-of-people-with-disabilities/

Gentrification and Normalization of disability is not bad thing, I do understand what this person is saying but does he understand the impact of what he is saying I don’t think that he does that this is something that needs to be addressed to be able to understand what he is saying he is at his core message is saying that being disabled is bad and not something that should be normalized, that this normalization is something dangerous as it teaches people that some people are different and some people do need extra help.

I think he needs to be educated about the reality of living with a disability of, having to watch every cent you spend, having others decide what you do and when having other people control your money and in the case of “higher functioning” people having them being able to access the support they need to be able to hold a job, and let’s not forget that how many people who where on carers payments have been able to train as support workers and be able to access paid support to be able for them to be able to work.

I would also ask what qualifies someone to an NDIS package and one has to fight to be able to get a package we see that this is something is that people need help with instead of criticism of disability and we see that people need to be able to understand that this is something that needs to be addressed, and we see that people don’t understand disability.

It is strange that medical professionals are seeing a “medicalization” of disability well it’s the NDIS that is driving this due to the fact that people need to be able to access medical professionals to get the help that they need and this is something driven home by the NDIS that if they don’t have the label they can’t fund it and I can’t believe that we are still having this conversation around disability and our place in society. We have been othered for far to long and we see that people need to be aware of this and aware that people need to accept that disability is normal and conversations like this need to be stopped we have fought to hard to be accepted and to have our rights accepted and to be able to live the way that we want to be accepted so why are medical professional’s gatekeeping disability are they afraid that we would be able to challenge them and the status quo to be able to seek out second or even third options instead of accepting they are right about everything?

I do agree with him about making people with disability accountable for their actions and not having it as a soft term that we need to tip-toe around but why are we still tip-toeing around disability and the fact that we are seeing wasted money and this money isn’t wasted by the clients it is wasted by the providers are able to provide a service to others.

They are saying that there is a frame work of disability but there is a fame work for disability and this is where the NDIS is based on and we see that people need to be able to accept the framework of disability and I see that we have fought to hard, to be able to go back to stigma and the people who have a disability that we see that it is charity was the only way to help and what they are saying that people need to take accountability for there actions well without the NDIS I wouldn’t have a roof over my head, and I am working towards having my own business. I agree that there are some people who don’t need it but have these people ever tried to access the NDIS they make it so hard to access and it’s the providers that are essentially making things go up and we need to be very aware that disability is something that could happen to anyone at any time and I have worked and would love to be able to work again and the reason we aren’t having the difficult conversations is because the providers are dominating the conversations. Are they listening to the disability advocacy networks and the clients themselves as the question remains where do we go if the NDIS was to be broken down? This is the issue and there is no easy fix but it’s a question we need to ask what help does one get if they have a disability and there is a push towards medicalization due to the NDIA it’s self needing a label to even attempt to be able to help someone. I can’t believe that we are still having this conversation how many supported workplaces have opened up and we still lag behind the rest of the world with disability rights as well. It’s almost as if they are threatened by the fact that we have a level playing field.