Safe and sound
First, I want to be really clear:
I love, love love my new accessible apartment as I’ve said. I would never do anything to diss the place. It’s great.
I completely understand why there are security cameras in a building like this: The primary and obvious reason for it is the safety of persons with disabilities and their aides…And there are security cameras at all outside entrances for the same reason. Whether we like it or not PWD’s are viewed by predators and any other category of Bad People as easier prey than the able-bodied, so I do agree that these are good things. Keep them here. I feel safer with them than without them.
I am troubled though, because in the wider world during the last ten years it has been made clearer than ever that “any” use of those cameras or footage from them that the government believes to be necessary…they’ll get used for.
In addition, my particular apartment’s placement leaves me open for extra viewing because the security camera for one of the front doors is a 360 degree thing as they all are and coincidentally can see straight into my desk when the curtains aren’t at least partially pulled…so, the curtains are now always partially pulled when I’m on the computer…I’m sorry, but nobody gets to mind my business that easily.
And all my curtain pulling could be useless because the safety thing might actually extend inside…and there could be one in here too…
And on the lighter side, once I realized there were “eyes in the sky” in the hallways, I thought “oops, better not just have socks on my feet when I roll for the mail, the trash, the laundry room”…have to have shoes on in order to meet the place’s guidelines.
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Resurrection Day/ A Room of One’s Own (Using for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2011)
This is so surreal.
From being subject to a roommate or stranger to help me…
I’ve arrived at my accessible apartment, in my new state (a return to Ohio where I was born and raised), begun the explosive process of moving in (by explosive I mean boxes exploding everywhere)…charging up my power chair…so I can roll for three minutes and head to the store…or to the bank…or another twenty minutes and arrive at church, or the drugstore… And realizing I can now do the personal care stuff on my own…and cook, and hang outside (no elevators ) I have no pics yet, but will post some in the next few days…
I’m on assistive tech joy overload. (an unassisted shower is a marvelous thing)
From a year’s worth of crazy all the way to this?
I’m really stunned by having something genuinely good happen. It’s been awhile.
And the house rules here are not:
My former roommate’s, or my parent’s (I don’t have to live with what someone else cooks or buys)
They are my own.
I was an only child, but also am high verbal, and really social. So my most ‘comfortable’ head space is: living in my own place, alone, with a lot of friends and neighbors nearby…I did the marriage thing and the roommate thing fairly well, but all that was a learned behavior as an adult.
This is the setup I’m used to.
I have some anxiety now that I wrestle with, so of course living alone will be tougher…
the downside…The lack of frequent public transportation in this part of the state is unacceptable…so, my first adventure, after settling in, is finding out how an ordinary citizen can get a precis of the Lorain and Cuyahoga county budgets, and do some line item checking on my own….
“So, you say there’s no money to run a connector from the end of the LC transit system to Walker and Bradley, the last corner where the RTA (Cuyahoga county) route 55 ends? Or no money for each transit authority to jointly fund an extension of the 55 route past our complex and a nearby senior center twice a week?
I know, everyone is broke. Hell, *I’m * broke.
But give me the data, some time, and a pencil.
I’ll find the money *for* you, budgetmeisters.
I thought this was most appropriate for BADD this year…so it kinda breaks the rules…but go over to goldfish’s blog and read the stuff that was original to the day and actually linked…, as usual it’s amazing…
Home is where…
You have to obtain liability insurance against other residents/staff
You have to be “assisted” whether you like it or not.
And the common area and dining room at your facility state that you are unwelcome…
According to a recently settled lawsuit...those in independent living were also pressured to move to assisted living…
I’m glad to see this settled in these communities, but how much “teeth” will the provisions of the settlement actually have…
Some linkage for a Sunday…
Wants to highlight where the ADA is now…
I think it’s significant that disabled veterans are part of this event….
The organizers want to educate the country that the ADA applies to more than access and physical impairment…
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From the owner of the site Barrier Free Travel…After July, if someone tells Europeans with impairments that they cannot board a plane a fine might be levied
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In the wrestling to renew No Child Left Behind, would the changes make education of students with disabilities tougher or simpler?
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The Justice for All Listserv sent out a really troubling article, about monies that could have helped house persons with disabilities being sent back to Hud….
and in one city, what will happen to homeless people with disabilities and the general fund when those funds go away…..