The ongoing saga of advocacy running amok
2008 – Final weeks
Nearly a dozen weeks into the New Year, things were going to hell and a handbasket, but the teachers didn’t understand anxiety and behavior issues because they were not a “therapeutic program”. For them to think they need to be therapists or emotional councilors should look at themselves for allowing chaos at all costs as the only way to grow. Between Mass. February Vacation to March 12th, was nearly 3 weeks away; staff just wrote it off as another business day in the office.
Without repeating too much of that history, the involvement of the “transition coordinator” was literally my responsibility playing email and phone tag and trying to get someone to show up on a January day in 2008, no less than 2 months to my graduation. Is this what “self advocacy” really means?
Ironically other threats such as “we won’t be here after your 21st birthday” was also repeated. I say “threats”, because the manager type was drilling it down to cause panic to learn to cope. Some people I have spoken to have rightfully said that at this point family members should be supporting in that transition. Well unfortunately, my family was dwindling and my cousins that were the closest were not available, as a result just feeling so alone to begin with.