i'm that sick tired where your eyes hurt and are watery but you have to breath thru your mouth so you can't fall asleep. i keep yawning to i guess i'll go to sleep soon.
I take A to special olympics basketball on Tuesdays at rec center in a suburb of Denver. Now I understand that there are some mentally "special" people that come there but A is not one of them! First thing that pissed me off was some old lady at the front desk yelled at her to slow down. She was going about as fast in wheelchair what I would consider a fast walk. also, in the year i've worked with her i've never seen her hit someone in her wheelchair. then the lady had the nerve to tell me that she needs to slow down like A didn't just hear her and like i'm her mom and A was a kid! wtf After they were done for the night one of the "coaches" told me A should probably stay in the bball court. i told her that i wasn't her "keeper or boss" and if she had a problem she needed to talk to A about it because she understands. if you see a non verbal person that uses augmentative communication devices or sign do you automatically think they're stupid or something?! A came out once to use the bathroom and have me get her a pen and paper so the coaches would write down their names for her. Maybe if they stopped treating her like a 5 year old she's be more inclined to do what they ask. She's not insubbordinate. she just doesn't like being talked down too and needs redirection when she gets distracted. This is why there are so many coaches. hopefully it'll get better the longer we go. last week was the first time we went. i went and sat in the common area with the tv and books as A requested. it's part of her claiming her independence albeit only for an hour and half. well they don't want her to have her pathfinder on the court and that's how she mainly communicates other than a few signs. she had to go to the bathroom and none of the coaches understood the sign for toilet. she was so upset and annoyed they wouldn't let her go out to have me help her to the bathroom she almost didn't want to go back. enough ranting
sleeeeeep
ps i forgot to pick up harry potter. :(
