Living My Own Life: Adults with Disabilities (2000) 

The ones who have friends are real lucky

Very sad her mother didn't want her, people with Williams syndrome are very social, great that you gave her a good life her last years evenifI can imagineit beinga struggle. I wonder if today these people in this video even would have got assistents and then maybe tgey would have been forced to live in a way they don't want to and maybe not able to work too.

So sorry for your lost

I know this is an older comment but there's so much disdain for the parents in this comment. As a parent of an adult child with disabilities (and two older normally developed adult children), I have been a caregiver for 30 years. To put that into perspective, I'm 50, so that's more than half of my own life. I can totally see coming to this point of burnout. I have struggled and my child hasn't had services for 7 months now because there are staffing shortages everywhere. There were no services during the time of the pandemic when schools were shut down. Maybe have more compassion for the parents who raise a person with disabilities.

Gayle had a lovely smile. I'm sure there was a special place in heaven for her.

@@ArgggggggggMy issue isn't with you. Thankfully you're doing the right thing despite the hardship placed on you. Just like in marriage. Until death do us part. My family of origin abandoned me as a person with 4 learning disabilities & a developmental disability. My wife's family abandoned all 4 daughters when they reached the age of maturity. My wife was pushed out of the nest at age 16 when she left to go away to college. Their daughter Gayle was pushed out after they left to move 3000 miles away to live in a group home. I don't care how old you are chronologically. It's that an adult with Williams never fully matures & stays a child forever. Her parents knew what they were doing & did it anyway. They left their developmentally disabilled daughter to live on her own without supports. After 3 suicide attempts & numerous hospitalizations. She came to live with us when no one else cared? Think of that for a moment...a person with a developmental disability was caring for another developmentally disabiled person not from their blood line. All without pay or other compensation. Provided a loving home despite the daily struggles that only you would understand. For twelve years & despite that was able to give back more than the state of Connecticut was willing to give. We never had a day off for twelve years. Then Covid hit & we are Covid cautious. I almost died from it. Thankfully Gayle was spared the worst of Covid. She passed the year after it hit.

Hope everything works out for you guys

God Bless you and your Granddaughter 🙏✝️😇💜

Thieving? She's a thief?

@@armjustarm she means thriving. dont be mean

Need to insert the "R"

Me too. Thank goodness they all talk.

sorry to be offtopic but does anybody know of a way to log back into an instagram account..? I somehow forgot my login password. I love any tricks you can give me

What is CP?

@@Kenbo53cerebral palsy

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Most doctors overmedicate. In the US, we tend to think there’s a pill for everything, even for the normal problems encountered because of our common humanity. If that were true, we’d empty the hospitals, nursing homes, jails, no more divorces, no more wars. Just give Putin and Zelensky a peace pill every morning and evening. Sweet days, restful nights. Seriously, my nephew with ADHD, ODD, on the autistic spectrum, depression, anxiety, you name the condition. Every day he took up to 36 pills at age 13, got expelled from three schools, had fits of rage in which he was violent. He punched and kicked holes in the walls, destroyed furniture, tore doors off of walls and cabinets, vandalized property, and finally, after various programs and group homes, about every kind of therapy, he got sent up to juvy for assaulting his mother and a teacher. That he added daily vaping of cannabis to his routine didn’t help, although he thought so. He got 2 1/2 years. Along came Covid and they sent away everyone who could possibly go home. And the caretakers were on their own, no support other than 15 minutes on Zoom per week. He was able to recognize the warning signs and to remove himself from volatile situations. He also started to apologize if he did fly into a rage. He started working, secretly, on his GED and when schools opened up, he checked them out with his mother. The three schools he got kicked out of refused to take him back. His mother found a small private boys’ middle and high school. He visited for two days and was hooked. He’ll graduate in June and plans to stay for one, maybe two years of college/seminary. And btw, the only meds he takes are for his asthma when it flares up. Sure, he still has a temper and can be morose at times, but he has learned to use socially acceptable outlets to vent; physical work outdoors, playing the saxophone, singing as loud as he wants, in the woods! Oh, and best of all, he’s looking forward to making his bar mitzvah in July! He’ll turn 18, but better late than never! When he as very young, he was religious, loved to go with his grandpa to schul, but he fell away and fell apart starting at age 10, Grandpa passed and the next year, his parents divorced, not amicably. His father stopped coming around and quit paying child support. My sister went back to work full-time rather than spend all the time and money to get his father extradited to the U.S. We can’t help but wonder if things would have better had he never taken a single psychiatric med. No, matter, my real nephew is back.

@@mariekatherine5238 well bless your nephew broken now doesnt mean broken forever the system will never acknowledge that(unfortunately) most on the spectrum people tend to age out of their symptoms or quirks

rayford died in february 2009

i dont know why youtube deleted my comment other than they are assholes but like i said before rayford is deceased

rayford died in february 2009

@@roncon1819 awwww man. That's so sad. Is his wife still alive??

They are adults they hire their own staff they tell their staff what they canning can’t do because the staff are coming into their home they’re living their life just the way anyone else would leave there’s and that’s important

Also the other thing I would say is a heart problem is a medical condition not a disability

Things would be put in place for you, in case anything happened, youd perhaps be given one of those "life lines" where you push a button that you keep round your neck, to get emergency help. Its still doable

People and their choices are the drive what happens ! Not the administrator

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