Right. I am sick and fricken tired of service providers and - TopicsExpress

Right. I am sick and fricken tired of service providers and others appropriating the space that people with disability SHOULD own. It is about us, not you. You might think you are the shining lights in our lives, but we keep you in work. I am going to develop some hard and fast rules about who to take seriously and who not to take seriously. 1. If you do not have a board membership which is at least partially comprised of people with disability, and you purport to represent those people as their voice - lose ten points. 2. If you have not consulted or engaged with your membership for the last six months in any meaningful way, then lose ten points. 3. If you routinely talk about conversations, relationships and overarching frameworks, lose ten points. 4. If you dont have any friends with disability, including intellectual disability, then lose ten points. You only get forty points to start with. Fair call?