Friday, August 30, 2013

My Interview with Bob

I probably asked him questions that nobody ever asked him. I guess when he was going to school his teachers encouraged him to pursue art. He told us all about the movie he's making now, he sent it to an art festival in Sebastopol.  I think he's a good artist I watched him do a couple of the things he gets paid for.  He's self taught, he taught himself how to draw and to paint. It took him two years to do the movie "Mysterious Place" that's at the Sonoma County museum right now.  It's on the 3rd story till the end of Sept if anyone's interested. 

Trying to get out of the group home

Because of what happened 7 years ago, I got a piece of hamburger stuck in my lung instead of going into my stomach.  So the way we had to get it out was to have surgery and they also put the J-tube in at the same time. Because I had aspiration pneumonia I had no choice in the matter they only gave me 15 minutes to decide about the operation or they said I would die.  So I ended up in a group home which I do not like. I've been in a group home ever since. They restrict me from living my life.  For instance let's say I met a girl I would not be able to have a full relationship if you know what I mean. 

I liked it very much because I pick to when I went out and what buses I took I was much more independent I went to the grocery store every weekend and I got to choose what to do and I had a couple small parties form my church. and I was able to drink alcohol which I can't do with this stupid tube.  I got involved with a mens gay group until I got sick and I enjoyed that because they were men I could talk to about different things like the bible and stuff.

They made lots of promisses to me when I moved into the group home but they never followed through.  Like that I could go out as much as I wanted, then they told me they didn't have proper staff.  The only reason I'm still at bi is I refused to go to their day program. It consists of taking labels off cans and bundling newspapers no wonder my friend "L" goes crazy there.

Monday, August 12, 2013

I've been reading a story about a young woman with downs syndrome named Jenny Hatch and her mother wanted her to live in a group home but she wanted to live in the community with her friends.  It took a year for her to win her battle in court. In the group home they took away her cell phone, her computer and they would not let her use the house phone. She was not allowed to leave the house, she was not allowed to see her friends at the thrift store where she used to work. She only got to see them once, after the visit the group home said she had behaviors and she couldn't have any visitors after that.. This could be me if this was California, but I do get to use the phone, I do get to go to work every day, but for the lack of freedom it's just like me.