re: #38 windsagio

With all due respect, his parents can keep him, and he can still have a fulfilling and wonderful life.

The idea that you have to put a disabled person into a residential facility is deeply unfair to the individuals. You’re basicly saying then ‘they can’t do it on their own, and their parents can’t deal with the challenges involved’.

Sometimes that is true, absolutely, and thats why group homes exist.

I work in group homes, and I have a brother whose disabled. As long as my sister and I are capable of providing for his care, he will never be in a group home. We can do better for him than that.

No, you’ve misunderstood me.

My concern wasn’t that he was at home and not a residential facility.

My concern was that they didn’t allow him to get any sort of schooling or training whatsoever.

There are jobs mentally handicapped individuals can do and from what I’ve seen of those doing the jobs, it’s wonderful for them to have that sense of earning their own money, interacting with other people.

They’ve kept this young man from doing that, to his detriment, IMO.