Part of my Existential Crisis series.

Sometimes, with advocacy it’s really hard to get the point across to people who you might be applying for funding or navigating the system to get the care/help you need to survive.

Funding, whether it’s DSP or NDIS the people who make the decisions about if you even qualify or not, don’t have the same lived experience that you do? it’s helpful to 

1. Do I hit them with all the information so at least maybe something hits? or

2. Cut things back to the basics.

What!? You didn’t expect I had the answer to this did you? I live in this space every day of this TMI (too much information) territory, or do I give people as little as possible?

It never ends.

How much do I need to tell people to get from them what I need, for them to do their job properly, for me to do or achieve what I need to do to get through the day/week, etc. Just so I can manage to get to the next day.

It’s frustrating to think I’m not trying to do anything super amazing in life; go on holidays, have children, look after children, have a dinner party. I don’t know. what is considered normal. I just want to be able to do tomorrow, well todays been a lazy day so I should hope tomorrow I smash the shit out of the day.

And my goal is to at least be able to do that.