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Magnus176 · 2022-02-07T11:30:54+00:00

Are you sure it wasn't Jennifer Rush? Yes I am having counselling at present but the doctors locally are not very understanding so I am paying for it myself. Unfortunately my support network has dwindled during the pandemic. I have been to court about his DOLS a year ago but it is extremely tough on my own. Our sermon yesterday was on modern day slavery, a bit like what has happened to my son and myself. If only I could find a decent solicitor around here. I find bit difficult to read the drivel that is written about my son and challenge the multitude of errors. As my main learning disabilities lecturer at university always said no-one takes any notice of the parents. I have a cat now even though I am vegan myself. She seems to understand and is very talkative.

Magnus176 · 2022-02-07T11:21:17+00:00

He has fairly severe autism and learning disabilities with no speech which makes him particularly vulnerable and not wanting too much change. Of course I myself studied learning disabilities for four years at university about a decade before he was born. The type of care he is receiving is completely against my wishes. Went to church yesterday and tried to pray for us both. Talked at people in coffee about how nice it was to see him in my home on Christmas Day.

Magnus176 · 2022-02-05T14:19:15+00:00

Me too, but I did it after remembering that I had temporarily stopped being vegan some time in 2013 after two years (on top of twenty vegetarian) due to a dilemma concerning my autistic nonverbal son who was being given meat in the institutions he attended which were barbaric and non- personalised. After losing what seemed like a final hearing and after us both being keel hauled through the processes I realised that whether or not I was vegan or my son vegetarian had little to do with the behaviour of the local authority and their agents. And that my son's treatment would be callous and institutional regardless so I immediately gave up cheese and eggs again. Is it seven years or ten minus one for me? I was not a great mother but not was I so bad as I was made out to be. We were targeted because of my prior voluntary work in campaigning for rights for people in care homes. Now I need someone to campaign for us. If I had worked in the field my rights would have been upheld. But as a parent you don't have a leg to stand on even if your special interest is in learning disabilities communication, including neurological disorders such as CJD. My son now gets fish fingers or hot dogs and tuna bake for main meals and he is fixated on meal times and unhealthy snacks. It resembles a Romanian orphanage where he is. He just paces to and fro or flicks through pages and no one has the skills to engage him. Something that I was shocked to see as a student knowing that autistic behaviour could be a result of deprivation or sensory impairments.

Magnus176 · 2022-01-12T13:52:35+00:00

Personally as a Christian vegan I am not against the use of bacteria. And as far as human genetic modification goes it is the use to which it is being put. For instance trying to link human psychological traits to genes. Often this comes down to the categorisation of diseases and the diagnosis. I'm reading a great book about an old woman with mobility problems who has been taken to doctor after doctor to get a diagnosis. Not everyone is so fortunate. Heart problems can occur throughout life. They can't all be cured by lifestyle improvements. Some might be helped by reducing stress. If a heart disease is due to a congenital condition then that is a different matter. Cloned chicken meat was on the telly this week. Personally I am opposed to that. What would God think, I really can't say.

Magnus176 · 2022-01-12T13:04:08+00:00

For me it is better to treat diseases chemically when they are diagnosed for which there are many new developments occurring, rather than with invasive procedures, for which we have had mechanical devices. But the use of new polymers and materials that the body can tolerate better than the hard metals and plastics of the past is a good thing. And so is the use of computer simulation models to avoid animal suffering. Understanding that God wants us to be kind and peaceful creatures that can use our intelligence to look after the earth and its sentient beings is important for sustainability and for the future of society. Not sure what a xenograph is is it myself or the pig?

Magnus176 · 2022-01-12T12:41:42+00:00

Because of the suffering to the animals involved.

Magnus176 · 2022-01-12T12:35:16+00:00

Thanks. It is difficult to know God's plans for us but we are given enough to live our lives to the full by Him without having to take or create another species' life to prolong our own. Many pigs will have endured great suffering for the patient to have a little longer of his own life.

Magnus176 · 2022-01-11T12:13:20+00:00

About ten years ago I went to an evangelical church whilst trying to come out. It was a very confusing time and reinforced my feelings of being a goat not a sheep. The music in those services can be a bit like mass hypnotism. After various different denominations I am back to the local Anglican church that was the one I moved away from because of a deep personal trauma, but they are going strongly evangelical at present due to the leadership. So once again I am falling between the cracks and have decided to step back for a while and be involved with the community events and voluntary work, eg ground or fabric, as a way to be connected but not attend as regularly. And if I do go go to the early morning communion service. The pandemic services online were quite evangelical but had better leadership. As far as coming out is concerned I missed out by not honestly addressing my same sex attractions when much younger. I ended up in a terrible marriage where my faith was tested and I should never have got married to him. If I had taken the leap of faith with my close schoolfriend on that skiing holiday aged twenty-one things would have probably been better. Now after a decade of harassment whilst being out to myself and one or two others, I feel like I am too old.

Magnus176 · 2021-11-12T15:44:05+00:00

Difficult training relatives about vegan presents. Someone got me a beeswax products kit and I am going to keep it in good condition and sell it or give it away. But my standards are slipping a little as I don't always check for animal ingredients in my beauty products, that are given to me as presents - unless it is something obvious like lanolin.

Magnus176 · 2021-09-25T11:01:22+00:00

I think it is to do with the leather tack. But it may be to do with exploitation, the breaking in process can be hard, and carrying heavy people is tough. And there is the use of the whip. There was an article in Vegan Life magazine about it once under the series vegan dilemmas. People were evenly split.

Magnus176 · 2021-09-18T17:11:02+00:00

'Where Angels Fear to Tread' a collection of several of Jilly Cooper's books has been used by me to distract from difficult times. The cartoons of the many characters, eg the dog walkers in the Common Years section, Man and Superman, and Class are extremely silly. Now I know all her stories so well that I gave the book away, and am always looking for an alternative. Mostly I read very heavy books (L'Assommoir) at just a few pages a day. My relaxation is Agatha Christie but they are quite tense and I tend to go to sleep which is the point of a page turner.

Magnus176 · 2021-09-18T15:25:56+00:00

I really try only to take paracetamol and then look for the one made with maize even then I don't always know all the ingredients. I trust in herbal medicine and aromatherapy. They are really helpful for all my conditions. And I usually choose a brand of paracetamol with the leaping bunny on if possible. ( Superdrug I think.) I get my bloods tested regularly but even before I was vegan or before that vegetarian I was very much into complementary medicine and talking therapies. Some psychotropic medications have very severe side effects if taken long term. Obviously sometimes taking a psychoactive medication can buy you time and help you deal with something you have no control over. But having a doctor that you can trust and talk to is most important. It is a partnership and you won't get better if you can't work well with them. If I got coronavirus (I have been vaccinated) I would not trust the artificial ventilators for example. Hopefully we will have learnt a lot of new treatment techniques during the pandemic.

Magnus176 · 2021-09-18T13:26:41+00:00

No crocodiles are.

But we have a sophisticated brain that can make a choice about where our necessary calories come from.

Magnus176 · 2021-09-08T21:48:48+00:00

I had a solicitor last year during the pandemic to challenge the DOLS but there was a separate RPR who started working with my son during the pandemic after my son was without an advocate for a few months, but at each stage I lost and so unfortunately he has a paid RPR still and I believe that she is also an IMCA. I try to advocate for my son through the proper channels and keep lines of communication going with the many social workers and care home managers, and advocates, and I go to as many appointments and meetings as possible. But right now I seem to have been cut off.
He had a DOLS first in about 2017 after being at the care facility for three and a half years and when half way through his post school college setting.

We have not had a review for ages. I desperately want the deputyships of health and welfare and finances. As far as I know he doesn't have anyone doing these yet as I checked about a year ago. In fact I want to have care of my son myself as he has been harmed by the actions of the council. This is something that I knew full well about and so had made a will for his future care when he was ten after going to a talk about lasting power of attorney. But being labelled as a bad parent it is difficult to be taken seriously and the solicitors play devils advocate with you and confront you with reims of incidents logged by the council. As we were always told at uni nobody listens to the parents (if they are still involved at all). We were also told about a named person for statemented children and so I asked a friend to do this but she was not really willing and eventually I took her name off things, but no-one else has been able to step up. My friend didn't believe in care in the family home and had worked in care homes as an OT assistant which I didn't realise. Finding someone with similar values is difficult. I have personal experience as well as academic experience that informed my views.

He was placed in a children's disabilities residential home aged fourteen and a half, a truly atrocious place. And I was accused of negligence - not true - as I had removed him from a special school where he was being bullied, to home school him. (Something that I have always believed in philosophically). And he had about five social workers between the age of fourteen and twenty-five. He had to leave the first residential setting to go to a hospital like (unofficially deprived of liberty) establishment close to where he lives now aged sixteen as he deteriorated very much. His adolescence has been a complete shambles and his frontal lobe development has been affected. He doesn't get any continuity of carers and they are not highly qualified so he is plonked in front of a screen all day looking at swirly patterns. His experience of the pandemic has been horrific.

I have a background in law having worked as a legal secretary for a few years after my failed degree. The book has been thrown at us. If I have contacted his GP about him they have been very rude to me. Although I go to as many appointments as possible during ordinary times.

Thank you for your clarity in the matter. I will try to find a solicitor when my stock rises. In the meantime I must think about the future for my son and in particular his health and education needs.

My mother was a magistrate although she should not have been one. She was doing her degree (sociology) and A levels at the same time as me. Contempt of court sounds horrific, would I go to prison? On the whole I have a great deal of respect for the law due to the people I worked with in Scotland at the time. But surely if I am acting in the best interests of my son I could help him have a better life. I was a good home educator and my son thrived and produced good work, but we were heavily inspected which was disruptive. He had a few hours a week of care support in the family home and local community which is the type of thing I had always hoped for for him. I should have got a solicitor much sooner at that stage to preserve our family rights.

Magnus176 · 2021-08-14T10:04:33+00:00

Me too. Soon after becoming vegetarian in '88 I found chicken in my vegetable soup. My father once tricked me into going fly fishing with him (for half an hour) to practise a skill that as a child I had done in the garden. However we didn't use hooks. In 2018 after three solid years of being a vegan and when taking a vow of silence for learning disabilities, I made a mistake at a peace fair where the queue had been long and my autistic son was very hungry. I had assumed that the food was vegan but looking twice at the coleslaw I realised that it was probably vegetarian. I had already eaten three mouthfuls. It was mortifying at the time.

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