warning for dehumanization At camp I made a friend named Zach. His family was friends with the assistant director, so he was hired in a p...

Every few days I think about camp and it starts taking my head apart. Not because of the stuff relating to ableism and me being disabled, bu...

Dear L, I need to tell you something. I never completed the staff review form this summer because I was afraid that it would be obvious who ...

So about advocacy vs. self-advocacy. I don't really like the term self-advocacy. I think in one of my blogger profiles I have "not ...

I can't wait till I have a chance to synthesize my two email addresses so I don't have to go to as much effort to post here. I can n...

I just found this (Let Me Be Played) and I really needed to read it. It's weird to realize I'd gone through all this before. The ...

So I’m working at the summer camp I worked at last year, which is a sleepaway camp for teenagers and adults with developmental disabilities,...

I think that expectations for staff should be based in service not control. Which is to say you should try to give someone what they want n...

So one session at camp, two of my campers were named Mark* and David. They were both men in their forties who had Down Syndrome and had live...

I put this on my tumblr and it's my facebook default, but I just want everyone to see the best picture in the world (taken by Janet'...

(also I'm up to my neck in spam comments, can anybody help me?) On the last night of this session, I was walking back from the last acti...