I just found something I wrote last year and thought it was worth posting. Warning: it's very dark! Nursing homes are hellish places....

Today my boss (Anna), her dad (Richard), and I were riding in the car. As Richard parked the car a disabled young man went by with his staff...

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...

Once a week I work a shift with a lady with dementia. Emily is very together and independent compared to other people I’ve worked with, but...

When I worked in an institution I was afraid that I secretly liked institutions. I was afraid that I liked the fact that I had a very spec...

"Would it kill staff to ever show the slightest bit of respect or compassion to their euphemisms?" This is the opening line to a...

To do good work in bad places has been an ambition of mine for years. I didn't even remember how much I had written about this until I h...

When someone kicks me and I’m annoyed in the moment and a minute later I realize that I would want ANY DISABLED PERSON I LOVE to kick so...

is something that might someday appear in all its parts and might not. Right now I'm primarily interested in writing about staff infecti...

A lot of staff people talk about restraints like they are not the greatest thing, but it seems like they don't understand what is wrong ...

    Sorry to just write about my job. But I have to admit I don’t have time to think about being disabled, but I am the enemy and I guess wr...

This is a little boring but it does remind me of the overused simile where you feel like you are plunged into ice water. I was at work aroun...

Say it with me, I work in a nursing home. And while I don't consider nursing homes for old people to be the same as institutions for you...

This is just something I've noticed in a few environments. I work in a nursing home right now but I think it also applies to staff who w...

I am working on a post about how much I hate this (not this particular post, but the whole discussion), but I got sidetracked by thinking a...

disabled staff person stuff is really weird because I barely had a staff person. I've had doctors and I guess therapists in the resource...

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 ...

My dad told me that most parents wouldn't understand my "visceral reaction" when I see indistinguishability held up as an idea...

I'm sorry to mix metaphors because I often compare zombies to people like me (unusual gait, does the same things a lot, often judged to ...

My first writing about disability was about an ABA school that I interned at when I was 20, which was a very ableist and passing-obsessed en...