About to take off to one of the premier psychiatric hospital units in my city, to visit a colleague who recently succumbed to the pressures of a disability-serving organizational environment.
That was painful. And at this point (posting this several months later), I don't know what happened to my colleague. I do know that it was strongly indicated that the "disability serving organizational environment" we were both in at the time, turned out to be one that really wanted to serve itself, by dispensing of my colleague--or anyone else that got in the way of the comfort of the "executive staff" of that organization.
I hope: a) my colleague is alive and still remembering to be the advocate for disabled people she always had been, and b) that my theory, "There's justice in the Universe" proves to be true again here. The sickest thing about all of this was that the Executive Director of this organization we had the odd fate to share (being reunited in a common workplace after having met 20 years previously in another "common workplace"), twisted a verbal notice that this person was declaring herself disabled regarding work capacity, into a RESIGNATION NOTICE. Given that this is an amazing person who is severely cognitively disabled albeit extremely intelligent: I only pray that this organization experiences all the justice it is due, and that my friend gets all the benefit due her from that justice.
That was painful. And at this point (posting this several months later), I don't know what happened to my colleague. I do know that it was strongly indicated that the "disability serving organizational environment" we were both in at the time, turned out to be one that really wanted to serve itself, by dispensing of my colleague--or anyone else that got in the way of the comfort of the "executive staff" of that organization.
I hope: a) my colleague is alive and still remembering to be the advocate for disabled people she always had been, and b) that my theory, "There's justice in the Universe" proves to be true again here. The sickest thing about all of this was that the Executive Director of this organization we had the odd fate to share (being reunited in a common workplace after having met 20 years previously in another "common workplace"), twisted a verbal notice that this person was declaring herself disabled regarding work capacity, into a RESIGNATION NOTICE. Given that this is an amazing person who is severely cognitively disabled albeit extremely intelligent: I only pray that this organization experiences all the justice it is due, and that my friend gets all the benefit due her from that justice.
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