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Hi, my name is Misswillow1!

Misswillow1

Hi all, nice to meet you all! I’m a firm believer in the Social Model, as it represents my type of personal style 😇. I believe in rocking my individuality 😇. I’m a little shy presently. So the warmer your greetings, the sooner I’ll settle in gang 😉😇. Thanks for reading.

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Tori_Scope

Welcome to the community @Misswillow23

It's great to have you with us! Thank you for joining.

It's good to hear that you're a supporter of the social model of disability, as we use that here at Scope, too, as I'm sure you're aware. When did you come across the social model?

Don't worry about being shy at all. We're a friendly bunch, and you're welcome to get involved at your own pace.

Two good places to start are the categories page, which shows you the kinds of topics we discuss here, and the list of the most recent discussions. If you need any help navigating the community, please just give us a shout.

SueHeath

Morning @Misswillow23 welcome to our great group, no need to be shy here, join in when your ready.

Misswillow1

Tori_Scope said:

Welcome to the community @Misswillow23 It's great to have you with us! Thank you for joining.

It's good to hear that you're a supporter of the social model of disability, as we use that here at Scope, too, as I'm sure you're aware. When did you come across the social model?

Don't worry about being shy at all. We're a friendly bunch, and you're welcome to get involved at your own pace.

Two good places to start are the categories page, which shows you the kinds of topics we discuss here, and the list of the most recent discussions. If you need any help navigating the community, please just give us a shout.

Thank you, I have found your comment the most insightful and reassuring. Not to embarrass you or anything 🤣😉. I won’t reply to every user, I’ll just use this forum as I use FB 😇. I learnt about the Social Model a few years ago. A friend of mine had left a youth group I’d been a client of, and i complained to her about her successor’s approach with me. My friend sympathised and wrote, “yeah that’s not verry Social Model”. I had no idea what my friend was on about, untill I did some research, and with relief thought, “thank you Beth for understanding mate! You’re awesome mate! 😁😁😂😂😌”. Going forwards in my life, I’ll be strutting my stuff via the social model at uni from September! I can’t wait!!! 😄😄😄😁😁😁😁. My uni encourage individuality best of all 😇😂😁😌

Ross_Alumni

Welcome to the community @Misswillow1, thank you for telling us the sotry about how you came across the social model, it really seems to have resonated with you which is great.

You must be excited about going to uni, what will you be studying?

Misswillow1

Ross_Scope said:

Welcome to the community @Misswillow1, thank you for telling us the sotry about how you came across the social model, it really seems to have resonated with you which is great.

You must be excited about going to uni, what will you be studying?

Yes it has thank you 😌☮️🧐😁😁. I’d been around people who’d used the medical model on me since after reception, no kidding, and intuitively I always felt something was off. Like everyone was trying too hard to encourage me to live my life normally. I remember feeling frightened, traumatised or else too intimidated to woman up 😢. But since researching the Social Model and finding places to help me action it, I’ve felt really empowered. Like I’ve reconnected to my soul 😁😂😊😇. Nowadays, I can feel the difference in my heart proffessionally (I still have some work to do with family, to break them out of their slight overprotective shell), but yeah proffessionally, I feel a lot lighter! Everyone are more authentic and don’t try to suppress my blindness. Through actioning the social model, they acknowledge my individual needs and sensitively do their best to meet them. Also, they love me firing up whenever I’m seriously cross about something and challenge the status quo! Well a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do! 😁😁😁😁😁😁.

Well my goal is to become a Drama Therapist for the NHS, as I believe I can achieve anything I’m interested in with or without approval, (I know the people who truly value me will support me through thick or thin 😍😇😂), so I’ll be studying VA Hons Entertainment and Performance! 😄. It introduces students to different type of theatre depending what they want to pursue. Then after my undergrad degree, I’ll have 2 years post-grad study in a specialist Drama Therapy degree or movement based course. After my studies (and my second graduation of course 🤣😁😁😄), I’ll register with the Health Proffessions council before applying for initial part time work. I want to ease myself in gently. I’m not looking forward to the work, but I am looking forward to helping my clients restore their self-belief. 😇🧐😂😂. My aim is to make a difference in my own small way, by looking out for my gang. 🧐☮️☮️

Ross_Alumni

That sounds lovely @Misswillow1, you seem to have a really positive attitude and have really thought through what you want to do. I wish you the very best with it, you'll have to keep us updated on how you're getting on

Misswillow1

Ross_Scope said:

That sounds lovely @Misswillow1, you seem to have a really positive attitude and have really thought through what you want to do. I wish you the very best with it, you'll have to keep us updated on how you're getting on

Thank you, it’s taken a lot of graft to get to where I am now, it’s been particularly challenging because I’m choosing to remAain a singleton for the remainder of my current lifetime, so I’m especiAally proud of myself presently for continuing to persevere and self-motivate 😇. It means that the more I achieve here on Earth, the more I can dazzle young men romantically in Heaven, particularly my first love M from my current lifetime, whom I can’t be with here due to my cultural external barriers, and also my decision to work hard alone. So I intend to reconcile with him in God’s domain at some point and dazzle him with all the positives from here. I can just imAagine the beam on M’s face 😇😇😇😇😂😂.

Thank you, I shal indeed keep you all posted on my success! What I love about Drama Therapy is you’re challenged to use your extra sensory perception to help clients! 😁😁😉😉😂😂.

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Misswillow1
It's fantastic to see you join the Scope Online community. I would also like welcome you to the Scope Online community

It's wonderful you have a positive attitude to anything you come up against in against your life you willing to never give up till you succeed in achieving your goals in life

Sue_Alumni

My goodness @Misswillow1that all sounds amazing. I'm so pleased you've decided to join our online community - you're inspirational !

Misswillow1

Hi all. I'm beaming from ear to ear after reading all your awesome responses. Neat! Thank you! I aim to dazzle, if I do say so myself! LOL. Yeah, i'm dead into poise and elegance and balance, so hence my self-assurance. That and well spiritually in any lifetime here on Earth, you need a thick skin to get through it meaningfully... I think it's better to swim gracefully in whatever style resonates with one individually, than follow the status quo 24/7 and sink. That's my opinion anyway. So for me, positivity and general relaxed approaches help me glide through, like a sense of lighthearted humour, following my intuition (you know trusting that all important sixth sense) and as i've said, grafting away. A friend of mine once said, "during tough times, the biggest supporter you can have is yourself.". Mmmhmm! Right on... Anyway, just to give you all a quick update in the present, due to the global economy crisis, i'm having to alter my uni plans. I'm still grieving for my original plan so I won't elaborate just yet, don't want to have a meltdown LOL. I see myself as steely inside, not as a vulnerable damsel in distress. Yuck! LOL. So what I will reassure you of is, i'm getting the proffessional support I need to pull through. I've been a customer/member of Betterhelp for over a year (since 2021) and i've worked with a treasure of a therapist (name removed to protect identity), so due to my present mess, i've temporarily increased our weekly sessions to twice a week untill I can move forwards in myself emotionally. So yes i'm getting there. More soon when I feel ready. Finally, I just want to say everyone, being my fellow peers and all, I love having you all around me to provide me with extra enanced support. Honestly from the bottom of my heart, thank you, and keep being true to yourselves. As the old saying goes, "consistency is the key!". Bing true to yourselves in spirit. Hug.

Alex_Alumni

Hello again @Misswillow1 and thank you for updating us all

it's good to hear that you're getting the support you need, and that you've been finding the community so supportive, that's what it's all about!

Adapting to what life throws at us and changing plans shows great strength and resourcefulness, which is a big positive. But as you say, it's also important to acknowledge any sense of loss you feel about previous plans too.

We are here for you anytime, and I hope you enjoy the bank holiday weekend!

Misswillow1

Hi All, so quick update, due to low applicant numbers on my previous 2 degree courses in Performing Arts at my present uni, and because the entertainment industry is generally struggling financially at present (what with all the global crisis temporarily occurring at present), i've decided to resume my studies in the entertainment industry when i'm settled in Heaven. Business wise, because i'll be the best version of myself in God's domain, I perceive i'll get a lot more out of my career with all my senses back in place (my eyesight, etc etc). I've actually had a couple of prophetic dreams verry recently about that, (all about how i'll feel with my sight back in place) and, i'm so excited and reassured... I'll be turning cartwheels and all sorts! LOL. Watch this space all. I shalll update you all when I do regain it, i'll send a final life update. I think you'll find my perspective from Heaven interesting! I'll try not to talk your ears off LOL, promise LOL.

For the present however, back to my purpose, I feel i've made a wise decision focusing my efforts in supporting the Health and Social Care industry. I was only crushed having to change direction, because oh it was so much easier in Performing Arts, expressing myself, finding community support from my peers. Heck I even got a date from a special friend whom i've sadly had to ditch (untill Heaven). My point is, that's how amazing my peers were... Even my tutors valued my uniqueness, they bragged to my new tutors from uni how independent I am, how I don't like being babied, how I love challenges... You know?... My point is,everyone had fun creatively supporing me, because Performing Arts is obviously all about creativity, self-expression, solidarity, connection, light!!! Whereas in contrast, now in Health and Social care, (where creativity is basically seen as a dirty specemen by the likes of those of us with additional needs. That's my perception from my life experience up to now anyway), now, i'm going to have to work twice as hard just to attain equal team spirit. So that's what i've been grieving over. The difference of perceptions.

I'm ok however, don't worry guys. I'm into spiritual practice in my daily life, (and when I go to sleep), (you know, improving my intuition, etc etc), so i'm presently working towards contacting my spirit guides on the astral plane (once i'm past the frightful stage of detaching myself from my body consciously LOL. I'm a wuss sometimes LOL). In the meantime, i'm working with a therapist from Betterhelp.com, and i'll be having sessions twice a week with her to tide me over. Then once i've established a closer working relationship with my higher teachers and friends, i'll go back to having weekly sessions with my therapist. I'm aware of my spirit guides communicating with me as best they can at present in my daily life, due to the following signs i've researched in spiritual litterature. I hear tinnitus randomly in my ears for brief moments, that's the main obvious sign. I've read that sprit guides in general tailor their reassuring signs by their charges needs. So my lot know that I learn best through auditory feedback!

For those of you reading this gang who aren't into spirituality, feel free to ignore my message. Feel free to call me bonkers. LOL. I won't be offended LOL. But for me, spirituality combined with the Social Model, makes living with ROP, bareable. Stops me from actually screaming sometimes when I feel overwhelmed. Anyway, i've got to succeed living with it, I want to give my two special friends (Joseph and Michael, lads who in my present life, wanted to be my life partners. At different times LOL, i'm not that wild LOL) a positive and productive update in Heaven when I catch up with them. I want to show them what a strong soul I definitely am. So yeah, spiritual practice combined with the Social Model in my day to day life, helps me to interract as normally as I can. Also, I have fun, because I do my best to accept my additional need, set boundaries when I need to, and laugh as often as I can. Even at myself! Personally, I feel that's the best way to be, I mean we're so lucky compared to other people out there. So the easier we can pioneer our own challenges, the better! It's ourselves we need to be true to at the end of the day... I'm saying humbly LOL.

Anyway, presently, i'm doing my application for a foundation Health and Social care course for 2024. In February, i'm going to work with one of the Rehabilitation officers from my local council, on independent living skills, and i'm putting an extra agenda item (that of educating my immediate family practically, how to start gently easing out of their understandably stressed out slightly overprotective phase. Whilst the rehab officer is present, so he/she can help.).

Stay tuned
Big hug all
Many thanks again for being here if/when I require.

Warmest regards
Misswillow1