Do you ever feel sometimes that you are walking through molasses to get to a goal?
Recently I have felt just that way. Every step forward in recent weeks seems to be at such an effort it hardly seems that I am making progress.
In the summer I made attempts to get the training that I missed out on when I first went blind five years ago. Training in using adaptive technology, training in just living, cooking, organizing. What I now have is a series of ad hoc skills thaat I put together for myself, re-inventing the wheel at every problem.
Anyway earlier this summer I learned that there was no need for that, there are teachers out there to assess and train you and I for those problems. The only problem.
We have to be introduced. We cannot access them ourselves. Civil Servants have to introduce us and agree to pay for the services.
Civil Servant bereaucrats who are the molasses at our feet.
After six months now. I have had an assessment for independent living skilss, a low vision assessment and am waiting on a workplace assessment.
The low vision test has already bourne fruit, I go to collect some eye glasses on Monday.
The independent living skills has led to an interview and they are recommending actions.
The workplace assessment has been postponed twice by either the assessing agency or my employer.
It is just so frustrating that after five years of inaction and ignoring my requests for help, that now the powers that be just continue to slow down every possible movement forward.
Maybe instead of embedding our feet in the molasses of bureaucracy they should just hang us from our feet and drown us in the damn stuff,
Recently I have felt just that way. Every step forward in recent weeks seems to be at such an effort it hardly seems that I am making progress.
In the summer I made attempts to get the training that I missed out on when I first went blind five years ago. Training in using adaptive technology, training in just living, cooking, organizing. What I now have is a series of ad hoc skills thaat I put together for myself, re-inventing the wheel at every problem.
Anyway earlier this summer I learned that there was no need for that, there are teachers out there to assess and train you and I for those problems. The only problem.
We have to be introduced. We cannot access them ourselves. Civil Servants have to introduce us and agree to pay for the services.
Civil Servant bereaucrats who are the molasses at our feet.
After six months now. I have had an assessment for independent living skilss, a low vision assessment and am waiting on a workplace assessment.
The low vision test has already bourne fruit, I go to collect some eye glasses on Monday.
The independent living skills has led to an interview and they are recommending actions.
The workplace assessment has been postponed twice by either the assessing agency or my employer.
It is just so frustrating that after five years of inaction and ignoring my requests for help, that now the powers that be just continue to slow down every possible movement forward.
Maybe instead of embedding our feet in the molasses of bureaucracy they should just hang us from our feet and drown us in the damn stuff,
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