Intellectual Disabilities (or PWID)

What do you do when family members don’t care or understand the difficulties of having and being a person with intellectual disabilities? If someone looks normal they must be, right? It has been my experience relatives have little or no patience with pwids. They can become cruel and indifferent. I was always told that families stick together not so in mine. They truly do not comprehend the difficulties a sole provider has with being able to adjust to all the prejudices of the outside world including social, work environments, and family, it is just sad! My daughter has step family who will hardly acknowledge her, certainly won’t try to understand her and won’t give her the benefit of doubt. They expect her to process difficult and abstract reasoning without problems. They have formulated opinions based on hearsay. When was that ever ok?

Sound upset- I am? They live in their own little world sheltered by their own ignorance and force their opinions and thoughts on others. No one can do anything wrong it seems to be always the person with the disability. The person with a disability obviously has no moral fiber or does not understand right from wrong. Hog wash, the people I have known with intellectual disabilities, if anything have a higher sense of right and wrong, are more sensitive of others feelings, and believe in a almost naïve and innocent way no one would intentionally hurt them.

All I can say to those people is go ahead delude yourselves and miss the best part of experiencing life with a very different point of view, full of forgiveness, love, and joy. You don’t know what you are missing.