LetThemEatCake
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I really wonder why this kid wasn’t in some sort of facility given the severity of his issues. I had maybe incorrectly assumed the NHS did offer more full time care options.
What Allo Vera said. The days of grand-scale institutionalization of the disabled have gone, and the reality is unless you give up your parental rights, you are pretty much expected not just to cope at home, with 'support' and as I said earlier, WANT to have the kid at home, no matter the cost to your life, your family life, your ability to earn a living etc etc. The social pressure from professionals to well-meaning acquaintances to keep your sped 4evah or be deemed an evil irresponsible cunt and unfit human is huge.
TThe reality is maybe sped gets a term-time special school place until age 18, and your local authority will pay for a taxi daily to and fro. You are expected to submerge your life in finding support groups, and activity groups ouside it, depending on the level of spedness. Maybe you qualify for respite, maybe you don't. Maybe you have to basically threaten harm to yourself to get any at all. Will depend on many factors. After 18, if you want to not care for the now adult sped, the choices are few. Depending on wha ails them they could end up in the few full-time care homes or farmed out to 'supported' accomodation with daily visits from carers or if they're particularly difficult, teams of live-in carers on rotation, ala our old friend Jonty Bravery, whose exceptional autism and psychopathic type of spedness resultted in him throwing a small boy off the Tate roof in London, and now Jonty is 'cared' for in Broadmoor or a state-run secure mental hospital for criminallly looney people.
Social care isn't provided by the NHS btw. Medical care is their purview. Care needs are dealt with by one's local authoritty and social services and vary depending where you live and what resources and funding are available and he pressure on said resources. Generally stuff won't be offered, you will have to fight for every scrap of it. This can become a full-time job.
The mother was from Moscow. Russians haven’t had the luxuries of the west and they still dump speds and even just normal kids in orphanages if they are unwanted. There was a roaring trade in white infants and toddler adoptions to the west for many years thanks to this. They do not share the sentiments of the west when it comes to the severely disabled.
Olga married a rich Englishman and ended up with a severe sped. Given the type of Russian woman who manages to hustle out of Moscow and marry a wealthy western photographer- this was surely a very unexpected detour for her life and one she was ill equipped in many ways to deal with. She may have even gotten pregnant hoping it was her ticket to marriage and a secure life but it was like some dark genie wish. She got the home in London but in exchange it became a prison.
Yeah, I did wonder about all that part too. Just shows how you can be 'winning' and one twist of fate (or one genetic mutation during conception or the bad luck of having the same rare and recessive gene as your chosen partner) and you can be fucked. All that way to end a prisoner to a non-verbal, violent sped. You can be whatever interesting life she had before thtat kid was born was destroyed. No friends left. Can't socialise anymore. And I will lay money on the fact the government-enforced isolation of the pas six months played heavily into her final actions. Maybe she lost it as the walls closed in. Maybe she saw it as a mercy killing. Fuck knows, but I can see how ten years of grind, the past six months of near solitary confinement and the though of a fuure where this does.not.end. and we're all held hostage like this to social isolationism for fear of a virus could drive anyone into a seriously dark place.
The father can fuck off. He probably had seen the kid maybe a total of a week in the past four years. His “he loved to travel, visit art galleries...” is just putrid and sound like the warrior moms who pretend their potato in a wheelchair will be a ballet dancer. But a potato would have been far easier to care for than Dylan. Potato kids just lay there, it sounds like Dylan kicked, screamed and fought a lot making caretaking x1000 harder. Can you imagine changing shit filled diapers of a screaming, kicking 10 year old?
Yep. If he was interesed in contact with the kid, he'd have pursued his career from London, a global media and travel hub. His comments sound like HIS interests, not the kid's. How much did Dylan travel in reality? Come on. Globe trotting was dad's gig. Art galleries? Again, dad was the artistic, visual arts type who'd be into that. Thrashing, non-verbal speds less so. Pure projection. Maybe the kid went to swimming for the disabled and flopped around in the water though. One out tof three ain'tt bad.