Sibshops

  For those who like chess there is chess club, for those who enjoy a fandom there are clubs to go and talk about your fandom with other, for siblings with special needs there is sibships. Sibshops is an organization that lets siblings of kids with special needs hand out with each other, and talk about are siblings, and also do activities that give us a better understanding of how are siblings live their lives. I am part of a group of about seven people who started a sibshops about two years ago. I have not only made many friends, and learned about a bunch of different types of special needs making my understanding a little bit better, but I have also learned that I am not the only one. Not the only one who worries about what is going to happen to their sibling...not the only one who can be annoyed at all of the care their sibling needs....and not the only one who just wants the best for the sibling they love so much.

I am always excited to see my sibshops friends when we meed once a month!

Ableism?

  Today I was wondering...we have racism for discrimination against race, sexism for discrimination of gender, but what about for people with special needs? What is the word? I looked it up and it turns out the word is ableism. Ableism? My brother is many things, but he doesn't have less abilities than someone without special needs. He has to work a million times harder me and millions of others every day, and now people are saying it isn't ok to be mean to him because he has less abilities?! This is crazy!!!!! Then I thought about the term used for people with special needs...disabled? My brother has not disabled, if anything he is above abled. He works hard everyday to do things that many people take for granted, and this is what people think of him! Well I have decided to try and stop using these words...I have deleted them from all of my posts (but not this one), except for quotes and I plan to everyday stop the myth of people with special needs being "disabled"! I hope after reading this you will think twice about what is considered abled.