Disability Wellness

Persons with circumstances of disability are often without recourse but to look to and rely upon the advocacy movements that have been spawned in the course of society seeking to develop better responses to disability related needs.  Unfortunately, the good intentions of these movements often find themselves being unknowingly converted into an industry of their own that becomes more focussed on preserving its own identities and financial funding than unabashedly pursuing disability interests.  And often, the majority of the persons in these movements end up being non disabled persons who purport to speak for the disabled.  Meanwhile, politicians who hold the purse strings to disability funding are quick to get on the bandwagon that best serves to enhance their image.   And no sooner does a movement become ineffective in the eyes of its beholders, than there appears funding for yet  another task force or study, and the spawning of  a supposedly new disability advocacy movement. Consequently persons in circumstances of disability are becoming increasingly skeptical of the effectiveness and integrities of many of these advocacy movements.  Sometimes the movements are seen to be becoming more of the problem, than the solution to disability issues.