Ethics, Web Design, Mental Illness, and Death — Not necessarily in Order

going through your digital files I found this blog when I was working for Spirit Lake Consulting back in 2007.

“That about sums up my week here at Spirit Lake Consulting. There is not much time to get bored because, like the weather in Missouri, the workload changes every 30 minutes.

The Adulthood, Aging and Disability on-line workshop will be finished in less than two weeks. This workshop has been very different to write. Our other workshops are more organized in sections, e.g. an introduction to disability and then the 13 categories under special education law. The on-line workshop on Adulthood is more by topic, like the series of readings a person would get in their last course in their senior year of college, or in a course toward the end of a graduate program. By now, if you have been adjusting to a disability for forty years, either your own or that of a spouse or child, you know what the diagnosis means, you know the address for the Social Security office and you have already been in a fight with someone at IHS over medical care.

At this point, you are probably looking for kindred spirits, for people who understand and can sympathize. Out of your community education, you want less education and more community. In this workshop we have more personal stories. Jessica Holmes talks about growing up with a father who is schizophrenic and obsessive compulsive. She says,