~PCA~

In Oct. 2011 Philadelphia police freed four mentally-challenged individuals from captivity in a basement. The individuals were discovered by Turgut Gozleveli, a janitor. Three people pretending to be caretakers chained them to a basement while the caretakers were collecting their social security disability checks. Why would someone do this? I will never understand. We are not made from the same cloth, equipped with the same tools, but that doesn't mean we all don't deserve to be treated like we are human beings. I recently had a similar dealing with a personal care attendant.  I went through the process of certifying this person to be able to help me, but it didn't work out. There were a lot of things that couldn't be overcome no matter what solution we offered. When I realized this, I let her go as gracefully and as nicely as I could. She met my kindness with hatred and unkindness, however. She said a lot of  horrible things to me that really hurt my feelings. One thing that she told me was she was going to have to drop out of college now that I fired her as my PCA. And she hoped I was happy now. If she wanted to be in school badly enough, and this is just my philosophy, she wouldn't let anything, loosing one job or the next stop her. That is just the way I see it. Grow up. Don't be so quick to point your fingers, you know?