The Resident awards

Thought it was about time, especially about the staff as they get more bad than good.
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THE MOST UNDERSTANDING [OF AUTISM AND SELF] AWARD.
-GOES TO: Dawn.
-Dawn is NAS residential home staff who comes here to support am every week.
It takes am a while to get used to new staff,but with Dawn it took less.
She understood am without having to get things wrong for years first [like with learning disability services] she respects everyone equally no matter the level of autism and disability.
She is a truly awesome staff!


THE NICEST STAFF AWARD.
GOES TO: Neil.
-Neil is very nice and has never judged am,even when he gets caught in the meltdowns or when nasty staff have told him untrue things,he has always believed in am.

He has never seen am as a burden [one of..two maybe who havent] and he fought to get am high rate mobility of DLA and a motability car,which would have put anyone else off because of the amount of work involved in it.
He is also am keyworker,and has fought to get am more help for the meltdowns.


THE NICEST NIGHT STAFF AWARD.
GOES TO: Bolla.
-Am often have problems with agency staff [and so rarely ever have them] but Bolla is from an agency and is nothing like other staff am have known from the same place.
Bolla is very nice and understanding,she also takes am out at night for a walk,as she knows am housebound almost all day from the day time overload so she takes am out at night and GFB often comes along to for the whole walk.

She never judged am from the first time she came here,even when the bad staff were gossiping to her about am and staff they dont like.
She used to work as day staff here [before am lived here] but changed to night staff because she got fed up with all the nastiness off the bad staff.


THE NICEST RESIDENT AWARD.
GOES TO: David.
-am share upstairs with David whilst everyone else is together downstairs [David is overloaded by noise as well],David is very nice and is never nasty to anyone.
He is so nice,he has a problem with saying he doesn't like something,he doesn't like to be bad to others.
He always looks out for am,and makes sure am ok,and am hate being a burden on him.

David has DS [downs] and wrongly gets treated like he can't do anything from certain staff,so he doesn't get to do the things he wants,for example,he got interested in laptops/computers after seeing am using them and wanted one,and the automatic line from some was 'he's not intelligent enough'....they see the downs 'look' and not him instead,he does go through a lot yet he doesn't fight back over it,he is the nicest resident am know here.


THE BEST SPECIALIST AWARD.
GOES TO: Andrew.
-Andrew was the autism specialised speech therapist am had,until he moved out of the city,and no one has ever replaced him,in a way,no one really could replace him.

Andrew did so much for am,more than just speech therapy,am had known him for years and in that time along with Donna [second social worker],he had done more than own family had.

He did everything from getting respite and institution placement,to training staff about am and autism,nothing in routine/life was allowed to be changed or removed without it being agreed with first by Andrew.

The staff of the institution used to say to am,that Andrew was horrible but am never had that at all with him,they only saw him as horrible because he complained about them for what they did to am a lot.
So yes,awesome guy,need more like him in the Autism world.


THE GFB AWARD FOR RESIDENT KITTEHS.
GOES TO: Smudge.
-Smudge is a sixteen year old tortishell and white lady-cat and she lives down stairs.
She still looks like a older kitten and acts like one.
She has a boyfriend [GFB] and he uses it as an excuse to sneak in when staff open the door and steal her food all the time.
She likes attention,and sleeping.