My girlfriend works at a residential home for adults with severe disabilities. Some are ok - they can understand things and chat to you, but others are really impaired mentally and rock to a fro, have difficulty communicating etc etc. Recently i took my 4 yr old daughter to the home which brought in an outside theatre company to perform a xmas panto. My girl enjoyed it, met the residents - stared a little, was confused over the severe ones, paid no attention to the less severe ones - but when we left she asked "dad - why was kelly being stupid?" - Kelly rocks to and fro, side to side, communicates in makaton with sporadic verbal phrases (that only her carers understand). I just said that i would tell her later - putting it off and off. But she is asking about it again, and i dont know what to say or how to explain it. I did think of something like - her brain is broken (making it simple for her to grasp) but i dont think she would know what the brain really does. Any advice please?
2007-01-04
14:02:10
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