Thank you fellow Tattlers for updates - I didn't watch the documentary, but did se the Scratch card YT.
It's a constant drip feed from her isn't it - little snippets here and there, just enough to create interest. She knows what she's doing - it's been her only job after all.
The Scratch card vid, made my heart sink further - like Harvey is a performing seal, to bring out and show, at her whim. I really am so very shocked that he doesn't have an Advocate and that SS cannot put a stop to this.
She is now saying she wants to be an Ambassador for Disabilities, to highlight Harvey's disability - why hasn't she been doing this for years? Because it wasn't important enough to her - but now money is no longer bountiful, she is using Harvey as a gravy train.
The housing situation - if she does have Harvey at another address, and in another County, that could be to do with that County paying more towards Harvey's care.
We lived in a county that supported people with disabilities well, but the next County didn't. I knew of 2 families, that moved to where we were because of this. This was some years ago, and things will have changed again since, but that's what struck me.
All of what she is doing, is done with knowledge I expect gshe will have been advised that if she does "xyz", the outcome should be this.
Harvey's needs at 18, would have been in discussion from around age 14 - nothing happens overnight. Its working towards that time of our cared for people either living home to go to a residential training college, living independently, staying at home with work placement - there are different options.
I'm thinking to when our own DS left school/college - and some of his peers - there were options back then, not many agreed, but it wasn't all doom and gloom.
If the cared for person needs to go to a setting "out of county", that all takes times to be agreed - years in fact, hence the ball starting to roll at age 14.
How anyone in their right mind can think she is a caring, nurturing Mother is beyond me - SHE comes before any of her children - and the same now with her and Teef - both of them deserve each other.
Again as before, I'm sorry for a long post. I've tried to not read so much, as it makes me feel
and in the current situation that's not good for me.
I'd like 10 minutes with her - I'd like her to meet our DS - Harvey's life shouldn't be like this. She has the means and contacts, where he could have been settled by now. Its heart breaking.