Living with Disabilities

First, welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy Website. It's run by none other than Katrina Smith, who's a person with a learning disability. Her mission behind Living With Disabilities is to bring awareness to all people with disabilities. Today, Living With Disabilities wants to talk about codependent parents.   Some people with disabilities may deal with this and find it very hard to navigate through a parent who is codependent on them. Especially, at an adult age.   What is a codependent parent ?   A parent who has an unhealthy attachment to their child and attempts to exert or express control over them as a result of that attachment.  When it comes to being a child with a disability, a parent will find methods to be attached to their child because their needs were not fulfilled when they were young.    Living With Disabilities agrees with the definition of What is a codependent parent . And it's extremely toxic for the person struggling w...

First, welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy Website. It's run by none other than Katrina Smith, who's a person with a learning disability. Her mission behind Living With Disabilities is to bring awareness to all people with disabilities.   Today, Living With Disabilities wants to talk about Parenting a child with disabilities.  When it comes to becoming a parent, you must be prepared to provide for the child. And nobody likes to hear bad news, and sometimes that bad news can become quite challenging. What are the challenges in today's news? The child is born with a disability, a physical disability. There are other disabilities besides physical disabilities that a child is born with. Today's topic will be sharing a few stories from parents, who gave birth to a child with a disability, and a parent who has a disability with children with a disability. Basically, we're flipping the script a little bit here. Here are two young ladies' stories.   LB is ...

         First, welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy Website. It's run by none other than Katrina Smith, who's a person with a learning disability. Her mission behind Living With Disabilities is to bring awareness to all people with disabilities.   Today, Living With Disabilities wants to talk about being a person with a disability. Note that some parts of this article can become controversial and you are willing to leave a comment. Living With Disabilities always wants to hear from you. And what other way to introduce this topic with a quote from Jhana Matthews, a friend, and self-advocate of Katrina Smith.   Which will you be, the hopeless Victim , that everyone wants you to be, or the hopeful Victor?!?!?!?! Everyone is born into this world for a reason, whatever that reason maybe every Individual will know as time goes on. Some of us are born with a disability, a physical disability. Like, Cerebral Palsy, or being born without limb...

  First, welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy Website. It's run by none other than Katrina Smith, who's a person with a learning disability. Her mission behind Living With Disabilities is to bring awareness to all people with disabilities.   Today, Living With Disabilities wants to talk about the Oscars that recently happened on Sunday, March 27, 2022.     The 94th Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. "CODA, " a moderately lower-scale drama/musical once considered an underdog, won the award for best picture and became the first film disturbed by streaming services to win Hollywood's top honor.  In 2021 " CODA, " made it to the Sundance Film festival and Apple TV, which was purchased after the movie premiered at the Sundance Film festival.     Why is the whole disabled community proud of the cast of " CODA ?" People who are Deaf/deaf/HOH are finally getting recognized or should Living With Disabilities say: ...