1. The stress that ‘co-production’ takes when power is unequal is highly distressing for the party with lesser power in the partnership, particularly over long periods of time where the power imbalance is sustained and there is no action to remedy this. When power is abused by >
2. ensuring that decisions about LX practice or services can never be made by the Lived Experience Professional in the room, that you take those decisions outside of the room, this causes distress and harm. The harm caused by the abuse is used an example of why #LXPs are >
3. described as ‘vulnerable’, or prone to going off sick. Let’s just be very plain speaking about this - LXPs aren’t vulnerable. They are warriors who have been through wars. What they are is people who already have battle wounds, coming into workplaces that will particularly >
4. target them for their LXP label. After sustained bullying through exclusion, micro aggressions, blatant discrimination that nobody sees - it’s the gaslighting and denial that gets you - yes, of course your #LXP will fuck off sick. This will be your moment to co-produce the >
5. shit out of everything while they are away. Everything that moved at a snails pace before and that your #LXP broke their heart trying to get started will be rushed through like a steam train. Strangely, that will make your #LXP sad and add to their distress and their time off>
6. Everyone will notice how fragile and sickly and ill the person is. Nobody seems to link that everything that the #LXP was trying to do is being sabotaged and that maybe this is why they are sad. Or... maybe they do. Either way, it appears to serve the party with more power to>
7. retain this power and just keep the status quo. To do this, the #LXP needs to be ejected - either excluded within the workplace, or physically ejected. This is classic group theory, yo. Funny how the shrinks are happy to apply the theory to the mentals yet not so happy to >
8. apply it to their damn selves when espousing these theories. This may also sound very specific and like I’m having a total bitch. Yes I have totally experienced this. However, this is a universal experience that most LXPs will experience to varying extents. >
9. Because #LXPs are usually alone & isolated in their work, they will usually feel that the problem lies with them. That this is their fault. That they are shit at their job. They can’t cope. They are too ‘ill’. Nah. You’re too bullied, abused, excluded, gaslighted. Of course >
10. you’re fucking ill. The first stage of prevention comes with being honest about appropriation of the word co-production. You wanna use that word? Fucking earn it. Employ is to run that show. We’ll ensure it’s coproduction. As long as staff nurse Karen is in as a nice little >
11. project before she retires there will be no change. We need one of us leading the gig. Or at lead CO-LEADing it. Otherwise, call it what it is. Take a look at the ladder if participation. Choose the appropriate level, be it tokenism or manipulation. Just let us know what >
12. we’re really in for, so that there’s no confusion and we’ve been able to make an informed decision about whether we will accept working in a place where abusive practice, discrimination and exploitation is something we are willing to tolerate.
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