He was with me & I was with him & then quite suddenly my boy was gone. We spent the last 18 months always together battling Leukemia, & we lost. Henry did everything he was supposed to do to be a survivor, to stay with us.. 1/14 …to get to uni, get to a Boxing Day test, get to a nightclub for a ‘big night out’, travel with his friends, do the things all school leavers should do. Our health professionals did everything they could, but all the love & medicine in the world wasn’t enough.

I’ve questioned whether 2 tell this story as theres a sense of shame in it.

A terrible sinking feeling that in some way I may have been at fault, I embarrassed my kids, I couldve done things differently.

But today on #IDPW #IDPW2020 its worth telling. 1/14
#disability Its a tiny woeful story about a hot chocolate order from #jamaicablue at #Indooroopilly shopping centre.

It ends in tears, humiliation...all over three seats.

It’s a story about privilege & ableism. It’s a familiar story for me, a disabled woman. 2/14

Imagine a law that allows people to say that yr disability is a trial imposed by God.

Worse, that it would be able to b said to a student in front of their peers in a classroom.

Well this is it...

Thread.. #auspol

google.com.au/amp/s/amp.theg… It is a clear attack on the Disability Discrimination Act 2004.

And it makes a mockery of the Disability Royal Commission which was set up to weed out and expose this type of behaviour.