{"id":719,"date":"2019-09-19T08:47:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/?p=719"},"modified":"2024-02-16T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T20:00:08","slug":"advocacy-an-important-matter-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/2019\/09\/19\/advocacy-an-important-matter-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy; An Important Matter to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Amelia Dickey<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Amelia Dickey.&nbsp; I have been a disability advocate for several\nyears.&nbsp; I attended the Young Adult\nCompass group from April 2019 to April 2019.&nbsp;\nI have been involved and am involved in (when opportunity strikes) in\nmany Disability Advocacy outreach events (conferences, presentations, seminars,\n&amp; panels).&nbsp; I am a graduate of the\nAdvocate Leadership Academy both as a Fellow and a Team Leader.&nbsp; I am getting ready to be a Team Leader for a\nsecond time in the upcoming Fall 2019 Advocate Leadership Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A time that I\u2019ve overcame a challenge and barrier\ninclude, getting back onto the Giant 50\u2019 tall 3-person swing and going all the\nway to the top before I pulled the cord to begin swinging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The people that have been the biggest support in my\nlife include, but not limited to my Mom, Dad, Sister, and Brother-in-Law.&nbsp; The people that have been the most helpful in\nmy life include, but not limited to my Special Olympics, New Mexico teammates,\nand coaches; my Therapeutic Riding Instructor; the Dean, and Leaders of Joni\n&amp; Friends Family Retreat; and the Dean, campers, and Counselors of Camp\nSunshine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One Long-Term goal I want to accomplish is someday\nmoving out of my parents house and into a small place of my own with my own\nmedium sized poodle, and a pasture for a horse.&nbsp;\nI love horses, and dogs, and also want my own place so I can be able to\nspread my wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Self-Advocacy and standing up for myself is SO\nimportant to me because everyone should be treated with the dignity and respect\nregardless of their disabilities or abilities..&nbsp;\nI am VERY passionate when it comes to Self-Advocacy.&nbsp; I believe that people with disabilities\nshould be referred to as the person first, not the disability.&nbsp; For example, \u201ca person who is deaf should be\nreferred to as \u201ca person who is deaf\u201d NOT a \u201cdeaf person\u201d.&nbsp; The only person qualified to stand up for you\nis yourself.&nbsp; If I am treated unfairly,\nput down, or touched inappropriately by an individual I have the right to stand\nup to that person, and\/or go to the proper authority to report it.\n\nThe supports and strategies that have been successful in helping me meet\nmy goals include, but are not limited to using a visual schedule in the form of\nan Excel Spreadsheet, using my phone calendar to help me keep track of my daily\nevents, as well as using my phone to set a timer, reminders, and alarms to help\nkeep me on track.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amelia Dickey My name is Amelia Dickey.&nbsp; I have been a disability advocate for several years.&nbsp; I attended the Young Adult Compass group from April 2019 to April 2019.&nbsp; I have been involved and am involved in (when opportunity strikes) in many Disability Advocacy outreach events (conferences, presentations, seminars, &amp; panels).&nbsp; I am a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[76,53,34],"class_list":{"0":"post-719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-5-18","8":"category-adult-with-autism","9":"tag-advocacy","10":"tag-blog","11":"tag-blog-post","12":"czr-hentry"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2027-05-25 06:00:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdd.health.unm.edu\/autismportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}