To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Because you cared for me
It is imperative that we don’t forget the needs of our young adults with multiple disabilities and challenges who still reside at home with their middle age parents. Their needs are just as important as the children and the elderly with such, and yet they have somehow fallen through the cracks. More needs to be in place to care for them during the day that includes socialization, further development, and assistance for the working, exhausted, and maturing caretaker. Let's put our funds back where they belong; providing care for the weak–who are not weak by choice, but chance.
Why is this important?
I am a single mother of a son with multiple disabilities. He needs total care and despite his needs, I must, and have worked full time all of his life, because I have had three other sons to provide for. Since he is now an adult his care is chopped in half, but the need is greater for I am older, and so is he, and yet I still need to work. There is no room for me to take care of normal errands because the hours of care stop the minute I arrive home from work. The services that are available have denied him due to his level of needed care and yet our policies word it so that they won't supply him with level he requires. Although they say it is our right to keep them home the funds provided doesn't afford us a realistic ability to do so! It is time for us to make a concerted effort to care for our feeble and those who care for them diligently, respectfully, and loyally.