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Attended a (virtual) meeting earlier with a mate who has been trying to sort a life for her adult son for years on years.
Some wider reflections. Professionals can make unsubstantiated statements in reports, emails or minutes and these are held to be fact.
Contributions by parents can be ignored, dismissed, fabricated. Numerous permutations of re-jigging, tossing aside or generating new words and actions.
‘Dependency work’ [drawing on Eva Kittay] can be intense, enduring, extraordinary, joyful, technically sophisticated, exhausting.
There’s little understanding of what this work, the actual day to day labour, involves and the lack of support underpinning it.
There seems to be little [what?] recognition [?] that an actual person is at the centre of this shebang. This professional party.
