What Happens During a NDIS Planning Meeting?

YDAS talked to young people with disability about what happens during a NDIS planning meeting and how the NDIS can support them to reach their goals. Here's what they had to say.
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[@dwairau384]

Beautiful people! that's why I'm a support worker, I love my job😁

[@ginnymay8965]

I find it difficult to speak up and be more assertive for myself. But over the years I’ve gotten better, but it all depends on the circumstances, environment, situation, what is demanded of me, and other things. When I was in high school it was very difficult to speak up because I would forget how to word my “problems”. Because my brain struggles to turn thoughts and feelings into words sometimes when I need help. But then I’m also very articulate and I have a very big vocabulary. I really like explaining things (when I have the energy that is) and for some reason recently I’ve been having autistic burnout. Autistic burnout is when a autistic person will find it very difficult to enjoy the things they love, without using up energy. They will also have difficulty understanding, have trouble verbalising, have troubles with motor skills etc more so than usual. I also find that even the autistic people that are very verbal can also become non verbal when having a autistic burnout. I struggled to verbalise, speak coherently, understand verbal instructions and I was also experiencing brain fog more severely. It was absolutely horrible! I also had a meltdown. I didn’t know that the symptoms I was feeling was called a “autistic burnout” but now that I have a word for my symptoms, my feelings I can actually treat myself better. And hopefully move forward.

[@paranormalexperience5770]

Well, I have 3 children/adults on NDIS. This must be our 5th review planning meeting and it was discusting.. it was more like a interrogation and the planners were rude and horrible.. in Melbourne they were lovely.. in cairns (very dumb and arrogant) so sorry wish I could agree it is a nice process.. 😳

[@vijaydeshpande7563]

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[@Zasek2112]

When I lived in QLD the head of QLD mental health told me to my face if I didn't take the meds that gave me bad reaction every time, he'd get my wellfair cut because "I was obviously not depressed or suicidal, I was just milking the system". Police took me to hospital after a self harm incident because they had a "duty of care", but the hospital refused any treatment. After a black out I woke up with scissors in one hand and blood all up one arm, experience told me no one would care. I treated myself. Fuck QLD.

[@Northisbest]

I'm disability and my first planner was disgusting messed not match to what I am...I'm currently on fixing change to match on me. I'm aware of cheating in the system.

[@Zasek2112]

None of their supports applied to me, so their plan was to do nothing. Many years later I'm still trying to figure out what they spend my funding on every year. The one issue I wanted help with was dealing with the process of getting a job, something as simple as mowing lawns or stacking shelves. "Oh honey, stacking shelves is REALLY complicated". I'm not cognitively impared, that was really insulting. Mowing lawns? A 6 hour shift was run so badly it was ussually only 2 hours of actual work, where some people are paid to break equipment because they DON'T WANT TO BE THERE! One employer they suggested paid $2 an hour. Not even enough to get the bus there and back and get lunch at their canteen. Clearly it was more about the carers getting a day or 2 off per week than it was about helping people actualise their potential with meaningful work. Meanwhile I hear about people working FOR the NDIS who get paid a DECENT wage to play video games and smoke pot being a pandering pretend friend to people who don't realise how condersending that is.

[@basedbattledroid3507]

I'm disabled and the way NDIS employees have treated me is absolutely despicable. Hanging up mid-call, shouting and verbally abusing me, five of them have told me to commit suicide, one of them was a manager. They've told me I'm a "Burden to taxpayers" and a "waste of life". Not only me dealing with this; every other disabled person I know is being treated like less than nothing by these NDIS pricks. Nobody should be treated the way the NDIS employees have been treating us. Absolutely disgusting. None of them have any experience; a company like this should be run by disabled people and carers, not the people who run it now. It's supposed to make life easier but it's made it more troublesome than it was before. Not to mention they kept the robotic Centrelink answering machine voice, massive red flag there. That's like they want to keep us traumatized. NDIS is a bloody disgrace. I've struggled with suicide since I was 8 years old, people have been telling me I'm worthless and a strain on everyone, especially people at Centrelink, liberal party, school bullies, people at job interviews, dad. I've made several attempts to kill myself and have only stopped myself after thinking how it would affect my loved ones. But every time I deal with the NDIS; They're practically telling me to do it. I hate living in a country that hates disability, I was born this way, I can't do anything about it but I swear; these interractions with centrelink had me thinking about suicide very early on, NDIS is basically Centrelink with 4% less empathy, Massive scam. If I had less willpower; I probably would've taken their "advice" on-board. I work hard, I pay taxes myself, I struggled so hard to even find a job because all of the employers had a problem with me being disabled, I'm only lucky the last interviewer I had was a blind woman. I hate how f--kwits like Bronwyn Bishop and Mathias Corrmann and all the people in parliament can splurge the taxpayer's dosh on anything they want and say "Oopsie, got a free holiday." while I barely have enough money to buy bread at the end of the week and I'm being called a detriment to the economy, along with anyone else that has a disability. Hate this shit. Would be so wonderful to just be a billionaire and tell these NDIS employees to jam it. So many people that still need funding and haven't received it, so many people treated like crap on the phone AND in person. It's a festering mess. I bet none of the people in this ad even managed to receive support.

[@karendawson4369]

I'm waiting for my old support worker to be arrested for stealing most of my funding

[@jamesmincham9493]

This video is not entirely accurate as I treated very rudely and exploited by a service provider.

[@cdwwillow9671]

Run towards NDIS if you have a disability ,they have the keys to the treasury , and heaps of taxpayers money to spend , so off you go , do it today !

[@Zasek2112]

Been with them since day one. I haven't seen a single dollar.

[@indyvail3357]

Don't think that's how it works.