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It was great times when institionalised disabled people managed to escape those big horrendous state hospitals for 'Care in the Community.' It never had the ring fenced funding it was supposed to get, but it was a start. Fitting into our society was challenging for people with disabilities with widespread discrimination and stereotypes. Enabling disabled people to become independent and to teach them about their rights was at times sad because I had always taken my rights for granted and these people had been denied theirs. Society had marginalised them and forgotten about them and didn't know how to cope but gradually society has been learning that disabled people are part of our society although many assumptions are still made and discrimination still exists. Since the big institutions, leaps and bounds have been made and disabled people have a working model that still needs expanding upon. Sadly, if disabled people are denied the money that they need to maintain independence they will end up back in, institutional care. 'Out of sight out of mind.' Whether it's a care home or residential there are restrictions and routines become the way of functioning with a disregard to individuality. Imagine becoming disabled and being torn away from your home to live with a bunch of people you don't know? How imprisoned would you feel? I personally would hate it. After all the hard work that was done it is all going to be set back by years. Let us not accept anyone being forced to live on the margins of society. We need to fight tooth and nail to keep them independent and striving for a better way as a full member of our society. A society that discriminates is not a society I wish to be part off.