tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246355819655985290.post7614750171759827170..comments2018-07-04T19:55:29.476+09:30Comments on Purple Orange: Ho Ho Ho, or not?Robbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00997030494556421786noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246355819655985290.post-85971035801536418972010-11-23T11:52:03.617+10:302010-11-23T11:52:03.617+10:30Harriet, thanks for your comment, and no offence w...Harriet, thanks for your comment, and no offence was intended. My point was not that someone in a congregated service will by definition be lonely, or that it is somewhow wrong for a person living with disability to have friends who also have a disability. My point was that we should not assume that vulnerable people who live in congregate arrangements will definitely not be lonely.Robbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997030494556421786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246355819655985290.post-13253022546166624232010-10-25T14:18:37.369+10:302010-10-25T14:18:37.369+10:30I take offense at your aside, Robbi (or in a congr...I take offense at your aside, Robbi (or in a congregated support service). For three and a half decades I have been trying to get inside the head of my son, who has a severe intellectual disability. What I have learned from him is that although he has access to any number of family and to family friends, it is his own friends, those people who have a disability similar to his, whose company he Harrietnoreply@blogger.com