Reflection - Pick me up
This month we lost the remarkable poet Andrea Gibson, whose work championed LGBTQIA+ rights, mental health and social justice. Their poems are an enduring legacy of advocacy through their art.
In one of their poems, Andrea wrote:
Pick me up in a truck with that bumper sticker that says,
"It is no measure of good health
to be well adjusted to a sick society."
Reading this poem again the other day got me thinking this: it's a sign of our professional wellbeing that we can't morally or ethically adjust to many of the ways the NDIA conceptualises OTs and the precious people who access the NDIS.
It's a sign of our wellbeing that we've been particularly morally and ethically injured since June.
It's a sign of our wellbeing that we're humane.
While it pains me to witness (and feel) the hurt the Australian OT community has experienced lately, I'm proud of our profession for being well enough to cry out against injustice and a lack of humanity.
