Parents of kids with disability or autism promote initiative for using a bracelet while going out on therapeutic walks to avoid verbal attacks.
Relatives of people with disabilities, especially those with cognitive disorders, are promoting an awareness initiative on social networks asking people who go out for health reasons, to wear a blue bracelet to indicate that they have the need and permission to go out to the street. Parents and minors are forced to wear a badge to prevent neighbors insulting their their children from the balconies.
Since the confinement was decreed, the balconies have been a focus of life and have begun to lead to a focus of vigilance. “People are more papist than the pope,” jokes Juan Carlos, Carla’s father, a 21-year-old girl with 70% intellectual disability. Carla is a girl with fixed routines and now “everything has blown up.” Her father, a concierge in a dwelling development, must go out to work daily for maintenance tasks and delivery of orders to the neighbors. Paradoxically, the contact he has in the neighborhood, prevents him of having contact with his daughter. “Explain to a girl that you can’t hug her and you can’t kiss her,” she laments. “I’m a janitor, I’m up and down the whole day. It’s difficult [for her] to understand it. We show her funny videos to relax her, but we have to have the TV on – with the news on]. You have to explain that they can’t go out” , Add.
The confinement has forced the closure of the day center where his daughter went and his wife has had to find a way to carry out her training at home with the support of the association to which they belong. “Being able to go out relieves us a little,” he says, since young women like Carla can self-harm or attack their environment if they enter a nervous breakdown. Precisely, the objective of their walks is to avoid this crisis and for this reason the Government authorizes them to be able to walk outdoors.
