lack of choices for groups to replace old-day program and argument with Mom
So i used to attend a day program over in Achilles it been online since 2020. It was suppose to be back in person but that never happened even after it was being made accessible. Before I talk about disabled-oriented groups I want to make myself very clear about non-disabled group or other options.
a Part-time job is out for me because of being on Disability Income, too risky (could get kick off and need to get back on) and also doesn't give me a lot of flex time.
There's no classes i would be interested in in my region, I'm don't really do art, I don't do music, and also that would only be for children/teens I assume.
Activities like in a previous post, the restaurant's Disney Trivia night, requires a smart device, or in other cases like bowling or mini golf, you need a group of people to play it because it's not fun as a "party of one"
Beside the disabled oriented groups I'm going to get too shortly, the other options in town are either for families, either single-parent-with-kid, or for married-couple with children, or they're for grandparents. Book Clubs seem to be geared to middle-age women and also I doubt any classics would be on a middle-age women book list there like Dickens or Jane Austen.
I am looking into a Neurodivergent adult D&D group but I'm expecting that to be mostly in evenings at the best not morning/afternoons.
Disability oriented groups and the issue with each, number 2 is mostly mom's problems, not mine.
Option one is local (ie in town) sister program to my old day program, I tried it twice back when my day-program was still in person and again in Jan 25. In both locations it was very crowded and it was even more crowded in the new location it's basically is elbow-to-elbow table and only one other room to escape too. You basically have to crawl over others just to get to the bathroom! So basically no space to breath. And when i went in 2025, I had to sit right infront of the door because that was the only seat left as of 9:00am and the program doesn't start until 10am. But at least this one would be flexible
Option 2 (This is the one I'm interested in). Is it in Pickering and they go to Zoo every week/every other week, and on I think its Fridays or Saturdays they go into Toronto sometimes to see sports. They did once go to safari area in our province, and last December they went to the Annie musical up in "bard's town" which I had seen in the summer. Mom doesn't like this because outside of (Disabled Summer Camper) and (woman from old day program) she "doesn't think i would fit in" because the others beside the two previously mentioned, seem to be severely disabled. Her other question of concern is that she's thinks a privately run group is more questionable then a public run not-for-profit group like the old day program/its sister program, and the last option
Last option
The last option is Participation House's group I don't know what they do on normal Mondays but this Monday they're cleaning up because of Earth Week. On Tuesday & Thursday they volunteer and I already volunteer enough between my once-a-week volunteer job at the church, ushering Mom's plays and also helping at Bible Camp. Not to mention eventually I'm going to add something else to that list also at church. Friday's they do exercise days, so swimming, and bowling. The only day they seem to be in one location is on Wednesday which I wouldn't be able to attend because I choose that day to go to work mostly. Not to mention no flexibility since I have to commit according to what I heard previously for 3 months. Also there's doesn't seem to be any "field trips" into Toronto, its mostly stay-in-the-region mostly. And that's so boring when I'm already live and travel through the region
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At fruit Mom didn't like me 'polishing" about Dad and then we had an argument she said "You need to find something to do you don't want to do the sister program to (day program)" (I can't seem to get it through her head, it was like Christmas of 2005 when we're having a family get together at her brother's and there were 20 people there all together between the 3 sets of parents, the one set of grandparents, 2 sets of cousin partners, and one set of adults with no children, 6 single folks, )
and when I pointed out about the Pickwick Program, Mom said something about "you wouldn't fit in" despite me mentioning DSC person and woman from day program. that "everyone else seems to be more severely disabled" and also "she has questions about the program being privately owned vs. public run by groups and not for profit.
I didn't mention I didn't really want to do the other program because they don't seem to be in one place except on maybe Wednesdays which I wouldn't be able to go too. And serious if you volunteer like every week at church, and then do extra volunteering at church-ushering or summer's Bible camp, would you really want to be volunteering elsewhere as well? Which is what they'll would be doing on Tuesday & Thursdays. I mean sure it would get me out of the house. I don't know where they go swimming, but mostly they seem to stick in our region and I would rather have the options of travelling outside of the region with a group.
I used to have another problem about local groups (ie stimga about being disabled and also what I like to call "Harriet Potter") but I'm don't really care about it anymore since I could run into people anywhere as I discovered on Sunday when I ran into a school mate
This isn't the first time I was looking for other groups. I also was looking when I still had day-program and bowling during 2017-2019. And the only thing that has changed is that there's D&D group for Neurodivergent adults.
I'm also getting two conflicting pieces of information, the social group says they only stay in Durian Region due to time limits, and needing to use Durian Region Transit and have to be back at home base by "school end" time ie 3-4pm.
But the Annual Impact report says 2023-2024 says they can go to these places:
a end-of-summer fair
a repltie house
Toronto zoo
Toronto's Aquarim
a Lego land
some tourist thing called Big apple
a willow tree farm
and some other kind of farm
and something about jungle cat world,
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only one out of the 9 things is in town. All the others are outside of town and 3 of them are in Toronto
Events:
MLB
Hockey games
Bocce tournaments
Local fairs
Holiday markets
social oppurnties
community Partication programs
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don't know about the rest of them but MLB game would definitely be in Toronto.
and Trips:
Wonderland (amusement park)
Ski resort,
Ottawa
Niagara Falls
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all of these are not in either Toronto or DR.
So it's annoying I do'nt have a lot of options of groups for me to participate in. Espciallly when Option C is giving me conflicting information.