So w- how has that helped Brad and, you know, him to be the man that he has become?

Yeah.

Well, without NDIS, Bradley still would've been living at home.

Bradley wouldn't have choice and control because he wouldn't wanna be here.

I'm positive he would've got behaviors, like serious behaviors, because we weren't listening to him.

What has the NDIS done for him since they've been part of his support team? They've allowed a man with challenges to go in his own home, find his identity, find his path in life, and it's all just been so positive with him.

Without NDIS, we wouldn't ...

Mm

yeah and I love that you know he respects you and and you respect him but I think you can only respect another person as much as you respect yourself

hundred percent everything starts well for me in my experience everything started with me like yeah yeah i didn't didn't respect myself i didn't i just i guess i just yeah i didn't respect i had no self no self-leadership feelings and emotions were gone disconnected It was easier to disconnect from my feelings and emotion and squash it than to deal with it because it was so many years, so many feelings and emotions, and it just kept coming.

But, yeah, self and self-leadership for me.

And then if I show that, then every encounter for me is going to be a positive one to a degree because I bring my best self to that.

Whereas before, yeah, I didn't even...

I remember sitting in this, because I'd done a course, a DBT course, and I remember sitting in the course and it's like, they said about values, like in the course, and I'm like, values, you know, like, oh, I value my car, I value, you know, the things out there and everything like that.

And I'm like, it just confused me.

It's just,