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Hi all, I’ve been away for a long time and would like to share with you all what God has been doing in my life in my absence.

When I was last here I received a lot of criticism over the fact that I was taking an organisation to court. Everyone, bar 1, was telling me that it was unChristian and that I was wrong to do so. I felt that people were being very judgemental and weren’t listening to the fact that I felt very strongly that this was what God wanted me to do. So I stopped coming here and carried on down the path.

Anyways, the claim was successful. The organisation capitulated at the informal hearing with the judge and finally accepted that they were in the wrong. As a result of the case, they decided to rewrite their accessiblity policy and retrain all of their staff to ensure what happened to me didn’t happen to anyone else. That’s 65,000 people better equipped to deal with the millions of visitors they get each year. They also paid me a small amount of compensation.

I didn’t hire a lawyer for the case, I couldn’t afford it. I took advice from various disabled rights organisations, prayed a lot and represented myself. The judge commended me on how well I’d done and the fact that I’d had to courage to stand up and be counted. It all go me thinking about how God had given me the skills to deal with such a problem, whereas most people who encounter this type of thing are not able to defend themselves. And the seed that had been planted began to grow……..

I’ve never really understood God’s plan for me. I sometimes felt like he hadn’t got round to coming up with one for me yet. Now I know. I found out last year that I’m autistic. Everything for me is black or white, right or wrong. When something is wrong, I have to stand against it, even when it costs me. I always thought this was a problem I had to overcome, now I can see that it is God’s gift to me. I also am deeply drawn to helping others. Not in a practical way, but in a knowledge way. I’ve always been a person others turn to when they don’t know what to do about their situation with the tax office, their pension, their immigration status etc. But I never saw the gift I had in this. I just did it.

But God has removed the veil from my eyes and now I see the path he has chosen for me. I am now a (mature) law student, focusing on human rights. Something I would never have considered before my case. People from my background are factory workers and waitresses and shop assistants. Not lawyers.

At first I thought I wouldn’t be able to pay for this course. So I had to investigate that first. Turns out a 6 year law degree costs the same as the amount of compensation paid out by a certain organisation when sued for disability discrimination.

God showed me the path and provided everything I needed to walk down it.