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I got told that I only had 10% chance of working. So I wasn't really given much hope until, luckily enough, I came to My Life My Choice. How it happened was I was at a bus training group.

I was helping them out. I wasn't really doing like, the work. I was just helping out. So, they were like, right, so you could do the travel training. And I was like, cool. I can be a travel trainer.

So that's how it started. And then I just went from there, all way up. And now I'm a consultant and kicking behind.

So My Life My Choice is a self advocacy charity who is to do with learning disabilities and we work with people with learning disabilities. So what it means to me is pretty much, without My Life My Choice, I would still be on the computer 24/7, doing nothing.

So the jobs I do with My Life My Choice are as a consultant because I'm now employed by My Choice, so I'm a staff member. I do gig buddying, which is basically taking someone out who is not going out socially. And we take them out socially to gigs, or museums, or theatre, or things like that.

We also do travel buddying, which is helping the person travel independently whether that's by train, or by bus, or walking, even. And we also do care and treatment reviews, which is going into assessment treatment units or locked-up units and helping the person try and get out back into the community. Most of the people I've actually travel trained, actually, I work with. So it's like they always come up to me and their confidence have completely shot through the roof.

We've just got our new gig buddy colleague in. So she will be running the reigns. And hopefully soon enough, we'll be out, and socialising, and causing mayhem.