Moana Hope
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Not possible.
Every day she'd come in and go, anything back from the resume?
Could I have a job yet?
One day she said something to me that she's never said to me in her life and that was,
What's wrong with me?
Why can't I be like everybody else?
And she's never in her whole life said those things, ever.
And it always makes me tear up when I talk about it because it broke my absolute heart that she felt like something was wrong with her for the first time.
Oh, my God, I'm going to cry.
And it was that moment where she was like really questioned that she was different and I think short term after that she tried to commit suicide because she just didn't feel like she belonged here anymore.
And then she was running away and we had to keep getting police involved and we found her in bloody Frankston, Shepparton and...
It was really scary.
And then I just said to my mom, I go, we have to just try and fast track this independent living and give her something because nobody's going to hire her.
So we just got NDIS involved, applied for NDIS to get independent living.
We eventually got it approved and we just got her therapy.
It took me two and a half years to find her a really good independent living and then we got her one and now she lives in one and she's as happy as a pig and she β
So much so I'll call and go, let's go to the movies.
She's like, nah, I'm hanging out with my friend.
She's got a roommate who's her friend, which I won't say her roommate's name, but she's like, I'm with my roommate.
No.