The recent civil and procedural legislative changes to support people with disabilities aim to modify the approach to their right to make decisions. This new approach is intended to be more accurate and address situations that, until now, have been overlooked or ignored, such as the fact that people with disabilities have the right to make their own decisions.

There is no doubt that people with mental health problems or intellectual disabilities are still subjected to severe discrimination worldwide, varying according to each country's level of democratic development. Despite progress made in many countries, prejudice, violence, social exclusion and segregation, abuses in treatment, and attacks on their capacity to make decisions are still far too common.

Cristina Arjona Gargallo, social worker and guardianship representative, and Cristina Mañas Comas, user of the Fundació Germà Tomàs Canet share their mutual experience and bond through this figure that aims to preserve the capacity to act of people and offers them support in all or some spheres of their life, according to the person considers that they need it.