Caroline Foran

I've been through it twice in that way I can't for a third time be like throw him in and hope for the best because I know my child and I know what he needs and I have to advocate for that but I just don't see how in a mainstream environment where at the moment the schools are so stretched the supports are not there like we've all heard all the stuff with the

Yeah, like it's, I know my kid would need like a one, he'd need his own person, like a he person, like a roving SNA wouldn't be any use to him because especially because of the PDA, like someone coming in and saying, oh, you're upset.

Come on.

That's a demand to him.

He's going to, that's not going to work for him.

So he needs like a real relationship with someone from the get go.

So I don't really know what it's going to look like.

And there are schools now that are popping up, that are opening up to cater to the vast amount of kids that are like this and need a different system.

I ask myself all that time and I say to my husband regularly, like, how would our little guy have managed in any other family in a different time and a different generation where it was just like... I mean, I never...

I questioned not going to school.

I just, you get up, get in.

Like it wasn't, I don't even remember feeling like it was even an option that I could say I'm not feeling like it today.

It was like, unless you, your head was hanging off.

Oh yeah, I know.

And I coped fine.

Well, sorry, I coped fine.

But as we'll get to, I had very severe anxiety, which is probably...

because I maybe couldn't articulate certain things and I never felt well, which we'll get to.

Have you been diagnosed with autism at all?

No.