Shane Jacobson

And when I got told that, I did that.

If I came back out without my socks and my shoes on, my parents would go, mate, I'm not going to ask again.

And I'd be sent back in the room.

Imagine if I didn't have the diagnosis and I hadn't been a parent a few times over and realised these little things take a while to teach.

And it doesn't matter if you've got a busy day or you had a shit one yesterday.

They need to hear it calmly and consistently through caring eyes for it really to sink.

Imagine if he was number one.

It's made me a better teacher.

It's made me a better parent.

Every kid made me a better parent.

And Jackson's made me.

I reckon I've finally almost got somewhere near doing it roughly right.

But if he was my first, I would have destroyed it.

I know it.

I hate admitting it.

I would have been terrible at it.

I'd be yelling at a kid that doesn't even know why he hasn't put his socks and shoes on.

He used to turn up – like he couldn't – so the idea of what a face was doing –

So, I mean, he got trained at all this.

We've had, you know, a lot of intervention in OT.