
26/09/2025
Proof that when you are completely burnt out, overwhelmed and stressed your capacity is completely diminished 😢
I know this. I know my child.
Making the call to pull her from mainstream Education for the rest of the year has been the best decision 🙏🏼🙌🏼
In the few weeks since deciding this is best for her mental health it has already started to show… she’s been able to reflect that she feels like a weight has been lifted.
This week she has attended a Theatre group where we were welcomed with open arms by the most accepting community 🫶🏼 and today she attended her Orientation for Happy Paws, Happy Hearts- a program that has been on the cards for some time & now she’s old enough to attend.
There’s more to learning than curriculum education. When you feel like you have to fit, but you don’t, you don’t feel like you belong and are constantly in a state of stress your brain cannot learn, then when you add in neurodivergence, especially in a system that is only as accommodating as they see necessary 🫣 well look, it just doesn’t work!
It’s a constant battle of advocacy and overwhelm with minimal positive outcomes.
These glimmers of positivity give us so much hope ❤️
Term 4 is going to look very different for Betsy and us.
I urge you to make the change if your child is unhappy, chronically stressed and completely burnt out. I live with tegret for not doing it sooner.
We aren’t privileged to have been able to make this change, it’s taken sacrifice and huge adjustments and big life changes by us all, but I know for a fact that I’m not prepared to jeopardise my child’s mental wellbeing so she fits into mainstream education 🔥🙌🏼