💬 Autistic children like my son need specialist schools where they can be celebrated
I can’t speculate as to why so many more children are being diagnosed, but until I had Eddie I would have said I was in favour of. They will one day need to live and work in our fractured society and other children need to learn how to accept them, I thought.
Georgina Fuller’s son Eddie, 10, who has autism – ‘the message he’s getting from the outside world is that there’s something wrong with him’ Yet seeing how much Eddie has struggled with almost every aspect of life at his small village primary school near our home on the edge of the Cotswolds, from trying to access learning in a class of 30 children to navigating a packed playground, alongside being called “brain damaged” on more than one occasion by one child, I’ve changed my stance on that.
As he has got older, Eddie has also become painfully aware that he is not like his peers. Although we try to present the fact that he is “differently wired” as a positive thing, the message he is getting from the outside world is that there is something wrong with him. “Why can’t I go to a school where people understand me and are like me?” he says.
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