A Weekend of Upgrades | Sheepdog Says

Had an alright week. They aren’t pushing the Spanish, so haven’t been since before Christmas, so the stress about that is a lot less. I’ve been to the college I want to go to for taster sessions this evening (I’ve been to all the open days, my prospective media teacher now knows me by name 😂). I’m still pretty stressed about school, but it’s not too much at the moment, there’s quite a few kids in my year group like me who struggle to attend lessons sometimes and luckily school are quite flexible and have quite a few places available for people who need some time out. Still struggling a bit with the atmosphere of classes in terms of the volume, 2 fire alarms in 2 days are not what I’m after! The rigid definition of hard work/resilience is a real issue, one of the main issues we’ve had in terms of getting support for me is senior leadership saying that I “need to go through it to learn some resilience”, and they seem to have a really hard time understanding that resilience for me is simply getting to school in the first place, and a lot of the time it feels like an excuse to not do anything. Everything needs to be taken in context, and schools don’t seem to be very good at that. Me and my dad got Centre Court tickets for Wimbledon today as well, and it fits perfectly into our train trip, so it couldn’t have been more perfect, and I am so excited, as I’ve been wanting to go for as long as I can remember and I watch it obsessively every year! It’s only the second time ever my dad has got centre court tickets (him and his mate always take each other if either of them get tickets, so he’s been to Wimbledon 12 times!) so he’s stoked as well! Made my day (/year/life)!

I left without any educational qualifications because I was taken out of school at the age of 12 and half in June 1975/1976. It was not because of my behaviour but because of my epilepsy (only had one to two epileptic seizures a year) but due to my undiagnosed autism, undiagnosed dyspraxia, dyslexia and dyspraxia. It took to nearly 3 years to get a home tutor who as not very good and I was sent to a catholic boarding school for epileptic children where I stayed for a year and left two months before my 16th birthday. It held me back a lot in life, never being able to learn to drive and lack of educational qualifications and work experience and social skills which meant I spend most of my working life at Jobclubs, employment training and work experience courses that led no where. My thousands of job speculative letters and emails got me no where. I am 56 with chronic physical and mental health conditions which greatly impair my mobility and health as I have fibromyalgia that affects me very badly and with undiagnosed depression. I was diagnosed with autism at the age of 51 and two years later with fibromyalgia. I am not well enough to work. I would have had more help if I went into a SEN school from an early age than a mainstream school as I could not cope.

The ed physc wont agree to sen school yet it not easy to get like that xxx