Gracie E

Really struggling at the moment with keeping my youngest son safe. I've had to update all the cupboard locks again, add more locks to windows and garden gates, he can escape his reins and I've bought countless different ones to try as he works out how to get out really quickly. Nursery have referred him to paediatrics for developmental delays and told me to contact the dla for help for him. Which I did.

I opened the forms and just sat and cried. Why is getting help so bloody hard? I'm still waiting for a date for my own pip tribunal. Luckily I have therapy weekly through a specialised provision for adults with autism and she suggested contacting the Disability Living place where I live. So I did. And it was a game changer. The lady I spoke with on the phone was incredible. She arranged a time that we could sit down together and helped me fill in the forms for my son. Honestly she just took almost 2 hours out of her busy schedule to help me and I was so incredibly grateful.

It's services like these that are non existent or so underfunded that they are hard to access but I was so lucky and the lady there was a diamond