They said yes

A brief interlude from the good stuff.

Last week we were playing catch at the park.

B was loving the game when he saw the tree.

He turned, stopped playing and spent several minutes facinated with the bark and the texture. A real autistic moment.

And it's something you can't ignore. No matter how determined I am that we will do all the normal things, it breaks through. Like the meltdown he had a Quarry Bank that I didn't write about.

Before half term there were yet more forms to fill in to ask for Statutory Assessment of Benjamin's needs at school. There was another letter to write and I spent the afternoon sniffing as I put down on paper yet again all the things that he can't do and I faced just how different he is to the other children.

Local Authorities don't like to do Stat Assess. It costs them a couple of thousand pounds to do, and they will do pretty much anything to avoid it. I was expecting a no and was ready to then apeal against the decision. But on Saturday a letter came. It was a yes.

The process is a set one, they have to collect all the evidence by the 3rd August. There will be more appointments for B. I will have another form to do (and this one will get the full treatment). If we are sucessful B will get a statement. This is so important. We have been let down so many times. It feels like one last push....