Thank you for posting this! I haven’t been able to catch the shows the last couple of months because of school (this is the last week of the semester, yay!). This semester has been crazy, but next semester should be easy and then I’ll be done.
My 15-year-old daughter has borderline low-functioning autism, which is exactly like Ana said; since she was a toddler she has had a lot of trouble controlling her emotions and socializing and has had a difficult time with public schools. She has tried public school every year because she wanted to make friends and the schools always promise to help, but it has never worked out for more than a month or two (except for preschool and second grade) because they never came close to holding up their end of the bargain. She has been bullied and/or assaulted at school each time she’s tried to go. I have always stayed home with her and her older brother, and she and I have done school online. My daughter is seriously brilliant and absolutely beautiful, and I have almost lost her because of shit insurance companies. Throughout the years, different insurance companies have denied providers, treatments, and medications and increased our family’s rates numerous times, doubling them twice in just the last few years. Denying her the care she needs has resulted in her becoming so depressed that she has made plans numerous times in the past, since she was seven years old, to kill herself. Luckily, I have found out, or she has told me about these plans, and we got her admitted into mental health facilities each time. Her father and I are not together, but we live together to afford her care and to allow me to stay home with her. Needless to say, the healthcare she needs is costly and time-consuming, but she needs it to function and want to live so I’ll do anything to get it for her. The health insurance and healthcare systems are broken. We all deserve universal healthcare, especially our children.