I am hopeless at advocating. I accidentally offend people and find it really stressful. Part of the reason for this according to the counsellor I saw a few years ago is i have learned helplessness - guess why!

That said ds7 is not unhappy at school. Underchallenged in maths and science and overwhelmed in composition but not unhappy. He does say he wants to be like the other kids but he thinks if he wasn't gf, didn't have problems with his bowels and something elseif that nature he would be just like other kids.