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Toucan parent, author and former teacher, Gemma Chapple has written the second part of her blog for us, a raw and honest account of her family’s journey through autistic burnout. A story of school trauma, healing and recovery.

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A must-read for any parents of children who are struggling to attend school or suffering from burnout.

Teacher, author and Toucan Parent Gemma Chapple has written a brilliant blog post for us this week on what it’s like when your child can’t go to school. Her son stopped attending in year two and they have been on an incredible journey since.

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Autistic Burnout Recovery: A Parent's Lived Experience Supporting a Child It was hard to know what was happening when our young son could no longer attend school. It wasn't long before he was unable to leave the house. Even to do the things that he had previously enjoyed. He was deep in autistic burnout. It was scary and no-one was coming to help. I immersed myself in...

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Highly recommended!!! This book explained everything when extreme burnout hit us hard. Thank you .gobbel

My little possum 🥰 Highly recommend looking up Robyn Gobbel. She has a book, podcasts and you can sign up for emails. She explains everything in such an easy to understand way, how trauma and in fact our everyday lives, affect the nervous system through the possum, the watchdog and the owl pathways. I designed this illustration to help my son understand what was happening. It helped me hugely too. He follows the possum pathway, he freezes, fawns, flops, plays dead, shuts down, withdraws…he takes flight and fights too but generally saves these for his caregivers 😔

Love this 🥰😔🤗

“Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness yet become something beautiful” Unkown 🤞