Yet again, if I was reading her captions for the first time, I would think she was describing a child with very very high care needs.
Guess what? I don’t think my son would cope with after school club either. After a full day at school he can be pretty wrung out. They call it restraint collapse don’t they? An autistic kid has to work so hard at dealing with the overwhelm of the school environment. It makes complete sense that they need a quiet, calm environment after school.
Of course L has to shout that he needs a 1-1 just like he does at breakfast club. Is that really meeting his needs though? It doesn’t sound like he needs intense adult supervision, he just needs to be somewhere chilled and quiet.
I totally get the impossibility of juggling full time work and wraparound care as a single mother to an autistic kid. I’m a SAHM precisely because I can’t juggle it.