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Existing between the lines: my child's 'invisible disability'

I can’t spend any more time fixing what’s ‘wrong’ about this ‘invisible disability’ so I’ll focus on what’s right

The wipers groan across the windscreen. We are stuck in heavy rain at the train tracks. One train goes by and then another. It’s Saturday morning in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs and we are all late for basketball, or soccer, or footy, or ballet. Frustration pierces the sanctity of our car.

“Mum,” says the muffled voice from the back, coming from beneath her burgundy puffer jacket cocoon. “This song is about an affair.” On the radio is the 1979 hit Escape by Rupert Holmes.

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Continue reading... March 31, 2018 at 04:51AM

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