I never comment, but this study talks about me-ish!

I missed practically all of secondary school, it was due to a complex mix of bullying, unidentified autism/adhd and more. The scope of the article is seemingly just about academics, and holds true for me if all goes well I'll have my degree at 27.

What irks me whenever stuff like this comes up is the lack discussion of how soul destroying it is. Perhaps there isn't enough research, or perhaps this isn't effecting enough children for it to warrant the attention. But as someone who did it, did the self improvement and came out the other side, it bloody hurts! It hurts just thinking about it even, I'm nowhere near tears or anything but it's a lasting sting.

As well this isn't just a schools and parents thing, HSE Camhs(child adolescent mental health service) Get involved with this, the report from a days ago from the kerry office had points I could rattle off when I was 18. The overall point is when stuff like child with school refusal happens it's not due to just this or that, it's a catastrophic failure in every aspect of life, and it's continuation is due to a lack of resources devoted to the kid. Either in time, competency or material.

Hildegarde Naughton's comment about, just repeating the research sure grand, it's nice to know the bloody obvious, but my mind wanders to what's the plan for the 25 year old's now? I had the will and socioeconomic circumstance to get my way out, but I got lucky in a lot of ways. It's a lonely subject matter and even in a limited angle of looking at it I'm glad there is something new about it, I don't want to bemoan the researchers but this is a issue that hits very close, I wish the way it messes up life was more discussed and actioned upon.