Autism is in your genes and isn’t something that can be taken away

There is no ‘one size fits all’ when it comes to autism as every child has a different constellation of disabilities, writes Victora White

THEY will be queueing from midnight next Wednesday night outside St Augustine’s Special School in Blackrock, Co Dublin. All hoping to bag a place in school for their mildly intellectually disabled children.

Even as I write this, I can barely believe it. Parents are being asked to queue up outside the school and will be given numbers. Their children’s applications will be considered in the order of their parents’ numbers, or as St Augustine’s put in writing to the parents, “according to the date and time” of their application.