Illness is other people. Really sick people, not me.
I have been a teacher for 16 years and an AS sufferer for 28 years. I have other roles in life; husband, father, brother and I hope, friend but my sick-role is finally catching up with my work-role or vice versa? As with all big life events it has made me stop and question things and ultimately question myself. I share these things not for sympathy but in the hope that the questions I am asking are the right ones for us all, it has just taken me to a while to get here.
I have been a teacher for so long and teaching is such a deep part of my psyche that it is often difficult to disentangle one from the other. I have ‘lived’ the pace of the school year as a child, adolescent, student and as a professional…
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