Choosing Him Every Time: Autistic Burnout, School Trauma and a Life Without School, with Linsey Biggs

In this episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Dr Emma Offord talks with Linsey Biggs, full-time parent carer to three and the voice behind Unschooling Stanley, about the years that led her to take her eldest son out of school entirely.Linsey describes watching her son's distress build until it became impossible to ignore, and the moment she finally trusted what he was telling her over what the school system kept insisting. She talks about recognising her own ADHD and school trauma through his journey, the judgement that came with choosing a different path, and what eight years of unschooling has taught her about trusting children as whole people, not projects to manage.A raw, grounded conversation about crisis, recovery, and what becomes possible when you stop pushing a child to fit a system that was never built for them.Follow Linsey: @unschoolingstanley (https://www.instagram.com/unschoolingstanley/)Divergent Lives: divergentlife.co.ukThis Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast