Chosen In Every Lifetime: Sibling Love, Institutionalisation and the Fight for Ewan with Ruby Peace

Ruby describes herself first and foremost as the little sister of her big brother Ewan, who is profoundly autistic, non-speaking, and has a severe learning disability. In this episode of *This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast*, Ruby joins Dr Emma Offord to talk about a devotion that has shaped her whole life, and a system that has repeatedly let her family down.Ruby shares what it meant to lose her closest companion to residential school at seven, to learn to be let down, and to live inside a hypervigilance that never really switches off. She speaks with rare honesty about the 454 days Ewan spent in a psychiatric hospital, the fight to bring him home, and finding her own identity beyond being his shadow.This is a conversation about love that carries fear, and fear that never once looks like resentment. A story for anyone who has ever had to hold two things true at once.Follow Ruby on [her Instagram account here](https://www.instagram.com/ewenandme/).Find out more at divergentlife.co.uk. This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast.