The Things We Don't Say Out Loud - Burnt Out Mums Club Emergency Meeting

Ever walk away from a conversation with more questions than answers? This is the place for you. Welcome to this week's meeting of the Burnt Out Mums Club.School holidays mean one thing: actual mum catch-ups. Not play dates where you spend the whole time refereeing — real conversations, over coffee, without small people interrupting every thirty seconds.This week, Alison comes to the podcast with a lot to unpack. Two catch-ups, two very different conversations, and one question she can't stop thinking about. When you finally get a diagnosis for your kid — do you tell the school? Do you tell anyone? And what happens when the answer is not yet, and probably not for a while?They dig into why sharing a diagnosis can feel so loaded, why trust doesn't come easily to a lot of autistic parents, and why the parents who are having the hardest time advocating for their kids might actually be the ones who need the most support themselves.Then there's the medication conversation. Does your child know who they are without it? Does medicating a kid mean toning them down to fit a world that wasn't built for them? And what happens when two spicy kids who are usually best friends suddenly find that one of them medicated and one of them not is a combination that's just a bit much?No neat answers here — just two friends asking the questions that a lot of parents are quietly sitting with, and not quite saying out loud.