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He try to do the autistic school for the support care also can't, go to retarded one also can't, go to handicap one also can't, go to normal school also can't, cannot. What can we do? So I and my husband he ask,"what happened?" Like this, "No school for him?"

So after that my husband take this son and go back to Malaysia for study. I look after the 3 other children here. After my son go to Malaysia he OK. I think it is the language also is better, and then after that he can go to school. Because he can't go straight away to the lowest grade, he straight away go into school there, he try already here a few years, so when he finished here he went to Chinese Year 3.

I say, "How can he drop to Year 3?" And they say he must learn faster in Malaysia, so can't do anything. I must accept he just drop there, after my husband take him there. And after that everything is OK, he can write, talk, and can write, he is not bad! I talk to the Education Department, because we are separated while they are in Malaysia you see, and then this is not good for the family. So my husband is so worrying about me and I also worry about him. After that he can go to study there for about 1 year plus. Oh, he is quite steady and then we talk to the support school in Ballaura. After that he can continue learning until Year 8.

For Year 8 he must transfer to High School, so he transfer to High School Ballajura School. Sometime he also chase the teacher if he is not happy. When there are no classes he is also screaming! Until the lecturer comes! He cannot cannot stay because there is other children, so he cannot stay so, he transfer Gleny Newton. Gleny Newton is in Bell Garden. So from then he is quite happy, then until he is Year 12. He finish!

But he was also, but he was also so tense. Now he has got the Ed teacher to support him, but before that, when he talk, he was only about 6 years old when he only just start to talking. He call mummy and after that he come here and he get the support teacher, teach him the eyes contact and everything, and then he learn very fast, after they finished Year 12 they go to Year 13, because the support group is Year 13.

After that he finished the School he go to West Care factory to work. He work about 2 years, and then I move house to South Perth, in Karrawarra here, and then he got no job. And I have to find for him, because I don't know this, about this Carer Group, so I got to find the autistic, help for the autistic. Then they told me when I move here, I would be able to find a job for him, and when I move here they would help find a job for him.

So after I move here he find a job in a bank. Now he is working in bank. It is a permanent job, and he studies one day a week in TAFE. He can go by bus to go to work, and finish the work, then when my husband go back home, he call on my husband.

In the bank he separates the bank cheques and the cash, sometime he do the typing, he can type in the computer.

When he couldn't talk, he would scream and scream and scream until my husband get very big headache from this son!! I didn't want any more children!! I had another two to look after, and then the last one was born here.

The weather changed when I come here and I had no sickness. Then, after I had been in Australia I thought I was very lucky because I had menopause. Four month after I came here I wondered, why are these four months different? So I went to the doctor to check, to see if I got menopause or not, and he say I got pregnant! I am very happy, but my husband don't know whether to cry, or laugh. I was 37. But because my grandmum 38 and she no more bleeding, so I thought I had followed my grandmum.

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