Paradox of Competence
The paradox of competence describes situations where a child or parent appears capable enough that systems underestimate their support needs. Masking, verbal skill, academic ability, or articulate advocacy can be used to deny help until crisis makes need undeniable.
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Iatrogenic harm and the parent advocate: how school systems produce disability in the families they fail
The body keeps the account even when the institution refuses to. What the school system produced in the parent who spent years trying to hold it accountable is not caregiver burden — a word that belongs to the person carrying it — but iatrogenic harm: specific, dated, attributable, and fully known to the institutions that…