Twins
The experience of parenting twins in a punishing education system—especially when both children are disabled or neurodivergent or both—reveals the institutional limits of recognition, compassion, and complexity. When siblings arrive with simultaneous needs, the system often collapses them into one narrative, one support plan, one allocation of care. This tag gathers writing about the unique forms of erasure, containment, and exhaustion that families of twins face in schools shaped by manufactured austerity. It holds the grief of being asked to choose, the pain of watching one child masked as the other explodes, and the structural refusal to see both as fully human at once.
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Double the love, double the discrimination
Public education systems punish families of multiples by forcing impossible choices between their children—often withholding support until one child reaches visible crisis, while the other’s suffering is quietly disregarded. The statistical reality schools refuse to prepare for Schools are rarely prepared for what families of multiples often bring to the classroom: These families often arrive…
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Drawn and quartered: Sibling trauma, institutional containment, and the erasure of care for families with multiples
When you are the parent of twins—especially autistic/ADHD twins—you learn very quickly that the education system can’t hold both of them at once. Support is rationed. Attention is rationed. Empathy is rationed. The school system does not say this aloud, of course. It claims to treat every child as an individual. But as soon as…
