got these people. i ve got that person, got a tear in there. i made that happen. but i thinkjenny asked me, can you write songs for a musical? and i went, i don t know, i lltry. and the answer was, yeah, i can. i mean, a bit. and then somewhere between then and now, i got better at it. your next choice for this cultural life is the 1997 album, whatever and ever amen, by the american singer songwriter, ben folds. what ben did is gave me hope as what i later described myself as a rock n roll nerd, you know? in that song i say, i always dreamt of being a star, but he learnt piano instead of guitar, which in the 90s doesn t get you very far , because that was my experience. i was deep in the grunge. west australia, in my part of perth in the 90s, was just grunge and i was a pianist doing songs for theatre and stuff and thinking, is there. i mean, obviously i can t sell
that person s got a tear in their eye. i made that happen. but i thinkjenny asked me, can you write songs for a musical? and i went, i don t know, i lltry. and the answer was, yeah, i can. i mean, a bit. and then somewhere between then and now, i got better at it. your next choice for this cultural life is the 1997 album, whatever and ever amen, by the american singer songwriter ben folds. what ben did is gave me hope as what i later described myself as a rock n roll nerd, you know? in that song, i say, i always dreamt of being a star, but he learnt piano instead of guitar, which in the 90s doesn t get you very far because that was my experience. i was deep in the grunge. west australia, in my part of perth in the 90s, was just grunge and i was a pianist doing songs for theatre and stuff and thinking, is there.? i mean, obviously i can t sell records, my band won t go anywhere because, you know, it s too nerdy. and then ben came along,
the problem with my school was that it was so big, and the sen area and staff, there was quite a bit of understaffing and it wasn t, there wasn t enough people to help and just too many kids to deal with. in total, matty missed around 18 months of school. his mum saw his mental health gradually deteriorate. having panic attacks, unable to get in the car, unable to go to school, it was really tough for both of us, for all of us, really. because he was desperate to go to school. he really wanted to be in school and he kept saying, i lltry again, mum, i ll try really hard. but i think maybe people just don t understand about mental health and anxiety in particular is that it s like any health problem. if you cannot do something, you cannot do something and no amount of trying to think yourself out of it is going to make any difference to that. there are no official figures for how many children are missing