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“I actually caught myself back there saying ‘Ali and Aleeah would be out there surfing’ and I was like [makes face]. I about cried a little bit but things like that,” she confessed. Leah tries to stay positive, reminding herself, “Then I’m like, ‘No, she’ll be cheering for her sister.’ You know? It’s okay.”
However, it has been more difficult lately. Leah shares, “She’s been getting really really tired, needing her wheelchair more.” Leah points out the bright side, “Ali really likes her aide at school. I really like her aide. I just feel like she always looks out for Ali’s best interest.”
After worrying about Ali from Hawaii, Leah is thrilled to return home in last week’s episode. In the car with her girls, Leah shares that Ali lost her aide despite the help that it has given her in the classroom.
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“The principal just told me that they’re dropping Ali’s aide. For no reason whatsoever,” Leah divulges. Gracie asks what that means and Leah responds, “It means she won’t have the aide anymore.”
“It’s the school district’s fault,” Leah explains. “They don’t wanna pay for Ali to have an aide.”
She steps out of the car because “the girls are picking up” on her energy.
She rants to her producer, “There was a meeting that established that Ali needed an aide…She wouldn’t be able to function and learn if it wasn’t for the aide.”
On reddit, FridasFlowers39 wrote, “On this weeks episode I thought it was very inappropriate to discuss the issue of Ali’s aide with the girlses [sic] in the car.” They point out, “Even Gracie who often appears bored of Leah’s platitudes and therapy talk seemed concerned.”