Most 24-year-olds are trying to figure out what they want out of life.
Alanna Simone is trying to work out whether to pull her autistic toddler out of his occupational therapy appointments to fund speech pathology sessions.
Her three-and-a-half-year-old, Harrison, exists in a world of his own.
It's a juggling act trying to spread out government funding to best manage his needs and Ms Simone says it's about taking small steps at a time and doing what you can.
"It's hard but I don't know any different," she told AAP.
"I'll do what I have to."
Ms Simone is in the process of working out her plan for Harrison's NDIS funding. Despite the complexity she believes the scheme will help her family.
But she admits working out what he'll need is confronting.
"You deal with the situation now but when you actually think about it in the long run it's not going to change," she told AAP.
"You've got to make sure you do it properly because it's for a long time."
Helping her through the process is Tamara VanAntwerpen, chief executive of the Luke Priddis Foundation which helps kids with autism spectrum disorder in western Sydney.
The foundation runs play groups for autistic children aged two to six and their parents.
"It's a chance for parents to come and sit with other parents that are going through the same struggles they are," Ms VanAntwerpen told AAP.
"To vent, to share, to educate."
Ms VanAntwerpen was one of several ambitious women to meet Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Emu Plains on Wednesday, as he swept through on day three of his election campaign.
She's concerned there's a lack of education for autistic children in western Sydney and raised the issue with the prime minister.
"I've got parents who are being forced to home-school their children because they can't get a placement," she told AAP after meeting with Mr Turnbull.
"That's just wrong."
For her efforts, she landed a meeting with Education Minister Simon Birmingham to discuss setting up a school for autistic students - for which she's already scoping out potential locations.
In the meantime, Ms VanAntwerpen is building western Sydney's first centre for autism.
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