Dear Parents of Neurotypical Children I wake up in the morning and I listen to the sounds in my house. I wait, I listen. I’m waiting to hear with how much jarring force the doorknob is twisted. How heavy the thump of the footsteps are as my daughter wakes up. These sounds are the barometer by which I …
Pathological Demand Avoidance Awareness Day 2018 – Our Journey to diagnosis
Tuesday, 20 December 2016 Today I hit the wall. The wall won and I had a full-scale meltdown. One to rival the intensity of the meltdowns my daughter rewards us with on a (far too) regular basis. Later in the afternoon, I sat down to plan a Christmas cookie baking session with my two offspring to realise that, quite frankly, …
Don’t Look at Me with that Face
This week, 26 March to 2 April 2018 is World Autism Awareness week. A week in which the National Autistic Society (NAS) asks people to get involved in fundraising to transform lives and challenge perceptions about autism. I have created a slogan t-shirt from which £5 of the profit from each t-shirt will be donated to the NAS to help …
