Earlier this week we made the decision to pull our son out of his swimming lessons. He has always loved water and has been going to lessons at our local leisure centre for over a…
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Today marks two years since Max was diagnosed with ASD and so I felt like now was a good time to sit down and write a little update about the past year. I did write…
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Last year I wrote a post about telling Max that he is different and how we would go about doing that. It’s a tough one because he was only five when he was diagnosed and…
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I don’t really talk to any of the mums at my sons school. I am the unsociable school mum. I’ve always been pretty quiet and I like to keep myself to myself (she says, whilst…
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How time flies. It’s now been a whole year since my beautiful boy was diagnosed with autism and so I wanted to write about how his diagnosis has affected us, what’s changed and our plans…
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When I first started this blog it was mainly as a place to talk about autism and a place to let off some steam when I felt I was struggling. I blogged my way through…
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I recently discovered a poem; Welcome to Holland written by Emily Kingsley and I wanted to share it with you all. The poem talks about the feelings that parents of a child with disabilities may experience.…
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During the autism workshop that we attended a few weeks ago, they talked a bit about when and how to go about telling children that they have autism. To be honest it wasn’t something I’d…
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A couple of weeks ago we went along to our first autism workshop and although I wasn’t sure what to expect we actually learnt a lot and took away some valuable advice. Me, my mum…
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Since Max’s diagnosis in February nothing has actually changed. We haven’t seen anyone, no appointments, nothing. Life has just carried on as normal. So I was pleased when last week we finally got a visit…
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Since Max’s diagnosis in February I’ve been thinking a lot about ASD and how it can run in families. As far as me and my husband are aware there is no history of autism in…
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