*This is a guest post* The Internet is filled with people raving about their weighted blanket and how it allegedly improves their health. Many people from Canada have bought one to see whether it would…
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April is Autism Awareness Month and to mark the occasion I thought I would finally publish this blog post that has been sat in my drafts for months now… As most of you will know,…
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Back in November last year we went to Disneyland Paris. Our son, Max has Asperger Syndrome and if it wasn’t for Disneyland’s green card the trip could well have been a complete disaster. If you…
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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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Well, that’s half term done and it has been challenging to say the least! Our boy has really been pushing the boundaries with his behaviour, last weekend and the early part of the week was pretty awful.…
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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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