During the Victorian times, and before it was often thought that fairies stole young children and replaced them with their own fairy children. These fairy children, although identical in appearance to the original child often behaved in a way that was considered inappropriate. There was a range of these behaviours that scaled from slightly quirky in a way that would often result in a child being labelled troubled and in need of discipline; to them being confined to asylums or bedlam.
These days we know that a lot of these children were not insane or imbeciles as they were labelled and they were not troubled. A lot were in fact neuro-divergent. They were definitely not children of the fairies. My daughter is autistic.
She was when I started this blog 4, she didn’t talk but can count. She loves climbing and finding new and interesting ways to try to launch herself to her death. My full-time job is preventing these attempts from coming to fruition.
I have begun to document our adventures here, some of it because it’s funny, some because it’s useful information that I do not want to forget. Mostly because I need somewhere to vent my frustrations before I go insane.
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Raising the Modern Fae 