Dear Daughter, When I told you that you would be able to choose what you had for dinner as soon as you stopped shouting at daddy and me and started behaving my expectation was for you to start behaving. It was not for you to fall to the floor and wail “I’m never going toContinue reading “Notes to my daughter”
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Getting help and support
Getting help and support. When our daughter was first diagnosed with autism, I was given a piece of paper with a list of barely-legible links that had been cut and pasted off the internet and were all over a line long. None of these links actually stated what they were to, and only half ofContinue reading “Getting help and support”
Glossary of terms
Autistic meltdown: when an autistic person is struggling to process too much information at one time leading to feelings of high anxiety and stress. Often linked to times where they have had to mask or been flooded with sensory input. They will lose complete control of their behaviour and it is often mistaken for aContinue reading “Glossary of terms”
Raising the Modern Fae
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 quirkyContinue reading “Raising the Modern Fae”
Raising the Modern Fae 