Autism & Everyday Life
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Overcoming Adversity
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≻: Overcoming AdversityMy fae has shown great tenacity in the face of setbacks this year. Some are big, some were small, some…
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Don’t assume anything
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≻: Don’t assume anythingTrying to figure out what the hell to do with my daughter over the summer holiday has had me tearing…
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The balance between excited and exhausted
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≻: The balance between excited and exhaustedOur fae has more energy than your average 6 year old. I know that all parents say that. But when…
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Meltdown Mayhem
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≻: Meltdown MayhemOur fae is normally quite well regulated and doesn’t need much input in terms of her emotional regulation. The past…
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Rules are rules for everyone
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≻: Rules are rules for everyoneRules are rules for everyone. Our fae recently put her grandmother in ‘timeout’ for ‘17’. 17 what I’m not too…
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Ostrich Time
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≻: Ostrich TimeI haven’t gone mad. Well.. I think I haven’t, but I have begun to wonder about the rest of my…
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Oh Routine how I miss thee
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≻: Oh Routine how I miss theeIt’s the first day back at school for my fae today. Routine is being re-established after the school breaks. Oh,…
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Parenting in easy mode
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≻: Parenting in easy modeThere is a “joke” that regularly makes the rounds online: you don’t know tired unless you’re ’parent tired’. Every time…
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Flight of the butterfly part 2
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≻: Flight of the butterfly part 2So, I meant to write this update some time ago, but life happened and got in the way. Somehow, my…
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Wilful Ignorance
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≻: Wilful IgnoranceI recently found something that really got my goat. In fact after several days I am still wound up enough…
