Reflections
You might be doing it wrong.
Many parents and educators will often witness behaviour from neurodivergent people and find it baffling or confusing because they’re unable to connect it to a particular and recent event.
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PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) and villains.
Screens, screens, screeeeeens!
Her behaviour was unacceptable.
(Shared with permission from my adult daughter.)
Cleaning out the shed today, I found a box of things collected since my teens.
I felt such sadness when I found this.
I was 18 when my first...
The diversity of resilience.
Ahhh, resilience.
The word "resilience" and "resilient" sit uncomfortably for me.
I've seen it used for belittling, dismissing, gaslighting, invalidating and bullying more than I've seen it used for...
Autistic children, school and burnout.
My girls love school.
They'd push through absolutely anything to be there.
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Autism & Addiction: My Story
When you think of a person who is drug and/or alcohol addicted, know that if those layers were peeled away, you might very well discover an autistic person.
Drugs...
There is no “Imperfection” in Human Being and Doing
There is no “imperfection” in human being and doing.
We are all just as we are in the name of diversity; we all serve to teach and learn from one another.
In biodiversity, the forest...
Those Children were the Canaries in the Coal Mine
..and so many of the world's children gradually, slowly but surely, became disengaged and disconnected; never coming out from their safe spaces, no longer connecting with their families.
Built for a...
Dealing with my Sensory Sensitivities
"I love you. And I love you. I love you all. It's not anyone's fault that Mummy is upset. It's because I'm autistic, and I've had to touch kiwi fruit and mandarines and the juice has got on my skin...
