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Reflections

Essays from Kristy Forbes exploring PDA, autistic experience, parenting, identity, care, systems and the ordinary moments that shape family life.

Celebrating when clients move on

Apr 10, 2022

Around six months ago, an email was forwarded to me by our company manager from a client, letting me know that after just over a year with me, they were moving on.

I felt a pang of panic, and a touch of sadness that I’d...

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Healing the child behind the parent

Apr 08, 2022

This morning in therapy I took a deep dive, head first into some pretty challenging work on myself.

As many will know, I’m transparent in the ways in which I share particular aspects of my life.

Currently, my husband a...

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Raising ourselves and our children in neurodivergent culture

Feb 04, 2022
Autistic family culture; neurodivergent family culture is whatever works for you in alignment with your neurobiology collectively as a unit.
 
Sounds impossible sometimes, right? Feels impossible when our needs,
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Awareness is not a cure for disability: PDA

Jan 06, 2022
Kristy Forbes
Awareness is not a cure for disability: PDA
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I woke up this morning with ‘that’ feeling. The one where I’m already anxious before my eyes open and my brain boots up.

My feet are rubbing together furiously and I’m rocking on my side, my organic autistic movement for ...

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Navigating ND Culture: Parenting

Oct 30, 2021

Hello weekend! 

This weekend I chat with you about the varying parenting approaches and styles of neurodivergent families. 

So grab a cuppa, get comfy, and enjoy! 

KF x 

 

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Stop looking away from intersectionality

Oct 14, 2021
Kristy Forbes
Stop looking away from intersectionality
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(Warning: This written content includes discussion around themes of racism, transphobia, homophobia, suicidality.)
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Almost every time I address the topic of intersectionality on my social media, pe...
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What happens when you say "No."

Oct 07, 2021
Do you know that you can say No?
 
So many of us don’t.
 
We’ve been conditioned to understand that No means others will talk behind our backs about our selfishness or coldness.
 
We know it will ofte
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I am not my trauma

Sep 24, 2021
Yesterday, my youngest child came inside the house to tell me a bird had fallen from it’s nest.
 
As I neared the back fence, where all the neighbourhood birds gather in all of their breeds, colours, sounds and v
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Failed relationships & neurodivergence

Sep 11, 2021

Ahh, the wonderful weekend. I hope you're having a brilliant one so far.

This week, for something different, the team and I decided we'd share a conversation with community from my Facebook page this past week.

We touc...

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