Reflections

You might be doing it wrong. autism parenting Feb 04, 2021

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.

Being autistic means my processing is on a different timeline.

Often I’ll be reminded of...

PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) and villains. autism behaviours masking neurodivergent parenting Dec 28, 2020

Why do so many children with a PDA autistic profile take on the character of a villain, a bad guy or a monster, werewolf, zombie, anything that seems a disapproved of figure?

Because we come to understand very quickly that there is something powerful within us that even we cannot...

(Image description: A photo of an excerpt from a parenting book, on top of the parenting book sits a photo of a young woman holding her baby.)

Her behaviour was unacceptable. autism neurodivergent parenting Dec 04, 2020

(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 baby was born.

I was on my own and lived in public housing, and absolutely loved being a Mum.

In...

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