Five Tips For Spoonie Parents

Five Tips For Spoonie Parents

Oct 10, 2017 | Lifestyle

  A spoonie is someone who is living with a chronic illness. It refers to the idea that such a person has a limited number of spoons (as an analogy for energy) to use each day. I’m a spoonie because I’m autistic and also have chronic fatigue...
Autism – Preparing For The Summer

Autism – Preparing For The Summer

Jul 20, 2017 | Autistic Spectrum

Summer is here! The purple children break up from school tomorrow and we have a fun summer planned, so I’m super excited. In the past at this point in the year I’ve felt really anxious. Loss of routine and a stretch of unscheduled time can be really scary...
Interview With An Autism Sibling

Interview With An Autism Sibling

May 5, 2017 | Autistic Spectrum, videos

This week I’m interviewing my son Robo Boy, who is not autistic, on what it is like to be an autism sibling. He also talks about how best to support a child in his position, with two autistic siblings. He’s a little less keen on being centre stage than my...
My Granny’s 90th birthday party

My Granny’s 90th birthday party

Aug 13, 2014 | Blog

Last weekend we were in Birmingham for a very special party. We were there to celebrate my Granny’s 90th birthday. For the first time ever, all of the members of my Granny’s family gathered in one place for her 90th birthday party. We ate a ton of buffet...
Wonder Girl Takes Over My World

Wonder Girl Takes Over My World

Jun 12, 2013 | Blog

Three children in and I thought I had age two mastered. I foolishly imagined I had age two strategies all prepared and at the first sign of trouble I would go into well experienced Mum mode and my toddler would fall into line. Wrong. Wonder Girl is something else...