Showing posts with label ASD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ASD. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 June 2016

How do you use an Obsession?

Like most parents who have a child with ASD, I had read all the books I could find and each of them said “use their obsession” but no one explained what this meant.  What did using an obsession mean?  As a tired mum, sleep deprived and miles away from family,...

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Monday, 23 May 2016

“Oh Bless Him” – “Oh Bugger Off”

It’s not often I do a ranty style post but I have had one of those weeks when I am just proud that I have managed to get out of bed each day and even prouder that I have actually managed to get dressed! So here goes. As you know, my...

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Thursday, 18 February 2016

The Days After The Diagnosis

So much is written about how to get a diagnosis and what the criteria is for a diagnosis but little is written about how it feels to get the diagnosis. As a family, we’ve collected many a variety of diagnosis along our travels. You would think that, by now, we...

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Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Lists, Bullet Journal and Autism

As you will all know, I love lists and most of these exist in my lovely Bullet Journal. I have lists for everything, including a list of my lists (yes, seriously). Monthly brain dump – to do Weekly list – to do Daily list – to do Goals Habits Birthdays...

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Thursday, 5 November 2015

Being literal can cause real Chaos in Kent… and much laughter

When I look on social media, there is often so much doom and gloom about living in the world of SEN.  I have three children with statements of SEN and we’ve lost count of the labels we have been awarded so I know there are lots of things that can...

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Friday, 16 October 2015

4 things Animal Crossing New Leaf is helping my son with ASD to understand

I don’t know about you but we are the house of games consoles.  You name it, we have it.  The staff in our local Game shop know us by name, know what we like and ask if we’ve been ill or on holiday if we don’t pop in once a week....

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Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Welcome to Planet Katie

Desperate for attention, Katie H is out there spouting her views again – sadly no one has told her of Mr Lincoln’s quote – “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt” Here are just a few extracts from “Planet Katie – population one”’s latest piece … Continue reading

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

August challenge

So, here we are. 31 July – only 21 weeks to Christmas (stop swearing, you will thank me for the heads up, I promise). July has been a month of true Chaos here. We started with a stomach bug, initially … Continue reading