Yesterday I posted about my daughter’s sleeplessness and I asked for help. So simple and it worked.
Today I feel so different. I had the visit from the Doctor while my daughter slept. For an hour I talked about my daughter and something miraculous happened. I was listened to and heard. I have a lot of [...]
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I often think quite a lot before I write a post, but this one is coming right out. My daughter is still not sleeping, though with acupuncture treatment she is slowly but securely getting better. Men, think of all the women you have lived with and how you feel around their PMS. Women, think how that [...]
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This weekend, my autistic daughter has gone away for the first time. She is not being tucked up by me or her father or her step-father. Not one of us is making sure she has her snacks, or her non-gluten meals. Not one of us is reading her favourite story, or sticking stickers with her….
I [...]
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I wrote before that my daughter is going through a withdrawn phase. She is not sleeping well, she hardly talks, she is enclosed in her autistic world in a way we have not experienced for years.
I run a home-based programme for her, Son-Rise. www.autismtreatmentcenter.org. Wonderful people come to our home and play with her, gently encouraging [...]
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Being a parent of a child with….well, in Britain we say Special Needs. How is that different from being a parent full stop? Why would a different brain or body make a difference to how we view ourselves as parents? After all, every child needs looking after, feeding ,clothing and loving…
But, and here I sigh…… [...]
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Do you ever find yourself making allowances for your “special” child? Giving that extra helping hand? doing things for them they may be able to do perfectly well on their own? The urge to protect is the strongest primal emotion for all parents- it’s part of our DNA. And when we have a child with [...]
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Today I went fishing in the ocean of the Internet.
Hour upon hour trawling autism sites, forums, groups, seeing who is out there in the world.
My haul was huge, we are huge.
Whole shoals of moans and groans, piranhas of no hopers, a sea of exhaustion and despair. My net caught children lonely in the playground, standing [...]
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