What did you do this morning?

What did you do this morning?… I had a little personal celebration in my kitchen because for the first time in I can remember; I was up, showered, moisturised (pregnancy obsession), wearing proper clothes, making breakfast and feeling surprisingly well rested! * High fives myself! * I think it’s important to recognise and celebrate these…

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Stop playing the waiting game!

So I’ve just had my 38-week antenatal appointment with my midwife. This one had a real sense of excitement about it, since it’s my last appointment before my due date. After I happily told my midwife about how I’ve been feeling and what I’ve been up to since I last saw her, she turned to…

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Teaching emotions to your autistic child

Teaching children with autism about emotions and how to express themselves can be tough. You might have tried so many different strategies with your child, but each time you feel as though you’re just not getting anywhere. And you might even start to convince yourself that your child ‘isn’t ready’ and then stop altogether. I…

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Go with your gut

Have you ever just had a gut feeling about something… …but then for some reason or another, you went against it? I remember when I was at university a group of my friends and I decided to house share for our second year. All of us lived together in our first year apart from one…

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Telling you the facts…

did you know that… Only 15% of autistic adults in the UK are in full-time work. That’s not a typo. Only 15%. I heard this statistic in a documentary not too long ago, and it left me feeling shocked and saddened. The documentary went on to talk about the number of people on the spectrum…

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Messing with teachers at school

Back when I was in school, I could read teachers like a book… And it wasn’t just me, all the other kids in class could too… We knew who NOT to mess with… And we knew who could be taken for a ride…. Every teacher was treated differently… It’s true… Even as a kid you…

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When they’ve got the giggles!

Has your child ever had an outburst of giggles that seem to have come out of nowhere? A while back I worked with a boy called Ethan who would do this. He would suddenly have an outburst of giggles and a rush of hyperactivity. It looked as though it came of nowhere and Ethan seemed…

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It’s too early!

It’s too early. That can’t be the time. Go back to bed. It’s still bedtime. How many hours of sleep have I had? It’s not even morning yet. If you’re a parent or carer I can almost guarantee at some point in your life some of, maybe all of, these thoughts have crossed your mind.…

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Helping your autistic child be an independent sleeper

One of the reasons why parents and carers have difficulties with their child’s sleeping is because their child has never learnt how to fall asleep alone. This is something many families deal with not just parents and carers with ASD children. If you’ve always rubbed their back to help them sleep, sat and read them…

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Setting up a bed time routine for your autistic child

Setting up a positive bed time routine… Sounds simple right? Well, the good news is it can be. Setting up a positive bedtime routine for your child could be a case of tweaking a few things here and there. But it could also mean big changes and new strategies to put in place. Either way,…

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