Difficulties Supporting a Son at University with Asperger’s Syndrome
Difficulties going to university with Asperger’s syndrome
Special needs
Our Youngest Son is 7 Today!
Today our youngest son has turned 7 years old. Originally due on my birthday he arrived 5 weeks early to celebrate with the Queen instead! He was a good weight at 7lbs 1oz, born in the evening and sent home the very next day. Unfortunately he many trips backwards and forwards to the hospital, losing … Read more
Starting School Fears with #SEN
I should be able to write a post telling you not to worry about your child starting school (like this one): After all this is my fourth time. It was always going to be hard letting go of my very last baby as it was a difficult decision to decide to have no more children … Read more
GCSE Results
GCSEs come at such a difficult time. I actually remember writing about this in my own GCSE English exam (the unseen creative writing bit I believe). Surrounded by a hall of 6th formers doing retakes, it was such a distraction. That’s the thing isn’t it – hormones are raging, kids are wanting to be adults … Read more
This is my Child – Undiagnosed
This post is in conjunction with The Mumsnet This is my Child Campaign is about busting myths and raising awareness. When he was 2 years old he started to demonstrate “traits” of Autism, some reminding me of his oldest brother. They weren’t anything we couldn’t handle, we’d had 14 years of living with Aspergers at this point. … Read more
Wear it for Autism
Wear It For Autism Takes Centre Stage Tickets for the Star-studded Charity Fashion Show Now Available Taking place on 10 September at the Vinyl Factory in the heart of Soho, London, Wear it For Autism is a fashion show with a difference. All the models taking part have, in some way, been affected by autism … Read more
Smurf 2: It’s all about the people you take on your journey
The Smurfs 2 film, for me, was about the fact that it doesn’t matter who made you, or where you have come from but what you are going to do now, how you decide to act, which determines where you are going. This is something I have already previously touched on here. Evil wizard Gargamel … Read more
Starting School
This bottle I received when I went to BlogonMOSI from the lovely Handpicked Collection– what has that got to do with starting school? Well there’s an awful lot to think about isn’t there. At the time I was (and still am) fighting to get my son 1:1 support for the whole time he is at school, … Read more
Dinosaur Bedroom Makeover
This post is about how we moved our son, with special needs, out of our bedroom and into his own DINOSAUR room for his 4th birthday. You may recall that last July we bought our first house – you can see the before pictures here. Well it is a slow project as we have the boys, … Read more
