Author Archives: Jeannette

19…. Where has the time gone?

By | November 4, 2021

Goodness me, our T is 19 today. We are so proud of what he’s achieved and how he’s coped with the disruption of the last couple of years. His A levels were disrupted by Covid, as were so many pupils. He wanted the chance to sit the exams, craved it even. To try and prove […]

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S is for.. you!

By | June 20, 2021

You are loved, you are many things and so are the initials in your name. S….You are: My SOULMATE, quite often we’ll finish each other’s sentences, phone each other at the same time and know exactly what one another is thinking. You’re also SILLY, not in a bad way but a funny way, humour has […]

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Crafting helps – Day 87

By | March 28, 2021

The one disadvantage to D having her weekly flute lesson on a Saturday is that her weekend is shorter and, when her anxieties start about the return to school on a Monday, it gets even shorter. Poor D, when she gets anxious over school, there’s nothing I can sure to re-assure her, skipping up and […]

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One Year On – 26/3/2021

By | March 26, 2021

26th March…I’ve been dreading this day, this anniversary of a year since I last saw my father-in-law, the day he was moved forcibly into a care home. He’d been in hospital for a month and, as it became more and more apparent that he couldn’t go home and also that the first coronavirus wave was […]

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Autism With Lola – A Special Offer

By | October 9, 2019

When D was diagnosed with autism at age 4.5, I had an immense need to find out as much as I could about autism, I still do, I don’t think I will ever stop learning. It felt quite a lonely time, I hadn’t joined social media and really really wanted to find other parents/carers to […]

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An Overview of Phonological Errors

By | August 28, 2019

D and T are now 15 and nearly 17 years old respectively, one of the aspects that made me wonder “could it be autism” was their speech – or lack of it – in their early years. Both had stilted speech, used echolalia and were not able to express themselves verbally when overwhelmed. This is […]

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I’m proud to be the Mumma to an Autistic Daughter #autism #autisticpride

By | June 17, 2019

When you think of Autism, what comes into your mind first? Rainman as portrayed by Dustin Hoffman or a child flapping their hands around, struggling to communicate? Both have autism, both are individual. Because that’s what autism is, an umbrella name under a broad spectrum. Some individuals are “high functioning”, with an amazing ability to […]

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Anxiety, PTSD and Me

By | May 3, 2019

Anxiety sucks. A little bit of day-to-day anxiety is natural, the “oh sh*t, I’m going to be late…” or something similar, but what if that anxiety stays with you all day, burbling away like a saucepan full of water, threatening to over-boil? What if anxieties prevent you from doing activities that you’d previously enjoyed, what […]

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Ticking the box in my autistic daughter’s school (just for the sake of it!!)

By | April 24, 2019

I had hoped, with D being in an SN school, that the box-ticking wouldn’t be so prevalent, that “need” to “tick” just for the sake of it, irrespective of the angst it may cause. (the image above is me going a bit “Daily Fail”, because we all know what a tick looks like!) I know […]

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Getting back into it – #WellbeingWednesday

By | February 6, 2019

I haven’t written one of these for a while, have I? Truth be known, events of last year took their toll on me emotionally (if you don’t know, sepsis in November and the prospect of another foot op this year) and my confidence has nose-dived, I’m not an over-sharer anyway, I’d rather stay silent, feeling […]

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