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Where’ve you been?
We got lost this year. All of us. The Rose turned 18 and the whole family went through a huge (unrelated) crisis just afterwards. No one died. No one was …
The Aupair
The Rose has been away baby sitting for two weeks during this summer holiday. She went to my home town near Wales and stayed with my sister and brother in law to look …
Bring me sunshine
The other day I was reflecting on how much has changed in the two years since The Rose got her diagnosis. Of course nothing much has changed at all for …
I’m in here
We always thought The Rose was ‘individual’ but that something, sometime soon would just click and then the onslaught of party invitations and handsome suitors would roll in. But the heads -up that …
What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this?
The Rose’s candid approach to all things sexual – is astonishing. After the session at anger management clinic (see prior post – she was just 15 and still undiagnosed) and …
Waving (not drowning)
In many ways parenting an autistic person is like being autistic yourself. It’s so difficult to explain and so bloody complex- it’s like being on a desert island with no …
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