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Stitched Up
Sometimes I am a truly awful person and a really rubbish, stupid Mum. This isn’t just my opinion of course, it is widely shared by my whole family and beyond …
Kiss and Makeup.
And in other ‘note news’ (ref previous post: On a Different Note http://wp.me/p3ppwr-1L) …I couldn’t take The Rose to the bus stop the other morning, where she catches her bus to college …
I wanna hold your hand
Whenever we go out to places which are noisy or crowded – she holds my hand. And she keeps hold of it until she’s surer of whatever we are doing …
We’ve got it covered
Watching in awe as The Rose grows up and unfurls beautifully, but what scares me most is her behaviour with boys. One day she’s going to get into THAT …
On a different note
The Rose finds huge relief in writing us notes. In them she can order her thoughts and communicate her side of things – without having to deal with our reactions which just complicates …
As A Matter Of Fact…
In this blog I try to catch the shards of insight which burst from The Rose like little mirrors and reflect a wider picture which doesn’t define her narrowly as …
Hard or Soft?
We (The Rose, The Brother and Me) drive around the countryside on Saturday’s, delivering The Brother to his extra curricular activities. The Rose comes too because otherwise she doesn’t go out. …
Higher or Lower?
“The difference between high functioning and low functioning autism is that high functioning means your deficits are ignored and low functioning means your assets are ignored.” I’ve always been grateful …
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 …
The Name Of The Rose Blog 