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You gotta fight, for your right, to paaar – tay
In four weeks The Rose turns 18. I won’t be the first – or last Mum, to question where the time has gone, shed a tear for the baby years …
Music to our ears
The Rose feels other’s pain and tears very deeply and as my re-blogged article last week showed – being overly empathetic means it’s impossible to filter out the important stuff …
Hard Core Prawn
The Rose is a literal kind of a gal. As with most Aspies a great deal of banter goes over her head and she doesn’t always get the irony. The Rose …
Bus Pass
So despite the fact we now have a woman in our house, life in many ways, is just the same. She is still organised, meticulous and a lover of obsessive …
The Boyfriend
It’s all she’s ever wanted. And now she has it. A mate. A friend. A closeness. A peer to learn from and share with. It’s all I’ve ever wanted for …
…and so we’re back
… ‘From outer space’ – as Gloria Gaynor famously warbled; and that description may be metaphorically true in many circumstances, but in this case – we just went on holiday. I …
You Got A Friend
Friends! They are the Holy Grail for most of us, whatever the scale of our social dys/function. The mates who make you laugh till you cry. The ones who make you …
SOS
Any parent worries how their offspring will cope in an emergency. We try to prepare them as best we can, but short of covering ourselves in tomato sauce and lying …
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 …
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 …
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