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N N N N N Nineteen
The Rose turned 19 last week. It was a far less traumatic affair than her 18th but amazing for a number of reasons. It started out with a hankering to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Being a woman
Those who read this blog regularly will know that The Rose is in her first relationship. It is not only her first boy/girl relationship but the first mutually complex relationship …
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 …
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 …
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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