Embracing-Autism

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Why Wait! (Green to Go!)

“Mum you better not set that timer, or else!” Trinity doesn’t understand or seem to see the need to stop and wait for anything. Why would she, after all it really is an abstract concept! Unfortunately since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has never been a more far reaching and crucial reason forContinue reading “Why Wait! (Green to Go!)”

Keeping Christmas- A Spectrum Tale!

No one ever told me how to keep Christmas, to put it simply, it’s little peculiar traditions are often passed down through the family from generation to generation, each one adding it’s own twist and change! In all honesty I used to love Christmas as a child and as an adult! But I’ve come toContinue reading “Keeping Christmas- A Spectrum Tale!”

To Speak or Not to Speak, that is the question?

When our daughter Trinity was a baby, we were so excited listening to her early babbling and playing with word sounds! Her emerging first words, were so exciting and yet comical to hear. Words like ‘bapple,’ for ‘apple’ and ‘see-ee-aw, ‘ for ‘cereal.’ Words will never express the burning heartache we as parents went through,Continue reading “To Speak or Not to Speak, that is the question?”

I Absolutely Must be Upside Down!

It’s incredibly hard to express just how strong the drive and compulsion that Trinity has to be upside down, in all kinds of shapes, and in multiple ways! All we know is that if we don’t help facilitate her desperate need to be upside down, she gets so distressed and her anxiety levels go fromContinue reading “I Absolutely Must be Upside Down!”

Why does she put everything in her mouth?

“When I’m chewing I feel calm and better able to focus.” First of all, there is nothing wrong with your child if they are a very young baby or toddler and putting objects into their mouths and chewing as this is a very necessary part of the oral phase of child development. However it isContinue reading “Why does she put everything in her mouth?”

Why won’t she sleep?

“We were desperate for hers and our own mental health to establish a healthy bedtime routine” In the early days pre-diagnosis the idea of our daughter Trinity sleeping before midnight seemed like an impossible dream! If I’m totally honest, those days are a living nightmare. The evenings spent in her room bouncing her and spinningContinue reading “Why won’t she sleep?”

Visual Distress

“When I looked at the world through my rose tinted spectacles my whole body was at peace” In 2013 I was at University in Bath England and struggling to cope with the increasing demands of the PGCE course I had begun. Reading was difficult, unpleasant (despite my love of reading) my eyes felt as ifContinue reading “Visual Distress”