Aspergers Syndrome

When A Little Understanding Melts Your Heart By Twitchy

February 15, 2013

Flying We’re used to people who don’t get it. Odd looks, assumptions. We’re used to having to explain so much to the uninitiated; to boil down all the pertinent information for new people we encounter. Even when we engage new health professionals, we sometimes need to literally tell them our child’s life story. It can [...]

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What happens if they don’t come back? – by Renee

February 6, 2013

After a holidays that seemed to stretch forever, we are back into it. School started back for us last Friday and I think we are all suffering a bit of a re-entry bump. Overall, Poss is coping well. She is excited about being back, loves seeing her friends and her new teacher seems to have [...]

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It must be Tuesday… by Marita

January 23, 2013

I’m on a roll with the Buffy references at the moment. Tuesday is our Psych day, I always think of Buffy on Tuesday mornings.   Trigger Warning: Content includes references to death, suicide and murder….  if you are feeling troubled Life Line contact details are here.   Annie came out the other night and asked [...]

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Too many words… (by Renee)

January 16, 2013

We have not long returned from three weeks with my in-laws over the Christmas break. It was a challenging holiday for many reasons; we were away for a long time, it was over Christmas and we had to leave the pets at home. But there was a challenge that we weren’t prepared for and that [...]

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Fly….. (by Suz)

January 14, 2013

The January days pass, too quickly now. In 17 days, he will be there. My boy will be at primary school. I can hardly comprehend that he will be there. I know it is what we have worked for, fought for and strived for. It just doesn’t feel real yet. We have been together, he [...]

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The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) – Guest Post

December 24, 2012

I asked in my post ‘Not Good Enough’ last week what we can do to improve the appalling wait times for Early Intervention and access to services for our children. My clever friend Bec (who herself has a profoundly disabled child) responded in the comments with a reference to the NDIS. I’ve had trouble getting [...]

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What would they like for Christmas? by Marita

December 19, 2012
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Gifts for children with autism can be tricky. You want to get them something they will enjoy but often they don’t have traditional interests (like our rubber duckie obsession). Heidi’s two favourite gift she ever recieved are a giant container full of buttons and other smaller containers to put the buttons in, there was 1000′s [...]

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Finding routine in the chaos

December 12, 2012

We have come to the end of the school year, in fact we finished last week, and the long holidays are stretching ahead of us. As a kid, I loved these holidays; at the start it was always too hard to work out how long I was home, but by the last month, I was [...]

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A Very Awe-tism Christmas by Marita

December 5, 2012
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I’ve written a little about our experiences preparing for Christmas here, here and here, but all of those are from the parents point of view. I have found it incredibly helpful to read the blogs and facebook pages of those on the spectrum themselves, as well as talking to those friends in my offline life [...]

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Aspergers, Engineers and Mums – Guest Post by Rosana

November 26, 2012

I have learnt so many things in such a short space of time. “Let my ‘yes’ be Yes and my ‘no’ be No”. It’s like living in a giant Fortran code: IF (Mum says “No”) THEN Not happening ELSE IF (Mum says “maybe”) THEN “Yes” ELSE IF (Mum says “I’ll think about it”) THEN “Yes” [...]

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