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  • Aspergers,  Blog,  Expat Life

    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017 /

    For some of us with autism, pursuing a friendship beyond the surface superficialities imposed by polite society is fraught with difficulty and self-doubt.

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    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014
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    Why An Autism Diagnosis Is Like Finding Out You’re Adopted

    November 6, 2015
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    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
  • Aspergers,  Blog

    “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism”

    February 10, 2017 /

    It took 25 years, 5 psychiatrists, 4 diagnoses and a string of shortsighted doctors before someone realised the issue was autism – and that someone was Me.

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    October 24, 2017

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    June 9, 2014

    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 2015
  • Aspergers,  Mental Health

    Why An Autism Diagnosis Is Like Finding Out You’re Adopted

    November 6, 2015 /
    Surprised tabby cat

    Getting a diagnosis is like finding out you’re adopted – it’s not that you’re odd and don’t fit in, you’re just part of a different family.

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    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014
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    Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

    October 28, 2015

    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014
  • Aspergers,  Blog,  Mental Health

    Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

    October 28, 2015 /
    Eggs in an eggbox with faces drawn on them, the majority looking at one different coloured egg among them.

    If people realised how hard autistics have to work to connect, they’d understand… empathy is a two-way street.

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    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015

    “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism”

    February 10, 2017
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    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014
  • Aspergers,  Blog,  Mental Health

    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015 /
    Decorative purple carnival mask

    Recently, the mere anticipation of writing has resulted in instant mental paralysis, until this morning when I spilt an entire cup of coffee - the second in a fortnight. To put it succinctly, I lost my shit.

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    November 6, 2015
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    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014

    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017
  • Aspergers,  Mental Health

    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 2015 /

    With a lump in my throat I described my beautiful, clever, mischievous daughter and discussed all the ways we could help make her future the antithesis of my past.

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    February 10, 2017
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    March 13, 2014

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    June 9, 2014
  • Aspergers,  Bipolar,  Blog,  Mental Health

    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015 /
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    I don’t need to take on the responsibility for changing other people’s misconceptions. Learning to be honest and authentic - standing in my own truth – is more important right now.

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    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014
    Eggs in an eggbox with faces drawn on them, the majority looking at one different coloured egg among them.

    Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

    October 28, 2015

    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 2015
  • Aspergers,  Bipolar,  Mental Health,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014 /

    We had the luxury of a three-day weekend thanks to last Friday's PA day, and right from the start it was an outpouring of creative energy...

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    October 28, 2015

    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017
    Woman in novelty sunglasses stares into the camera

    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
  • Aspergers,  Bipolar,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014 /
    Drawer handle

    I’ve mentally written and re-written the start of this post a thousand times over but when it came to putting it on the page I always lost my nerve. It never sounded right...

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    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014
  • Aspergers,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014 /
    Child with aspergers

    We go months in our family without seeing a doctor, then suddenly here we are, test-driving not one but two distinct areas of the Canadian healthcare system...

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