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  • Aspergers,  Bipolar,  Blog,  Mental Health

    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015 /
    Woman in novelty sunglasses stares into the camera

    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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    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014
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    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015

    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 2015
  • Bipolar,  Mental Health

    Hypomania: riding the bipolar high

    December 8, 2014 /
    silhouette of girl jumping with excitement

    These days when I relax in shavasana at the end of yoga the tears flowing into my ears are from an excess of joy not sorrow...

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    Adult diagnosis – how does it help?

    July 24, 2014
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    Blame It On The Bipolar

    October 3, 2014
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    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014
  • Bipolar,  Mental Health

    Blame It On The Bipolar

    October 3, 2014 /
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    How much of my father’s behaviour was a result of his illness, and how much was his real personality?

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    Hypomania: riding the bipolar high

    December 8, 2014
    Dictionary definition of 'Diagnosis'

    Adult diagnosis – how does it help?

    July 24, 2014
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    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014
  • Bipolar,  Mental Health

    Adult diagnosis – how does it help?

    July 24, 2014 /
    Dictionary definition of 'Diagnosis'

    Getting my diagnosis was like being handed a key to my prison, not a life sentence.

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    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014
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    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
    silhouette of girl jumping with excitement

    Hypomania: riding the bipolar high

    December 8, 2014
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Bipolar,  Mental Health

    The Question

    July 16, 2014 /
    Children with raised hands in a classroom

    My mother sat me down at the table, “I think you’re old enough now to understand... your father’s not well”

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    What’s in a name?

    April 11, 2012
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    Grandad’s Ghost, or, How To Fuck Up A Funeral

    December 17, 2015
    Aisha and Khawar Ashraf

    Unexpected Love

    February 14, 2013
  • 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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    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 2015
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    Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

    October 28, 2015
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    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 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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    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015

    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017
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    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Bipolar,  Mental Health

    That Laugh

    June 19, 2013 /
    Poison

    As I waited for the punchline that never came I was suddenly, brutally aware I was sitting next to a man I didn’t know...

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    April 11, 2012
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    April 30, 2013
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    All we could do was wait…

    March 5, 2013

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  • MENTAL HEALTH
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Top Posts & Pages

  • Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
  • Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
  • O Canada, O What do I do?
    O Canada, O What do I do?
  • How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity
    How to stay unique in a world that demands conformity
  • Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
    Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
  • Battling BPD
    Battling BPD
  • How People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It
  • A bitter pill to swallow
    A bitter pill to swallow

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