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

    February 10, 2017
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    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
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    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015
  • 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

    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014

    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 2015
  • Blog,  Interracial marriage

    How do you know your interracial marriage will work?

    October 16, 2015 /
    Black and white image of a crowd protesting race mixing in the US

    When K and I decided to be together it turns out, looking back, neither one of us gave it a lot of thought...

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    The Good, The Bad & The Hungry

    July 20, 2012
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    How eco-friendly is Canada?

    April 22, 2012
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    25 Reasons Why Canada Rocks (PHOTOS)

    June 14, 2012
  • 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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    Child with aspergers

    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014

    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017

    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 2015
  • Blog,  Bridging Cultures,  Islam

    Making A Meal Of Ramadan

    June 22, 2015 /
    Table with various arabic food served

    Is it just me or does Ramadan seem to get more air-time and column inches with every passing year?

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    Kids in crisis – the repercussions of abuse

    March 20, 2012
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    Point & Shoot: Flash Freeze

    January 6, 2014
    Insulation by Cadburys

    “Life is like a box of chocolates…”

    January 17, 2013
  • 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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    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015
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    Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

    October 28, 2015
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    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog,  Islam

    An Apologist’s Apology

    March 12, 2015 /
    Black and white, woman offering man flowers

    Instead of building intercultural bridges as I imagined, I was adding my bricks to the prisons so many are walled up in by their own communities...

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    Borderline Personality Disorder – getting a diagnosis

    December 13, 2012
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    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 3)

    April 9, 2012
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    What’s in a name?

    April 11, 2012
  • Blog,  Expat Life,  Living in Canada,  Photography

    The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something

    February 25, 2015 /
    Yonge Street, downtown Toronto

    They said on the radio today this was the coldest February since eighteen-something. After a certain point cold is cold is cold.

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    Our Expat Story in The Telegraph

    April 26, 2012
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    A Matter of Faith

    February 13, 2012

    Tale of same-sex penguin pair goes viral – the saga of Buddy and Pedro continues…

    November 9, 2011
  • 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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    Why An Autism Diagnosis Is Like Finding Out You’re Adopted

    November 6, 2015
    Child with aspergers

    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014

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

    February 10, 2017
  • 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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    That Laugh

    June 19, 2013
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    Adult diagnosis – how does it help?

    July 24, 2014
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    The Question

    July 16, 2014
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    • Bipolar
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Top Posts & Pages

  • 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 People With Autism Fake It
    How People With Autism Fake It
  • Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
    Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
  • Desperation in the City of Dreaming Spires
    Desperation in the City of Dreaming Spires
  • Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
  • Ungrateful Bitch (Part 3)
    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 3)
  • How BPD made me a better expat
    How BPD made me a better expat

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