I am interested in words, for a while a lot of my photographic work utilised text. I find its form, shape and meaning all very interesting. It is because of this interest that I decided to go on a hunt, a hunt for “AUT”. Autsim is a word we have come to know well but […]
I do not usually take part in blog link ups. It’s not that I have anything against them, I don’t. It’s just I’m not a very “bloggy” person. Now this seems ridiculous as I ran a blog alongside Little Doers before costs (the cost to me) made me take the painful decision to close and […]
I have been looking up various things to help with my autistic son’s behaviour of late and came upon the idea of traffic lights systems. The problem is that for what these things are, essentially a laminated piece of card with a traffic light image and some words on, the price is ridiculously high (maybe […]
To most people a holiday is a time to relax, to idle away the hours and forget about your stresses. That’s most people. The parent of an autistic has a somewhat different experience. It all starts rightly enough, you convince yourself this time will be different, you can forego the schedule and pecs cards. But […]
I love my autistic son. He cracks me up so much, it took me over 30 years to become a bit of a misanthrope but he has managed it in under 5. Today has been a bit of a shitty day for him. We are going away tomorrow and so the schedule has gone out […]
I find it very difficult to be honest with myself about my feelings. There is always that inner voice telling you that you’re bad or wrong for thinking a certain way, or that others will judge you and you should keep it to yourself. After a while these feelings become overwhelming and a sense of […]
So meltdown moo does not like playschool. Anyone who asks him will get this answer. Well that is if they ask him over an hour after he gets home from said playschool, as in the golden hour after picking him up he loves it. Now you might wonder why, if we’re home educating, does Milo […]
So today I have decided to start writing down some of our daily experiences due to Meltdown Moo’s issues. Before I begin you must understand that we are quite a batty family anyway and we already stand out of a crowd. Let me introduce you to the players: Mum: That’s me. Rather batty, self-employed, home educating, misanthropic […]
Welcome to our colour in alphabet series. Every week we will be bringing you a new letter to colour in to aid your childs creative development and letter recognition. The first is A is for Apple. Just click on the image for a printable A4 PDF
Please note this post was originally posted on the littledoers blog back in September 2012 As some people who follow me on twitter may know my son recently had his diagnosis of autism confirmed. It has been a strange road since our initial fears over his lack of speech back when he was 18 […]