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 […]
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 […]
A short poem about autism and my son My Little Monkey My little monkey is a cracking little fellow He runs round like a lunatic and is never, ever mellow He likes to twirl in circles and crashes into things He doesn’t understand the world, or the joy he brings My little monkey, […]