Weymouth Sealife centre
This was kind of a spur of the moment day trip. It got booked a day or two in advance before we went (yes this is spur of the moment…
How was Greece?
“It was great!” A knee jerk reaction. The same reaction I make when people ask me “How are you?” “Oh fine thanks”. “We had a really great time thanks” But…
Disclaimer
Although we should never feel like we have to explain ourselves, a little understanding sometimes goes a long way. These are our personal beliefs. Autism is individual to the person…
Pathological demand avoidance: Can’t not won’t.
I have described Samantha as having pathological demand avoidance in several blogs now without really going into any details (sorry), so here is that blog where I explain as best…
It’s not a label, it’s a diagnosis.
I often hear the phrase why would you want to label your child? Why do you want to label them with ADHD? Why would you want to have them labelled…
Being the grown up is hard
Your child is shouting, refusing to get dressed and is being defiant in every single way you/they can possibly think of. You shout back, you are sick of this. Why…
Weekend away
We spent the weekend away seeing family (grandparents). The children love their grandparents and had been really looking forward to seeing them given that due to many different circumstances it…
Worry worms
As a family we are no strangers to anxiety. The children have a huge amount of anxiety which is in part related to their autism. Many people do not realise…
Whoops slipped, tripped, landed on the debit card…holiday booked.
So life has been out of my control a lot lately. I am waiting on lots of things to happen that I have sent off that I now cannot control…
Our first merlin pass trip to chessington: March 2022
*This blog has very few photos as we just didn’t find this park had as many photo opportunities as Legoland, this may be partially due to the fact we spent…