Christmas time. It’s filled with bright decorations, festive markets, Christmas parties, buying presents for the ones that you love and adore! It can be the most wonderful time of the year, but it can also be very much the opposite. Christmas for Autistic children and adults can be very overwhelming and draining. From sudden changes in […]
Sometimes we all need a break from our busy life’s and to escape the madness of just, well everything! As much as I love a good old summer holiday, going on holiday in the winter months is by far my favourite! Everyone’s at work and school, the places you want to visit aren’t packed with […]
Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful time over the festive period! Honestly don’t know where 2016 went, It was definitely an eventful one! I’ve been thinking a lot about what I would like to achieve this year. I don’t normally plan goals at the beginning of the new year but as the […]
Dear Anxiety, You have always been in my life at a very young age. You never really got involved a lot back then, I suppose you just liked to watch from a distance. I knew something was there, but I didn’t know it was you. Back then, you didn’t really look like anything, you were […]
I don’t like change. It’s not that hard to see. I don’t think I have ever met an Autistic person who is enthusiastic about change. Sudden change. Change that we are not expecting. Change that will interrupt our daily routines. Change that looks small to others, when actually it’s big to us. For example, I […]
A heavy feeling sits in my chest. People run around, asking me to do things, clean that, get this. The horrible work lights hurt my eyes so I look down at the ground. The environment gets busier and busier and the feeling in my chest starts to expand. All my senses are getting mixed up […]
Sensory overloads are frightening. I wouldn’t wish anyone to experience them. Even now I’m twenty I still have them. A lot of neurotypicals ask me what it’s like. A lot of them have mistaken sensory overloads for tantrums or just being naughty. It’s really annoying because I constantly have to explain to people that we […]
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