Under the Weather

Urgh, COVID has hit our household with a vengeance! First our wonderful domestic lady went down with it, then my husband Monty, then our au pair Cindy, and now our three-year-old autistic son. We have had two hard days and nights with him and are back in the trenches trying everything we can to get […]

The Good Doctor

My husband and I are big fans of the Netflix series, ‘The Good Doctor’. Not particularly because it features an autistic character, Dr Shaun Murphy (played by neurotypical actor, Freddie Highmore), but because we’ve always liked medical dramas. In fact, we have yet to see a popular series accurately depict an autistic individual sitting right […]

Triggered by Devices

I recently took part in a debate on a post on Facebook, which criticised moms for allowing their children to use devices. The OP’s opinion was that letting children use devices of any kind, was “lazy parenting”. Any special needs moms reading this will know that the one thing parenting a child on the spectrum […]