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Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My LifeAuthor: Emily Katy Category: Memoir Publisher: Monoray Publication date: 28 March 2024 Blurb: ‘Emily’s moving book is a powerful testimony that shines a light on the continued failure of health services to provide any kind of meaningful improvement for autistic people. Should be essential reading for mental health professionals and anyone with autism in their lives’ – FERN BRADY, author of…
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Bookshelves help me regulate…
Continue Reading: Bookshelves help me regulate…I am in the process of packing everything to move house. That is dysregulating at the best of times, however I have found something interesting over the past week. One of the first things I started doing was packing up my bookshelves. As much as I love being surrounded by books, I don’t use them…
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My Breastfeeding Story
Categories: ParentingContinue Reading: My Breastfeeding StoryOver the weekend, I saw a reel on Instagram from Toren Wolf’s mother talking about her experience with breastfeeding. You can see the reel here. I thought I would share my story. Please remember, I was undiagnosed autistic & ADHD, though was diagnosed with post-natal depression (PND) when my first was three months old, and…
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I was an undiagnosed AuDHD parent
Categories: ParentingContinue Reading: I was an undiagnosed AuDHD parentBack in January 2002, I became a parent for the first time. I had a gorgeous baby boy. I was also an undiagnosed autistic and ADHD parent. When that boy was 20 years old, I received my diagnosis, and his younger brother was 18. I navigated 20 years of parenting not knowing I was AuDHD,…
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Christmas Day Reflections
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Christmas Day ReflectionsI have never enjoyed Christmas Day. It’s been a day of people, food, noise, and food I don’t enjoy. It’s always been a struggle for me. Over the last few years, I’ve realised how much of that is because I’m autistic and ADHD. The complexity of the noise, the unfamiliar food, change of routine, being…
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Review: Aspergirls
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: AspergirlsAuthor: Rudy Simone Category: Non-Fiction Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publication date: July 15, 2010 Blurb: Girls with Asperger’s Syndrome are less frequently diagnosed than boys, & even once symptoms have been recognized, help is often not readily available. The image of coping well presented by AS females can often mask difficulties, deficits, challenges, & loneliness. Review: This was such a mixed book,…
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AuDHD and Faith…
Categories: FaithContinue Reading: AuDHD and Faith…Earlier this month, I did a post about how I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I have been mulling a lot about my faith and what it looks like through an AuDHD lens (along with most of my life pre-diagnosis). I have been reading some articles online and quite unimpressed by what I’ve read so…
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Business reflections…
Categories: BusinessContinue Reading: Business reflections…Every now and then, I look back on my life and wonder how it took so long to realise I’m AuDHD… Back in 2002, I started a business. It was the first mums in business network in Australia. I started it because I couldn’t find support to start a business so I could be home…
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Holiday at home…
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Holiday at home…One of my favourite holidays growing up was a holiday at home. My parents made a big deal to everyone about how we were going away, I think it was for a week. One evening, we were all packed into the car and drove around. I think we stopped at McDonald’s for dinner, which was…
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I am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made…
Categories: FaithContinue Reading: I am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made…In a group I’m in, someone posted a link to an article ‘How should a Christian view ADD and ADHD?’ I grew up Christian. My parents were missionaries. I’ve been a member of churches of various denominations my whole life, apart from the last few year. Here’s my take on being AuDHD and a Christian.…