I’ve been writing on this blog for 14 years. If you’ve been reading as long, you’ve travelled a moderately bumpy road with me – childbirth and rearing, pregnancy, lost pregnancies, in and out of work and career changes, my sister’s death, a move to a whole different county. More recently there’s been the autism thing […]
Autistic burnout/ regression/ inertia – it’s not just me.
April 27, 2017 By 7 Comments
A few weeks ago on twitter, I put out the following tweet Looking for resources on autistic inertia, burnout, regression particularly with reference to late diagnosis. Grateful for RTs — Jax Blunt (@liveotherwise) April 9, 2017 [Text reads: Looking for resources on autistic inertia, burnout, regression particularly with reference to late diagnosis. Grateful for RTs.] […]
The Penalty area by Alain Gillot (translated by Howard Curtis)
February 23, 2017 By 4 Comments
Buy at Amazon (affiliate) A heart-warming novel about overcoming adversity, making human connections, and football. Vincent once had a shot at becoming a professional soccer player but a career-ending knee injury put an end to his dreams. A tough kid from a poor family, he has become an emotionally cut-off man with frustrated hopes and […]
The State of Grace by Rachael Lucas – an #ownvoices review
February 10, 2017 By 14 Comments
A boy made of blocks – the blog tour
January 18, 2017 By 3 Comments
What Autism is
October 29, 2016 By 5 Comments
Would you buy my book?
October 6, 2016 By 16 Comments
On the edge of gone by Corinne Duyvis
March 9, 2016 By 2 Comments
January 29, 2035. That’s the day the comet is scheduled to hit—the big one. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a temporary shelter outside their hometown of Amsterdam to wait out the blast, but Iris is nowhere to be found, and at the rate Denise’s drug-addicted mother is going, they’ll […]
Aspergers and sensory overload – my experience
December 4, 2015 By 10 Comments
You’ve probably all seen an asperger’s or autistic sensory overload without knowing what you were seeing. It may have looked like a small child having a tantrum, maybe in a shop or play area. It’s not a tantrum. It may have been a slightly older child having a strop, all flounce and bounce and anger […]
How to survive (and thrive) with a 2048 brain.
November 17, 2015 By 4 Comments
Have you ever played 2048? It’s a horribly addictive number tile puzzle game, you slide the numbers about and they double up when they touch matching tiles. You’re trying to get to 2048, and of course if you achieve that, the target doubles. Did I mention it’s horribly addictive? Just one more go. Suddenly it’s […]
