Category: Neurodivergence Late Dx
For world autism awareness day: This is me.
Hi. I’m Jax, I’m 44, I have 4 children, a slightly embarrassing IQ (it’s just a fact, kind of like my height) I’m 5’5″ and autistic. That last one is one I’m still bashing around. “You don’t look autistic.” Um, thanks. (What does autistic look like? No, you’re right, I’m not Dustin Hoffman.) The thing…
A pony in the bedroom by Susan Dunne.
Reviewing A Pony in the Bedroom: A Journey through Asperger’s, Assault, and Healing with Horses by Susan Dunne. In trying to understand my own diagnosis of Aspergers syndrome (autistic spectrum disorder) and what effect that has had on my life, I’m reading as many books as I can by other autistic people. Susan Dunne grew…
Self esteem and autism
I’ve been struggling with self esteem lately. And by lately, I mean pretty much my whole life. I’ve measured my value in various ways. By the jobs I’ve got. The pay rises and promotions I achieved. There was one notable year, when I was working in IT for a large financial institution, that I got…
Blogfest – meeting people
One of the double edged swords of attending blogfests is meeting lots and lots of people. Double edged because yay! meeting people I’ve never met but spend so much time talking to online (or people I have met and *still* spend lots of time talking to online 😉 ) but also aargh! lots of people…
From Skallagrigg to Wonder via Just Because, diverse disability books
There was a great twitter chat tonight on the #SupportWNDB tags, focussing on disability representation in fiction. It got me thinking of the books I could bring to mind featuring disability or illness. Buy at amazon (secondhand) An old favourite is the Skallagrigg. Unites Arthur, a little boy abandoned many years ago in a grim…
Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger’s Syndrome – expanded edition.
Yesterday’s book-on-a-train was Pretending to be Normal, Living with Asperger’s Syndrome (Autistic Spectrum Disorder) by Liane Holliday Willer – the new expanded edition. The original book came out in 1999 so there’s an additional 15 years of reflection on AS life to be added. Compelling and witty, Liane Holliday Willey’s account of growing to adulthood…
LEGO®-Based Therapy – These kids are from my planet
So, I’ve been reading How to build social competence through LEGO®-based clubs for children with autism and related conditions (Daniel B. LeGoff, Gina Gómez de la Cuesta, GW Krauss and Simon Baron-Cohen) for a little while now. The premise is basically that if you have a structured environment and activity, you can use it to…
So, autism.
Back in my 20s, while doing a lot of martial arts (up to 5 2 hour sessions a week) I started getting problems with my knees. And sometimes my hips. And I had them checked out by doctors, had tests for arthritis (runs in the family) and no one could find anything wrong with them.…
Some days are diamond, some days are stone
Can’t use the title I wanted to use, because I already used it. So I’ve had to put the whole lyric in, instead of just half 😉 It’s been that kind of day really. Big started the day with a physio appt, (which meant I started the day hauling her out of bed and going…
