Tag: aspergers.
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…
Parenting spoons
Not the parenting *of* spoons. Not quite. No, this is about the resources we all have. Anyone with chronic illness or disability has probably come across The Spoon Theory (If you haven’t, go read it. I’ll wait.) Are we all caught up? Now, I’m not going to say that parenting is like a chronic illness.…
Running.
In the snow. Feet thudding along the pavement out towards the sea, weaving bergen the school children loitering their way home. I wanted to see the sea. I wanted to be out of the house. I wanted time for it to be just me, not mummy, not partner, not geek, not liveotherwise, not even Jax.…
