Advice for the Autistic child I never knew
If you’re the parent of a child (or children) who’s Autistic, or who you think might be, I want you to sit up and take particular notice of this post. And if you’re not – well, I hope you’ll continue reading anyway. Because this post…
Patient care taking a backseat to the business of health
I don’t think very much of doctors, or any “brand” of health professional really – except for the nurses that tend to do most of the heavy lifting. I haven’t come to this opinion lightly or quickly. For more than a decade I registered international…
Is Autism the reason I’m so “careful” with money?
This week hasn’t gone at all the way I’d planned it to – thanks to the NDIS making a royal mess of my application for a simple plan variation, and a belligerent brush turkey that decided our yard was its idea of a four-star hotel.…
Myths and misinformation: setting the record straight on Autism
In researching many of the stories I’ve written these past six months, it has sometimes been difficult to discern fiction from fact. And if it’s difficult for me – someone with a vested interest in finding out the ‘truth’ about Autism, who is indeed Autistic…
Autism: many things to many different people
To most people, Autism is a word. One they’ve heard rarely, most likely on TV – during a news bulletin perhaps – or in a movie. That’s how it was for me, too, before I received my diagnosis. Autism was a word that was a…
