Author: Diane

I’ll be completely honest with you... I used to be absolutely terrible at celebrating the small stuff. When you’re in survival mode, which is a place a lot of us…

When I tell people The Good Doctor is one of my all-time favourite shows, they sometimes assume it’s because I work in the TV industry. But honestly? It has nothing…

What I've Learned About Myself Through Raising Autistic Children I used to think I was pretty good at knowing myself. And then I had kids. Autistic kids. And everything I…

There are things you do as a parent that you never, ever imagined yourself doing. For me, one of those things was learning to play Fortnite. Now, if you'd told…

I've heard it more times than I can count. In supermarkets, at school gates, from relatives who should honestly know better by now. "But he doesn't look autistic." And every…

If you're the parent of an autistic child, there's a very good chance you're reading this with tired eyes. Maybe your child took hours to fall asleep last night. Maybe…

Let me paint you a picture of a typical mealtime in our house when the boys were younger. I’d spend time making what I thought was a perfectly reasonable dinner,…

Demasking sounds freeing — and it can be — but it can also feel incredibly overwhelming. So maybe it doesn’t need to start with the world. Maybe it starts small.…