If you'd told me ten years ago that I'd become someone who could walk into a school meeting, sit across from a panel of professionals, and confidently tell them what…
You know that thing where you're lying in bed at night, and your brain decides now is the perfect time to replay every single conversation you had that day? Yeah.…
Supporting big feelings with understanding — not control Emotional regulation. It's one of those phrases that sounds very clinical and straightforward — until you're sitting on a supermarket floor next…
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How many people grew up quietly feeling like they just didn't quite fit? Not dramatically, not in a way anyone could point…
For a lot of autistic children, the want to connect is absolutely there. It's not that they don't care about friendship — it's that the path to it can feel…
Last week, I took my eldest son, Blake, clothes shopping. It's something I only do once a year at most, because it's an incredibly stressful experience for everyone involved. But…
I talk a lot about the hard stuff. Because it is hard. And I never want anyone reading this to feel like they're the only one who's struggling. But today…
Okay, so I am absolutely not going to use the phrase "Autism Spectrum Disorder" and then hit you with a wall of medical jargon. If you've already Googled autism and…
When people hear the word autism, they tend to picture a spectrum. And yes — that's exactly what it is. But what most people don't fully grasp is just how…
When we think about autism and how it's represented in everyday life, television often plays a bigger role than we realise. The characters we watch week after week can quietly…