When Ethan was going through the diagnosis process I was often asked if Ethan suffered from anxiety. The answer to this was always no. In-fact it sometimes felt that Ethan took lots of things in his stride, something that shouldn’t supposedly happen with autism. Since the soft play incident anxiety has reared it’s ugly head. […]
I don’t know if it is the Autism diagnosis or just becoming a mum, but age is something that really concerns me now. Age for me means getting older, getting older means we have less time on this planet. Which in turn means that one day we will no longer be here to look after
I loved lego as a child and when I knew we were having a boy I imagined all of the lego sets we could build together. So duplo was where I knew we needed to start. I brought Ethan his first set when he was one and a half. It was a Winnie The Pooh
To the bully at soft play, you are young, five or six, it’s very typical behaviour for you to not let an unknown child in to the ‘den’ that you have made at soft play. Pushing and pinning my son to the wall is not! Our little boy is non-verbal, you may have thought he
We have been a family of four for ten weeks now and it has been an adjustment for all of us. My biggest fear at the beginning of our ‘four’ journey was would Ethan accept Little E and thankfully Ethan adores his little sister. There is still a long way to go on their sibling
