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23.01.2022 Merry Christmas to all who celebrate the season! Be kind to yourselves. When things get a little crazy, remember to pause and breathe. May many magical moments come your way.

23.01.2022 This looks like a fun one.

22.01.2022 ADHD cannot be formerly diagnosed in just one appointment. https://www.additudemag.com/the-additude-interview-answer/

21.01.2022 Yes, yes! Read to pets, teddy bears or dolls. Even reading a bedtime story over FaceTime to a younger cousin. Anything to give our children the opportunity to practice reading out loud is fabulous.

18.01.2022 I’m a sensory seeker and sensory avoider I’m both

17.01.2022 Your best is enough. You are awesome. https://www.facebook.com/1430317079/posts/10221145096163592/

17.01.2022 Thanks Autistic Wolf for posting this.

17.01.2022 Judging a parent and branding them inconsistent, weak or too anxious is the new Refrigerator Mother theory (albeit gender). It is the fastest, most powerful for...m of disconnecting, disempowering and disintegrating the confidence between a parent and child and you know what? It’s absolute rubbish. I can’t even give you an estimate on the amount of sole and coupled parents who have been through the horrific system of having these lies fed to them over and over and over. How connected to your child would you be if you were consistently criticised as their parent? How confident would you be in your ability to know who they are and what they need? How willing would you be to try new things, step outside your comfort zone or seek answers elsewhere if the one message being drilled home was that your child’s BEHAVIOUR or CHALLENGES are your fault? It’s not true. It is not true. You are being lied to. If your child is autistic, ADHD, PDA, any form of neurodivergent, they may need different things to survive and to thrive. Hell, any child for that matter! What do they need most? Happy and empowered families. How do we give that to them? By giving ourselves permission to disconnect from people who gaslight, blame, dismiss and look down on us as parents. People are identified and diagnosed autistic because they tick boxes of difference across several areas, which means they’re organically, inherently ATYPICAL. We cannot make our autistic children non autistic, no matter how we parent. Our children need love, nurturing, presence, connection, engagement, understanding, patience, compassion, and advocacy. Any professional, family member or friend that signals out a message of inadequacy to parents of disabled children is not an appropriate support. It is okay, and important to take our time and unlearn all we’ve learnt about parenting in order to create space for a new way to understand and connect as a family. You are not failing if you are trying. You are not inadequate if you’re asking for help when you need to. It is good and right to be flexible, to change our minds, to care for ourselves as well as our children. It is healthy to make mistakes and learn along the way. It is information, it is data and we can use it to create change. We are all different. Our families are all different. Even if another autistic family or parent of an autistic child appears to be in control, you are not failing. They are not you and you are not them. These judgemental opinions and unsolicited advice hurt people. So much. One morning, when I was vacuuming up the stuffing out of another toy from my beautiful sensory seeking littlie (something totally normal in our home and not something turned into a goal to prevent or behaviour to change), I asked myself: What if every single family in society was experiencing the same challenges, the same tensions, the same lifestyle as ours? and I realised. I realised my pain and fear of failing my children came directly from comparison, and from the advice to be stronger, more consistent, to try 101 more ways to change behaviours in my children. If we were all parenting and living this way (now known to me as autistic culture), then I’d have a community of solidarity, kinship and this would be our normal. This IS normal. This is our family normal, our autistic culture. You can create that for yourself. Communities of families you belong with. Support and connection with other families who experience the challenges, yet are happy and content. Our autistic ways, our autistic behaviours are not wrong or bad or needing fixing, and they are NOT caused by inconsistent parenting. Please, give yourselves a break. We are autistic. We think, be and do differently. We need to. You are NOT failing your children. What if there is NO PROBLEM? . . . KF . . Image Credit: Ketut Subiyanto

16.01.2022 Thanks Maggie for reposting this. Once you are aware of how learning can happen, so many opportunities arise that are much more than sitting at a desk.

16.01.2022 For anyone who’s heard about Executive Functioning and has still been wondering what it’s all about.

16.01.2022 Also a time many girls with undiagnosed ASD will struggle. https://www.additudemag.com/executive-function-skills-adhd/

16.01.2022 5 More Easy Ways to Help Children Build Emotional Intelligence

15.01.2022 Thank you Minds Journal for this one. Tomorrow is another day.

14.01.2022 The diagnosis process can take years. That’s years with little to no support for children and families. What a difference a more streamlined process would make. In this case, knowing which questions to ask and which answers to pay attention to will help. In the end it comes down to listening to the parents and taking their concerns seriously. ... https://www.spectrumnews.org//listening-to-parents-can-c/

13.01.2022 Sometimes we have unrealistic expectations of our teachers. They can only do so much with large class sizes.

10.01.2022 I’ve just learnt something from this blog. https://www.gottman.com/blog/kids-not-listening/

09.01.2022 "Just because a student is quiet and well behaved at school doesn't mean they're coping." Last year, we asked a group of our Autistic mentees to share something... they wished every adult would understand. We think this powerful insight from a Year 9 mentee applies to many young people, especially during these uncertain times. See more

08.01.2022 What a fabulous idea - for the right handers though.

06.01.2022 Thanks for this reminder @amomsviewofadhd and @additudemag. So often this is overlooked.

06.01.2022 No need to buy an air hockey table. Try this.

06.01.2022 Thank you Maggie Dent for reposting this great explanation from Perth Occupational Therapy.

05.01.2022 Not sure that everyone’s GP will be able to answer all the questions on this list. Worth asking and having a discussion all the same. https://www.additudemag.com/choosing-a-doctor-for-treatment/

04.01.2022 Thanks OT Toolbox for this list.

03.01.2022 I wonder how we are doing here.

03.01.2022 Something for our kids that love to chew. http://chewigem.com.au/

02.01.2022 Yes this does look like fun!