Looking for Autism Friendly Dinner Clubs in Melbourne? These groups are Diversity Friendly which means those attending will be diverse. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes the question is do you WANT to do it?
sometimes want is irrelevant and the question is do you NEED to do it?
sometimes whether you want or need is irrelevant and the question is COULD you do it?
and sometimes whether you want, need or believe you could is irrelevant
and the question is would you GIVE IT A TRY?

sometimes we pamper and pander and fail to teach children that each of these questions are relevant at different times and that it is a skill to recognise each and to know when one applies more than another. Read the rest of this entry »

My husband Chris and I are one of those couples people look at and get all ‘awww’ and ‘schucks’ and ‘you guys are just so cute’ about. And we are ‘old marrieds’, best pals, lovers, comrades, people who have shared a long 15 year journey together and just damned compatible and different enough to both glue us together and keep us being each our own person. So why didn’t we have kids? We were both childfree by choice – Dinks in urban slang today. But what were the nuts and bolts of that choice? Were his reasons for this choice the same as mine? And how did us being a childfree couple start out? Were we always this way, before we met, even since our teens, since our childhoods? Read the rest of this entry »

Quite simply any pouty depressed or pity-partying teen with a narcissistic/megalomanic streak and looking for a cause is a potentially eager tool ripe for the picking as another IS pawn. Read the rest of this entry »

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Central hypoventilation means your brain keeps forgetting to keep you breathing. See, we have this thing called a ‘respiratory drive’ and this makes us keep breathing. This is why we don’t easily ‘just die’, because there are two things keep us alive; a beating heart and a respiratory drive. If either of those fail partially then we will have problems. Read the rest of this entry »

“30 per cent of children with an autism diagnosis at age two no longer fit the criteria at age four.”

“early identification of autism results in a more favourable outcome, the problem is children in their toddler years, especially boys, can exhibit behaviours that can mimic those of an autistic child.”

““This isn’t a case of over-diagnosis,” she says, ignoring Gnaulati’s argument that health professionals aren’t properly trained to differentiate real autistic behaviour from normal toddler behaviour.”

““Many children, when they’re being assessed by a professional, especially in the younger years, shut down and behave strangely. ”

http://ottawacitizen.com/…/rises-in-autism-and-adhd… Read the rest of this entry »

Do you think Munchausen by Proxy is not real? Or that it could not possibly effect a carer with an autistic child? Read the rest of this entry »

Einstein actually NEVER FAILED MATHS and NEVER FAILED SCHOOL . Right handed Einstein was also probably not an exceptional visual thinker. His exceptional maths skills from before age 15 and strong ability to acquire foreign languages, indicate he was predominantly a mathematical and verbal thinker. Read the rest of this entry »

This month’s artwork is titled ‘Emergence’. Read the rest of this entry »

SOME STATISTICS
Suffocation abuse is perpetrated by carers with Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (previously called Munchausen’s Syndrome By Proxy, or MSBP), 76%-98% of whom are the mothers of those they abuse. “In a survey of 51 clinics treating infant apnea, 54 of 20,090 children (0.27% or 1 in 200 of these children) had been subjected to MSBP”. Read the rest of this entry »