tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51483861223688527712024-02-19T07:47:47.352-08:00Reality Bites!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148386122368852771.post-76655555664196631602012-12-10T08:38:00.000-08:002012-12-10T08:38:29.990-08:00Hiding away...<i><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Its been a while since I have thought about this blog....</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I know that I should be connecting with other *autism* mums out there...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I know that the support received from parents who *get it* would help me tremendously...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I just haven't been available...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I am just tired, so tired of living with autism....</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Is this it?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Is this my life?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Is this my future?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I read blogs written by autistic adults. They make me feel bad. They say I must accept my child as he is.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I do accept him. I do love him with all of my being.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>But life is hard.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Its not what I thought my life would be....</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I am tired, so tired...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I need to go looking for more mums, more support and more understanding...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Are you out there?</i></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148386122368852771.post-26017174646831512312012-07-05T11:31:00.000-07:002012-07-05T11:58:34.905-07:00Remember our children!<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This post has been nagging at me for the last few hours, although in reality </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this post has been sitting on the back burner for a few weeks!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As of yesterday, the autism community has been in an uproar over a mindless, extremely hurtful and spiteful comment by the rapper known as 50 Cents.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This made me stand up and decide to speak my mind.... right now!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">First of all I want to mention <a href="http://www.generationrescue.org/latest-news/jenny-mccarthy/a-mother-warrior-is/" style="background-color: lime;" target="_blank">Jenny McCarthy</a>. I am sure that you all know who she is. If you don't... then perhaps you don't have a child with autism. I am not going to wax lyrical about this warrior mummy ~ it you would like to learn more about her, just hit google... although you may be tied up for days because there is a shit load of information out there!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The next person I would like to highlight is the man himself <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent" style="background-color: lime;" target="_blank">50 Cent</a>. Just click on his name and that will take you to his Wikipedia page!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The last person I want to add to this post is <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2168841/Holly-Robinson-Peete-writes-open-letter-50-Cent-makes-crude-autism-jibe.html" style="background-color: lime;" target="_blank">Holly Robinson Peete</a>. Holly is a extremely classy lady who I admire and respect. However, even she has risen to the bait and pulled out all the stops to make a point!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you have a child or a teenager or an adult with autism, then you will know that within the autism community, parents are extremely quick to judge one another. The infighting is horrific. The arguing over different therapies, to do or not do biomedical and the various diets can cause a lot of nastiness. I find the anger and hate absolutely mind boggling!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Parents, people, teachers, therapists....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ANY PERSON who is involved with autism...... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">PLEASE remember the children!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Let the BIG names come out with the big guns. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It doesn't matter if you don't agree with them. So what, who cares what they do.... What YOU must do is concentrate on your own child and the life that you lead. Why let the anger burn you, take hold of your emotions, cause you to get out there and fight. Each time you focus on the negativity you are losing that precious time with your child.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You are the most important person to your child. Don't waste your anger on something that you can do nothing about. I have seen a lot of blogs berating Jenny McCarthy and 50 Cents.... don't waste your emotion and your energy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thank you for reading this post. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This blog of mine is a relatively new one. I was hesitant to start this blog, however, I see so much diversity in the autism community and it really bothers me. I guess I want to create awareness that no matter whereabouts on the spectrum our child is, no matter the situation we find ourselves in, no matter our financial status.... we really need to stick together. We must support each other regardless of what we believe. Am I being naive? Perhaps!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just can't bear it...... here I am, a mother with a son who just happens to have autism. He is severely challenged with motor planning issues, sensory processing disorder and he is also non verbal! I have enough troubles in my life without having grief from other parents because I am not doing x,y and z!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will admit, I have been guilty of this myself....... BUT NO MORE!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to state right here, right now, that I will not judge another parent for the path they choose to take!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will also not beat myself up that I am not doing x, y and Z!!! :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Onwards and upwards!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were doomed right from the very start and I gotta tell you...... my son and his food have given me many a headache over the years!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His diet is extremely restrictive. Oh, he will eat breakfast for lunch and lunch for breakfast, however, offer him any new food and he will refuse to eat it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take tonight for example; he is mad about macaroni cheese, however, the cheese sauce has to been very runny and smooth. I guess this is a sensory *thing*! Pasta is all well and good, but what about the protein? I very sneakily diced up a small piece of cooked chicken and mixed it in with the good ol' mac and cheese!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, would you believe it, he found a teeny weeny piece of chicken and then that was that!! The dinner ended up in the bin! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadly, because of the autism, there is no way I can resort to bribery and blackmail ~ he just doesn't get it! :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What to do, what to do?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know what? Tomorrow is another day, I will think about it then! </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148386122368852771.post-60947078393405391702012-05-13T06:09:00.000-07:002012-05-13T06:09:41.934-07:00A touch of a cold....<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a sick boy... Well, he is not that sick, just a bit of a stuffy nose and feeling under the weather. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had all sorts of plans of things to do with him this weekend. Anyone who knows autism will be aware that engaging with our kids can be incredibly difficult. My son would much rather spend all of his time on the computer or iPad than actually *do* any type of activity with me!! :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He scuppered my plans by getting sick! I figured there was no point making too much of an effort, when he really is feeling lousy! So, I stepped back and let him spend his precious time doing what he loves best....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me? Well I also took it easy!! We have plenty of time.......</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148386122368852771.post-61093455841826385172012-05-08T12:22:00.000-07:002012-05-08T12:22:01.770-07:00Half an hour for me....<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have gained weight over the last three years and I don't like it. My clothes are too tight and as for that roll that sits above the waistband of my jeans... Waaah. Perhaps it is also an age thing. The skin on the top of each hand is beginning to look old, in fact my hands are beginning to look like my mother's hands!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't want to grow old................</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My friends talk about growing old gracefully. OK, let's be truthful here, only a few of my friends utter those words! The rest of us are desperate to hold back time. We talk the talk and discuss the whys and hows. We chatter like a troupe of monkeys and we giggle, oh how we giggle.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We don't want to grow old.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look, there is not a lot I can do about it!! Is there?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The one thing I am going to do is cut back on my <strike>chocolate</strike> eating and take up some exercise. The easiest and cheapest from of exercise for me is walking.... give me some time and I may throw in some running!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The beauty of having a teenager in the house is leaving him to keep an eye on his younger sibling. The sibling is twelve, however, he has special needs and I wouldn't like to leave him alone without a carer.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I waved bye bye to the kids and hit the road, so too speak. I put my head down and walked solidly for half an hour! You know what, it did me the world of good. I got in some exercise and also had some *time out*. Win win. x</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I came across the following site and thought it sounds like great fun....</span><span style="color: #274e13;">. </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">It's called <a href="http://www.showmyface.com/2012/05/six-word-saturday.html" target="_blank">Six Word Saturday and it's hosted by Cate at Show My Face</a>. </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">You describe your Saturday or a part of it, in six words.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps I am not alone, perhaps all mothers remember the birth of each child. Perhaps the occasion is so momentous that it is forever etched in our brains.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My husband was due to fly out of town on business, in fact he even got as far as the airport! Needless to say, after telling him that I was adamant that our treasure was about to be born, he cancelled his trip and came back home to me. He wasn't too pleased about the lack of progress and he went to bed in a grumpy mood!I hustled myself into the spare room to also try and get some sleep. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Around midnight, I needed to nip to the loo......... imagine my horror when I found that I had been swamped in blood. I can't tell you how scared I was! I was beside myself with worry and imagining the worst case scenario.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hospital staff also seemed to be on a go slow that night. However, by 2pm I was hooked up to monitors and reassured that all was right with my baby. Obviously it all began to get a bit sore (fricking painful if you really want to know!!). My husband duly requested an epidural for me (this was my second birth and my first was without pain relief, except for that ridiculous gas).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was extremely fortunate that my epidural was 100% text book! I then heard via the nursing sister that my gynie wouldn't be coming in until a more respectable hour....... What! This baby wanted to be born and my gynie wasn't coming.... I was so irritated! Anyway, we sat there until 6am! Yes I know we had only been there for four hours, but I have extremely quick births.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gynie eventually rocked up just after 6am, dressed in a suit no less and wearing white boots! After much pushing and panting without any pain, my boy arrived by 6.30am.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were over the moon and also a bit flabbergasted at the amount of hair on his head (my previous baby had been born without a hair on his head!). He was a big bonnie baby and I fell in love with him instantly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My husband had his cell phone with him, so I made a call to my mother to let her know the good news. Before blurting out "it's a boy", my mother said "Hello, are you ringing to wish me a Happy Birthday?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Hey Mum", I say. "Well actually, I am phoning to tell you that you have a grandson!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>HAPPY BIRTHDAY! </i></b></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5148386122368852771.post-71440664174828874942012-05-03T03:09:00.000-07:002012-05-03T03:09:15.241-07:00Reflections<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My son, he sits at the edge of an unloved patch of garden just outside my front door. He is a wee boy, still chewing on a dummy, still a baby really. He has found some ants, lots of scurrying tiny black ants. They fascinate him and he </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">continually tries to pick them up. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think to myself, wow, this is easy! What a good baby, amusing himself, happy, content..... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Little did I realize at the time, that his continuous repetitive behavior was an indicator for autism! </span><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am a mum</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A mum with a special needs child</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been walking this road for a while now</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has been quite an experience</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This blog is about my life with my child</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is about memories and reflections</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fingers crossed that this blog works! :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for reading my post xx</span></div>
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