This weekend I spent more time outside than I remember having done in years. Highlights included time in the woods with my son at the excellent Tori’s Forest School, down my new permaculture allotment (photos to be added when there are some plants in) and an afternoon at ‘The Land‘ in Little Eaton a beautiful…
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A poem I composed
About my allotment in the autistic writer’s group I am currently participating in/ I’m really pleased with it 🙂 Birdsong sprinkled in the background of the morning. Blue vaulted above their heads when they looked up. Brown hands and feet from the earth, brown faces and skin from the sun. Calm; that was all…
Lets get back to the old school – ways of working…
Sitting at the end of probably the worst week ever that would have been possible to begin a year with. Four days in, we have entered another national lockdown, with the children off school again, after having been back only one day. I am sitting here getting angrier and angrier with the issues I am…
Sex and Autism: a gender-queer perspective.
I am a late identified autistic individual who was born biologically female and remains so, but identifies as genderqueer. My sexuality and, following on from this, relationships, have been diverse exciting and often challenging because of the path less trodden that I have chosen, but also because the difference of autistic experience I that have…
Covid-19 lock down in photos
Although I have found lock down incredibly stressful and challenging, as most people have, a review of my photo stream on Google of the last five months reveals just how much fun, love and enjoyment we have had together since we all started socially distancing in March. Highlights for me have included developing my sour-dough…
Autistic Women Matter.
It is time to close the mental health gap that autistic women experience Autistic people deserve good mental health just as much as their non-autistic peers. Jenn Layton Annable, an autistic woman and master’s student, explains why good quality co-produced research is needed to address this. Autistic people matter. Autistic women matter. There is, however,…
My first authorship has been published!
The book that I contributed to (here is a link to the publication page), as my first authorship, was published last month. We received some really positive testimonials from experts across a number of fields on the blurb section on the back. ‘This must-read research-based text represents a step-change in our understanding of neurodiversity;…
If you think you’re beaten you are…
A rather fab poem that I return to from time to time when I am feeling deflated. I like the sentiment. It reminds me to keep going and enjoy the journey. “If you think you are beaten, you are If you think you dare not, you don’t, If you like to win, but you think…
Dissertation work and life progress
The last three months have been so fraught trying to work and study and parent during lock-down I have hardly had time to think, let alone write about what has been going on. The good news is that I have completed my literature review which has had some amazing feedback (including an offer for support…
Hope – a letter from my long past.
Hope Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune–without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chillest…