Mental Health
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Why does the day feel like it lasts for hours but night only feels like an hour?
After one of our worst nights in a long time, my son asked me a question that stopped me in my tracks. This post reflects on sleep, safety, neurodivergence, and how two people can live the same hours but experience them entirely differently. Continue reading
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Who Even Am I?
I changed everything to help my PDA son thrive — but somewhere in that process, I disappeared. This is the rawest thing I’ve written yet. Continue reading
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How do you say No?
Managing co-parenting, boundaries, and PDA — one ‘no’ at a time. No. Two letters.Easy to write.Easy to say.Yet one of the most powerful words in any language. And right now, it’s the word I’m struggling with the most. I’ve never been an assertive person. I’m a people pleaser. If someone asks me to do something, Continue reading
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Am I Autistic?
From all the parents I follow on social media there seems to be a lightbulb moment that they have, where they realise their child might be autistic, and then they start realising how similar their child is to them and of course they realise they might be autistic too. Now a year ago I knew Continue reading
The Questions of My Child 