sleep deprivation
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Have the clocks ever been normal?
Living with parenting exhaustion—sleep struggles, school pressures, and the reality of raising a neurodivergent child when time never feels like your own. Have the clocks ever been normal? Continue reading
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Are there actually dead people in the ground?
A tired parent reflects on a child’s blunt question about death, cemeteries, and how children understand dying — with exhaustion, honesty, and dark humour. Continue reading
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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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Can you watch me do this?
My son is intense. Once he wants your attention, he pulls you in and you’re not leaving until he decides. And 99% of the time, the person he needs is me. The person whose attention he wants is me. The moment he locks onto me, I’m already quietly planning my escape route because I know… Continue reading
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Why doesn’t the Earth fall down?
We were on day 7 of the Easter Holidays, in those 7 days I had had 7 sleepless nights from my neurodivergent child, approximately 15 wake ups during those 7 nights (on average 2 a night), I had answered approximately 100 questions (on average of 14 questions per day), probably more actually, and I was… Continue reading