Gordon and I were watching one of the many Michael Jackson tribute TV shows with Duncan snuggled up next to me on the sofa. He particularly ...

The media provides endless stupid when it comes to autism. The latest Daily Mail article has the fantastically asinine headline, " I he...

Lady wrote a post on her blog and allows me to post it here too. Please leave any comments with her. Here goes: ---------------------------...

Last week a reader asked for advice on how to tell children in his/her son's school class about his autism. I've discovered that s...

In January, a major UK children's charity, Action for Children, released a television advertisement ostensibly about the help they had o...

Now that the ASA have ruled that the monster ad did not breach their code of practise, I will publish in full the letter I submitted about t...

All of us who home educate our children in the UK will already know about the Badman review of home education in the UK (PDF link). I am sh...

The day began with the birthday boy, and king for the day, unwrapping his birthday present; a Hornby train set with a Percy engine. Later hi...

Having spent so much time with Duncan this week has given me time and space to think about him and autism and expectations. He was a very re...

We left on Monday. The flight wasn't until after 6pm but Duncan was awake shortly after 4am in his excitement. Not excitement that we we...

We'll be leaving in a few minutes. I've got everything ready; it's lots easier when there are only 2 of you. The boarding passes...

Gordon, lady and Thomas have just left to make the first leg of their journey to Jamaica leaving myself and Duncan behind. I've been thi...

There was something odd about the sky. It was the wrong colour and a peculiar big yellow ball was visible overhead. This might have been lin...

I wrote about the release of the recent report into the decades long, systematic, extreme and abhorrent violence, abuse and neglect. I have ...

We all knew what to expect. It is still shocking though when you read the report , or, as much of it as you can stomach. The people of the c...