I'm tucking Thomas in to bed and he says, "if it was a choice between you dying and me dying, I'd want to die because I love yo...

Lady with her Grandma and Pippi. My girl is growing up! A week has passed since Lady turned 11. I still don't understand how I can have ...

The questionnaire on autism blogs I wrote about earlier (and if you can, offer to complete one yourself) made me think about something I ta...

Duncan and I took his brother and sister to summer scheme. He asked to look in the charity shop and being in no hurry, I parked the car and ...

One of the most prevalent unsubstantiated claims about autism (after the "lack of empathy" myth) is the idea that autistic childre...

My Dad called around just after lunchtime. Lady and Thomas were at the leisure centre for summer scheme, so only myself and Duncan were at h...

Many bloggers today are reprinting a slightly altered version of the article on chiropractic Simon Singh wrote for The Guardian . Unlike sc...

The first week of summer scheme was a great success. Thomas informed me that it was excellent and that he didn't even know he'd make...

I am so sick of this. There are some people who choose publicise their feeling of rage, hate and shock at having given birth to autistic chi...

Lady and Thomas start summer scheme today. It lasts all day from 9 to 5. Thomas has never done anything like this before and was a little ne...

My brother and I swapped offspring for the weekend. I drove a car load of children west to his place on Friday, leaving for home a few hours...

I've already mentioned this and once again call on anyone with an autistic child, formally diagnosed or not, to answer some questions fo...

I was contacted recently with this request: I am a student from Queen's University Belfast and I am currently studying a masters in Auti...

I just discovered a new site, Homoeopathy Ireland . It's for a clinic in Wexford claim to specialise in the "leading childhood epid...

Duncan just laid out the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, eggs and butter out on the kitchen work top. He then set out a bowl, measuring scales a...

While some of my country folk were marching up and down the streets of our cities and towns, we chose to head for the soft paths of the coun...