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Autistic parenthood: Living with mum guilt
Content note: transphobia, death, grief, mentions of assault and murder, trauma. I’ve been struggling with a lot of things lately and it all centres around being a mum and not feeling good enough for the job. My feelings of mum guilt is massive. I feel I’m not doing enough for Little Man. I feel guilty…
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Autistic parenthood: Who am I?
I’ve been off the last few weeks, not really feeling myself, I’m content but also really low. Nothing has been interesting me, I just get up do whatever I’m doing and then wait for bed time, to get up and do it all again. I have lots of projects ending, projects beginning, lots of waiting…
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Living with Seasonal Affective Disorder
Content warning: poor mental health. During the winter (which seems to be an ever-growing season in the UK) I am a husk of myself, a sad, low energy person who wants to crawl into a hole and sleep for a long time. I hate the darkness, the cold, the drab lifeless streets, the wind and…
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Autistic parenthood: I wasn’t ready for this!
Until I became a parent I didn’t quite knew how much having a child would completely turn my life upside down. In the blink of an eye I went from a single person to a wife, from an individual to a mother. I created the most amazing person and I was not ready for his…
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Autistic parenthood: sensory overload
Sometimes parenting as an Autistic person looks like this… My ear defenders now live on the hook in the hall. They’re no longer secreted away until I need them for an activity with big noisy crowds. They are front and centre in the hallway. They need to be easy access because I never know when…