Autism Archives - Julie Cross

Loving with Autism Update: Food Stories

Posted on June 19, 2020June 22, 2020 by Julie Cross

Loving with Autism Update: I am fairly certain any parent of any child on the spectrum will have a food story… about how they will only eat a certain colour of food or a certain texture… there are underlying sensory issues that contribute to all of this and as I completed my chapter about this […]

Podcast: #thomaskentcan..what we focus on grows

Posted on March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 by Julie Cross

#thomaskentcan… As many of you know I have helped Thomas start his own business, it has been difficult to find a job with Autism along for the ride and I was so tired of hearing everything he can’t do… and in case you don’t know my married name is ‘Kent’, so we called his business […]

A better feeling place is just a different ‘thought’ away

Posted on January 24, 2020January 22, 2020 by Julie Cross

Usually at this time of the year I am off doing a hike or some kind of adventure in nature… we have done the ‘3 Capes Trek‘ in Tasmania, the ‘Great Ocean Road Walk‘ in Victoria, the adventure that is ‘Hinchinbrook Island’ in Queensland and last year we did a 3 day horse ride in […]

Loving with Autism Update: Dreaming Big

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Julie Cross

A few weeks into #thomaskent can and we have been busy washing dogs, walking dogs, washing dogs, sitting houses, cleaning houses, washing houses… mowing lawns, making gardens, weeding gardens… Thomas is paying tor his own petrol, insurance and buys his own clothes and often his groceries… he doesn’t pay board just yet ? And so in true […]

The journey so far of… #thomaskentcan

Posted on December 18, 2019December 23, 2019 by Julie Cross

The journey so far of… #thomaskentcan. We are 3 weeks into Thomas starting his own business and, of course, I am by his side. I knew with the way I move through life it was always going to be a case of let’s just do it and see where it flows to… no being overly organised, […]

Loving with Autism – First week of Thomas Kent Can

Posted on December 11, 2019 by Julie Cross

Hello everybody, thank you all for liking my Thomas Kent Can page and for supporting me. I just want you to know that in my first full week at my new business I made $431.30! I have been washing cars, cleaning windows, mowing lawns, collecting cans and being my Mums driver and taking her to the airport. Oh […]

Who is the system working for exactly?

Posted on December 1, 2019December 2, 2019 by Julie Cross

Hello friends… thank you all so much for your love and support following the video Thomas and I did yesterday asking for your support in helping him start his business Thomas Kent Can and get a job… I just feel I need to explain where we have been in all of this process and […]

Loving with Autism Update: THOMAS KENT CAN!

Posted on November 30, 2019December 2, 2019 by Julie Cross

Loving with Autism Update: THOMAS KENT CAN! Thomas is starting his own business because he can’t get a job and we would love your support…please like and share his new Facebook page #thomaskentcan Here are some of the jobs that Thomas can do… but if you have a job that is not here, […]

Are you Living with Fear?

Posted on November 27, 2019December 2, 2019 by Julie Cross

Thomas may ‘Live with Autism’ but I get surprised sometimes by how many of us are ‘Living with Fear’ Do you know there will be new friends not made, songs not sung, dances not danced, dreams not realised and goals not achieved, there will be laughs not laughed, questions not asked, there will be parties […]

Loving with (Autism) Being Thomas Update: Foot in the Door Training

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Julie Cross

Loving with (Autism) Being Thomas Update: Thomas has been doing her Certificate 3 in Hospitality… this is Renee from ‘Foot in the Door Training’ where he is doing his Certificate… He is coming towards the end of his course and called in to see how Thomas was going and this is what she said… […]