Category: Autism

Loving with Autism Update: As I start to put my book on Autism together I have been asking Thomas if he is able to share some of his memories of being a little boy with Autism that couldn’t talk… as his language has increased slowly over the years he has surprised… and scared me, with […]

‘Street Food’ on Netflix could be called ‘Soul Food’… not only a show that educates about the culture, this history and the people… not only a show that stimulates your taste buds and makes you want to travel to experience all of the food experiences but a show that inspires you with the stories of […]

   Good morning friends, Julie Cross here back fresh from a workout, if I just waited ’til I did my hair, my makeup to come to you, I probably would never get round to it. Sometimes we’ve just got to take the passion when it shows up and go for it. So, tonight’s the […]

She wanted to dance but her ego/fear screamed, “No, sit down… what will people think”… but her soul/love whispered, “So, What does that matter, we just want to dance?” She wanted to speak but her ego/fear screamed, “You can’t do that what if they don’t like what you say or nobody comes?” … but her […]

I know I have a simple approach… and I really do believe so many ‘issues’ would be solved if we loved ourselves enough… When we loved ourselves enough we didn’t starve our bodies, when we loved ourselves enough we didn’t overeat and burden our bodies, we love ourselves, why would we do that, we would […]

Last night my Thomas took to the stage at the Brisbane Adults Only SHOW… He wanted to do it, he wrote his speech (an adaptation of his 18th speech), and a great opportunity for the audience, after hearing the stories of where he has been, to see and feel where he is now… When you […]

I am here sitting in the car… that is Thomas up there… what’s is he doing you may ask… well you see that is a brand new set of  traffic lights up there… used to be a round-a-bout… now I don’t get why this is so interesting… more interesting than the things I think are interesting… […]

She is somebody I have known for a very long time, she used to be my very best friend… we chatted regularly and I always appreciated her advice… she was wise and gently directed me with her thoughts and opinions…sometimes I listened and took her advice and sometimes I didn’t… and so often realised I […]

Some Lessons from Grief…. maybe you know somebody going through it…chances are we all will at some stage.. 10 years since losing my Flash, this is some of what I have learnt about Grief! 1. It doesn’t come with a tick off box! 2. Everybody ‘does it’ differently. 3. When you don’t know what to […]