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  • How to Come Up With Ideas for Writing

    People often stop me at the supermarket whilst I'm discussing the merits of baby carrots and pre-cut salad bags with Janine Ripper inside the David Jones

  • Buzzwords

    Buzzwords. Remember those? For those of you not ofay with the word it means: “A word or phrase, often an item of jargon, that is fashionable

  • A Role Reversal

    WISE WORDS I THINK YOU’LL AGREE   A long, long time ago in a blogosphere far, far away, a student was being taught how to excel

  • Annoisey Saturday

        Picture the scene. It’s a quiet Saturday morning. The microwave has just pinged. You open the door, and out wafts the smell of hot

  • A Survival Guide

    AUTISM - A SURVIVAL GUIDE Monday is the beginning of the working week. I know. I know. Take a breath in and exhale. I wish I

  • THE MOMENT THAT I KNEW…

    I will never forget the moment that I knew. An innate, visceral kind of knowing that left no doubt in my mind and, momentarily, no air

  • Playing the disability card

    Ok, here’s the deal. I don’t want to write this month’s blog post. So instead of having some valid excuse I’m going to play the Autism

  • The journey begins

    So this momentous moment – the moment that I knew, deep down, that I have autism – had been and gone. The bells had stopped ringing,

  • The holiday of a lifetime

    It’s the beginning of May 2017, and preparation for the approaching Perry family holiday to the Sunshine Coast in July is nearly complete. Flights booked? Check.

  • Hands up if you have ever been bullied?

    Did you know that on Friday it’s National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence which is now in its seventh year? Let’s be clear on

  • Eight months on: what diagnosis means to me

    As I sit back and reflect on the eight months that have passed since returning from Destination Diagnosis (or the Sunshine Coast, as it’s more commonly

  • The enigma that is human connection

    One of the recommended post-autism diagnosis ‘next steps’ was to identify my strengths, and where possible, build them into the various areas of my life. In