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Of course you do, I wanna TELL you something awesome. OMG don’t we just neeeeeeeed hastag underscore bells and whistles and a motherfucking parade something awesome right now sitting here completely...
View ArticleConversations in the car
Every day on the way home from school I have about three minutes to get all the school goss out of Boo before he descends into a whirl of pent up ticks and whirs of stims that he has been valiantly...
View ArticleYou know you need to slap on some blusher or something when your kid comes in...
WOAH BABY, this week has been a wild ride. So when you last saw your narrator she was cursing other bloggers and having a great ol’ time with the hiccups or someshit. Good times. And then she started...
View Article…and I am not even sorry.
So MPS and I are sitting in the dark watching American Horror Story when Boo walks into the room with I AM TOTALLY NOT SHITTING YOU THREE MOTHERFUCKING SECONDS TO GO. Pause. He has something in his...
View ArticleSo ready
It is the last day of the school holidays. Boo is stimming his heart out, pacing up and down the house screaming ‘WE ARE MAKING A COMMERCIAL NOT A FREAK SHOW! (I have no idea) and has music he has...
View ArticleI love him dearly, but I believe he has been exposed to some bad influences.
I have been awake since 4am. Boo has been awake since before then I am sure, but around that time some rather loud shrieking was emanating from his room and startled me from my feverish slumber. As an...
View ArticleMy Baby Takes the Afternoon Train
Once a week I pick Boo up from the train station. I sit there, along with the other commuters, a few other mothers from the program he goes to – all wringing their hands like me – and a half dozen...
View ArticleThis article made me cry. With hope.
It is school holidays here. The last school holidays. The last ones Boo will ever have before we embark on the great unknown of day programs and ‘adulthood’. Right now he is mashing together Michael...
View ArticleLasts
On the weekend I did my last load of school uniforms. Ever. For 21 years, every motherfucking weekend I would start asking nicely and level up to seething while hunting around...
View ArticleMy heart started work today and I am a mess.
My tiny baby, all six foot billion of him, a jumbly mess of stims and chat-back, was surprisingly subdued this morning as we prepared for his FIRST DAY OF WORK AS A GUY OF THE WORLD OMG WHAT IS THIS...
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