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Chameleon /crazy Carrie
There was an article in the paper I read recently about autistic women being chameleons and “little psychiatrists”. Did they base the...

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Apr 192 min read


Birthday review
Boxing helped. I thought it would be a good idea to do a review of my birthday, at least I can reread it prior to next year. Overall, it...

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Feb 172 min read


Holidays, good or bad, discuss.
It’s been a long time since my last post as I’ve been away, the other side of the world in New Zealand. I’ve had a week of jet lag but am...

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Nov 28, 20242 min read


Trip away
I never want to go away from my home where I feel so comfortable and safe but one of my offspring FORCED me to go down to London to see...

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Jul 11, 20242 min read


It's all in the head or on the head?
(I meant to post this last week but got caught up in other stuff and forgot, better late than never) It makes me laugh that I happily...

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Mar 5, 20243 min read


Birthdays, good or bad?
So Pema also says......LOl, I’m quoting her left, right and centre at the moment!! But she is very helpful!! As my readers may or may not...

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Feb 13, 20243 min read


Unexpected health stuff
I always think I’m going to write about one thing and then other things get in the way. Over christmas I had a random health thing crop...

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Jan 14, 20241 min read


Review of last year
I notice that some of the bloggers I follow had done recaps of last year and I thought it was a good idea. I have 3 rather different...

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Jan 7, 20242 min read


Turning into my mother?
I’m experiencing something which I’ve noticed before but seems to be getting more and more obvious. As I get older, I quite often catch a...

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Dec 19, 20232 min read


Being liked
I always find the run up to Christmas challenging but it also gets easier each year. I used to have a melt down every October at the...

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Dec 3, 20232 min read


Meeting new people, doing new things.
Another very busy weekend. This time I made my way to the Lakeland Comic Festival. The Lake District is very beautiful even in the rain....

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Oct 4, 20233 min read


Meeting up with a friend and thinking about clothes
I’m still adjusting to being me. I’ve revisited Pema Chodron’s book as I tend to find whatever bit I start reading is often helpful. So...

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Sep 3, 20232 min read


Talk the talk or Walk the Walk
So I’m now relaxing after our family visit. Overall I think it went well. After “outing” myself as neurodiverse we had our first full on...

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Aug 28, 20232 min read


Happy Families
Over the weekend I outed myself to some more of the extended family as neurodiverse which has been the right thing to do but it makes me...

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Aug 21, 20231 min read


Strong Female Characters (2)
I got back from holiday and there was the magazine to put out. Coincidentally we were short of a book review so I put one together from...

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Aug 12, 20233 min read


A strong holiday read
I’m just back from holiday, I will probably do another post all about holidays and how difficult I find them but for this post I will...

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Aug 2, 20232 min read


A bit more printing
This time, adding a second colour. It’s funny that I spent all week thinking about doing it, putting it off, doing other stuff....then...

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Jul 18, 20231 min read


Migraines or recovery time?
A quiet week. I needed to go slow after my stressful weekend. As I expected I had a migrainous episode after the group cello thing (which...

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Jul 1, 20233 min read


And it's official
Now I am officially neurodiverse! Masked autistic traits with some ADHD. I bloody knew it! My therapist threw the word “neurodiverse”...

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May 27, 20232 min read


Neuro diversity and creativity
There has been lots of stuff recently about ADHD and I find that if I ever mention it, people often make the rejoinder “ oh that’s really...

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Mar 17, 20232 min read