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Cat cafe and autism

There is a cat cafe in Glasgow and Kevin and Johnathan went there tonight for the first time. They enjoyed the time with the cats and the food was ok.

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Sooooo….what’s next?

Well today we have had our old sofa removed as a new one is coming tomorrow. It was quite a weird feeling because we have had it since summer of 2011.

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Plans and people with autism

Now as you already know if you have read my posts before, changing plans or something is often too much for my son to handle even though he is 10 years old.

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Learning Difficulties and Autism

I must admit, I am coming to you from the perspective of having a high functioning child on the spectrum. I was about to say that he doesn’t have learning difficulties but I guess it’s exactly how you define them!

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Unexpected Happenings

Do you find unexpected happenings a bit (I don’t know) disturbing or exciting or do you “take them in your stride” as I heard when I was young?

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Frustration and autism

Now I’m not going to talk about people on the spectrum who get frustrated to start with. I want to begin with US when we get frustrated with them.

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Fantasy? Really?

I want to talk to you about fantasy fiction. Well, I suppose in some ways ALL fantasy is fiction because it’s not real. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have certain fundamentals that need to be followed because it does.

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Unusual things

Are there times you see something and you think “”yeah, that won’t work” or “come on, seriously, show me something sensible!”

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Surprise!

My son Johnathan and his Dad play most evenings and I enjoy watching and chatting to them about what they are doing and the things I understand about their video games.

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SMI-LE

Smiling is an extremely important activity in life. Apparently it takes less muscles than it does to frown. Having said that, on my wedding day I smiled so much my face hurt on both sides of my mouth.

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