Rome 2023

Apologies for the non-bookish content, but I thought I'd record a few details about my trip to Rome with an autistic ten year old daughter! Our flight was on Friday and we had spent a week or two prior to that on very real tenterhooks! This was her first time abroad, her first time flying,… Continue reading Rome 2023

Book Review: A Kind of Spark, Elle McNicholl

Ever since Ms. Murphy told us about the witch trials that happened centuries ago right here in Juniper, I can't stop thinking about them. Those people weren't magic. They were like me. Different like me.I'm autistic. I see things that others do not. I hear sounds that they can ignore. And sometimes I feel things… Continue reading Book Review: A Kind of Spark, Elle McNicholl

The Rosie Result, Graeme Simsion

I’m not a person with autism any more than I’m a person with lesbianism. I’m lesbian. I’m autistic. When I get a cold, I have a cold; I’m a person with a cold and I want to get rid of it. Medical help appreciated. But being autistic and lesbian—that’s who I am, and I’m not interested in anyone trying to cure me of who I am.