My new playground

You'll have to be a gardener/grower to find this photo as exciting as I do.
This new space is 28 x 16 foot (there's another 4 ft behind the fence) and I can't wait to get stuff growing in it. It's like a proper veg plot.

Unfortunately one of the lads helping to prepare the area and move the fence did his back in today and I feel really bad. I hope he'll be okay.

It seems really silly now to think we left that area overgrown and neglected for 7 years.


It's 6 days until my assessment now and I'm currently back in the "I know what I know" phase. I expect the doubt will return before Monday.

I've been thinking a lot todayabout how difficult it is to get by in the world if we don't feel we fit; how there's a version of normal we try to confine ourselves to, and how some of us spend our whole lives trying to be that normal and not being our own normal. We pretend and it's surprising how good some of us get at it. But it's sad because it's hard work and for many of us, hiding and fighting how/who we really are for years in order to be acceptable, leaves an underlying unhappiness. So I wrote this tiny blog thing: Honesty


Autism awareness month begins today and world autism awareness day is tomorrow. I hope anyone who reads this will please take a few moments to think about how much you yourself understand autism and how many preconceived ideas you have.

There's a BBC Horizon programme about autism on BBC 2 at 9pm tonight: Living with autism
(thanks to my sister Sophie for letting me know that was on)