Essays from Kristy Forbes exploring PDA, autistic experience, parenting, identity, care, systems and the ordinary moments that shape family life.
I'm a person. I'm just like everyone else and I don't have all the answers for every situation for every family.
What I might implement in my home with my family might be detrimental to yours and really unhelpful.
What...
I have families emailing me often, to share with me about how brilliant their autistic child is, including their adult autistic child. They share about how their child works, studies, is an artist or a musician or enjoys...
Yesterday, we had someone come to our home to carry out an appraisal on the house (valuing the home).
When I got out of bed, the house was absolutely trashed. Our home is pretty much always messy first thing in the morn...
Sometimes I think we need to take stock of the ways in which we place undue pressure onto ourselves around who we are.
So many of us in the neurodivergent community are in the process of 'healing'. Healing from trauma, ...
In our home, we have an open and ongoing dialogue around equity, equality and how this might look within our family.
We teach our children through examples and conversations about broader societal inequities they’re abl...
Around six months ago, an email was forwarded to me by our company manager from a client, letting me know that after just over a year with me, they were moving on.
I felt a pang of panic, and a touch of sadness that I’d...
This morning in therapy I took a deep dive, head first into some pretty challenging work on myself.
As many will know, I’m transparent in the ways in which I share particular aspects of my life.
Currently, my husband a...
I woke up this morning with ‘that’ feeling. The one where I’m already anxious before my eyes open and my brain boots up.
My feet are rubbing together furiously and I’m rocking on my side, my organic autistic movement for ...