Essays from Kristy Forbes exploring PDA, autistic experience, parenting, identity, care, systems and the ordinary moments that shape family life.
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ThereĀ have been many times in our family where life felt soĀ hard and stayed feeling so hard for much longer than I expected it to.
I would spend weeks thinking that once we got through a particular thing, once everyo...
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There was a long stretch of years where I believed I was failing my children because I couldn't get up.
I'd absorbed all the messaging about play. Get on the floor. Follow their lead. Be animated, be available, enter...