A PLACE IN THE SUN

The Covid 19 Pandemic wrecked many countries’ economies, jettisoned jobs and meant that workplaces went from being deemed ‘unsafe’ to being the responsibility of the individual; there was no longer a sense that you could get qualifications and go to somewhere that would look after you; you had to do it all yourself. Alongside this, […]

Capital Punishment

Life before the brain injury was, looking back. A fairly straightforward case of Imposter Syndrome (sic?). Life afterwards, however, was characterised by this sense that I am being punished for something; that, deep down, I’ve been ‘found out’ as sub-optimal and now that my coping mechanisms have been removed, life is going to Let Me […]

The Elephant House

The subtle shifts of tone and sentiment over the years have been crazy making; you remember the time when your father expressed a desire to come and visit on a week night to help you celebrate your son’s birthday . You asked him to come at the weekend, but said that it would have to […]

Son of Zipless Hal … The truth will always out.

I have, for years, found it outrageous that the System, or Local Government infrastructure or whatever it is supposed to be does not acknowledge or provide support for children with Autism without dragging it’s heels in the worst possible way. Years drag on; transitional educational stages are missed and, by extension, social milestones too; parents […]

Neurofatigue

It’s not a term that I heard until recently, and only then did some things fall into place: Dropping off my son at his dad’s when he was little and him crying, not wanting to leave me; being firm and leaving because he was entitled to a relationship with his father; Coming home and collapsing […]

Quintet

The End of Silence

To end the silence takes courage; to say the things that go against the ‘norm’; to challenge the way things have become; to step out of the shadows of one’s own insecurities and say THIS IS WHO I AM. Sixteen years ago the universe saw that I was on the backfoot from a series of […]

sick and tired of being sick and tired

This statement is something of a cliche in AA meetings; it is often described as the state which precedes the push to get clean and sober. Twenty five years clean and sober, however, I can tell you that this is the state that can happen under many different circumstances. I received an email on Friday […]

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