Sensory Processing Disorder

Too loud

October 4, 2012
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A common complaint from Heidi these school holidays. Everything is too loud. She spent the better part of 4 days under a pile of blankets, hiding in the dark, quiet as a mouse, away from everyone, isolated, happy. Last term Heidi had the best term she has ever had at school, there was lots of [...]

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Real Life Wednesday

September 12, 2012
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Real life is shirts on inside out so the seams don’t itch. Real life is washing toys in the bathroom. Real life is puddles of water everywhere from the toy washing. Real life is chasing the cat around the house with a wet face washer to give him a bath too. Real life is children [...]

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Magical Pearl Jelly Sensory Play

August 6, 2012
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I spotted these at a temporary stall in our local shopping centre a few weeks ago. The girls and I chose three packets, blue, rainbow and green. They don’t look too fancy while still in the packet. Empty them out into a container: Add water: After about an hour they look blurry – no the [...]

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Swimming lessons are fun.

June 25, 2012

She sits beside the pool, her body vibrating with anticipation. Feet arched up high tippy toes tapping on the ground. Her body bounces up and down in accompaniment as her hands flap the air around her. “is it time?” she asks looking at everything but the clock to her right. Even if she did look [...]

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What is it about ALDI?

May 13, 2012

Just recently we had cause to go to ALDI – I wanted to get some inexpensive frozen meals for mothers’ day so hubby could just pop everything into the oven and ta-da delicious mothers’ day dinner with minimal clean up after. I walked out with a screaming headache after 15 minutes in the store. Husband [...]

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I am that mum.

May 4, 2012
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I am that mum. The one whose daughter went to school in a short sleeved summer dress on a chilly autumn, almost winter day (11C at 3pm). I am that mum. The one whose daughter wears long winter weight leggings all year round. Even on 40C summer days. I am that mum. The one whose [...]

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Stuff With Thing to ‘I Wish I Didn’t Have Aspergers: #AutismPositivity2012

April 30, 2012
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You may remember Annie’s post about how nervited she was about the concert at Federation Square. I want to say thank  you to all the supportive and helpful comments on that post, it really helped Annie make it through the lead up the day itself without falling apart. (making music with the salt, pepper and [...]

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A visit to the coffee shop

April 11, 2012

Soy warm chocolate, about 5 minutes in, doing great 10 minutes in drink finished, starting to notice the noise, feeling a little uncertain. 15 minutes in lying down beside me, “dis muzics is too noisy”. 20 minutes in, Mummy has finished her coffee, we are paying the bill and going before I push her limits [...]

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Sensory Play – Painting at the Park

April 10, 2012
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My girls love to create, to make and do. Recently the girls and our friend A have been busy at our local park building teepee style cubbies out of fallen branches. On one visit the girls wanted to make paintings to go in their cubbies, they had found some old pieces of chipboard and took [...]

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Sea World on Gold Coast

January 13, 2012

My Dad was lucky enough to be given vouchers for Sea World as a Christmas gift and he very generously shared them with us during our recent trip to the Gold Coast. One of the first things we did was go to see the Dora the Explorer stage show and Heidi was lucky enough to [...]

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