Many years ago I used to get kidney stones and I can tell you they are SERIOUSLY painful. In fact, some people say they are more painful than childbirth.

I don’t know if you ever have something on your mind for days? You know, where it sits in the back of your mind and then germinates.

This morning I had woken in the night a few times and Johnathan was up early so we watched some children’s tv. There were a couple of episodes of Bluey.

As I have mentioned before (probably more than once) the autistic brain is formed in the person in the womb, so they are born with it.

There is a cat cafe in Glasgow and Kevin and Johnathan went there tonight for the first time. They enjoyed the time with the cats and the food was ok.

Well today we have had our old sofa removed as a new one is coming tomorrow. It was quite a weird feeling because we have had it since summer of 2011.

Now as you already know if you have read my posts before, changing plans or something is often too much for my son to handle even though he is 10 years old.

I must admit, I am coming to you from the perspective of having a high functioning child on the spectrum. I was about to say that he doesn’t have learning difficulties but I guess it’s exactly how you define them!

A change in scenery can be a momentous thing. Especially if you haven’t left the house for a while.

Do you find unexpected happenings a bit (I don’t know) disturbing or exciting or do you “take them in your stride” as I heard when I was young?

Now I’m not going to talk about people on the spectrum who get frustrated to start with. I want to begin with US when we get frustrated with them.

I want to talk to you about fantasy fiction. Well, I suppose in some ways ALL fantasy is fiction because it’s not real. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have certain fundamentals that need to be followed because it does.

Are there times you see something and you think “”yeah, that won’t work” or “come on, seriously, show me something sensible!”

My son Johnathan and his Dad play most evenings and I enjoy watching and chatting to them about what they are doing and the things I understand about their video games.

Smiling is an extremely important activity in life. Apparently it takes less muscles than it does to frown. Having said that, on my wedding day I smiled so much my face hurt on both sides of my mouth.

Yesterday, I sat down and was looking at my emails and wondering what was in them and in one there was a challenge for seven minutes to write What I really want to say is and just go and get it said.

“What?” you ask. “That’s ridiculous! Why on earth would you worry about ordering something?” Well, let me tell you a bit about autism.

I thought that today I would write about bits and bobs. They are little things you know or have learned for some reason or other.

Do you know, I have felt really bad because I missed it! It was actually yesterday and I just didn’t clock the fact. My brain and body have been so mixed up this last week.

One of the central things that people on the spectrum need is routine. Johnathan was in a terrible state on Monday Bank Holiday after Easter Sunday.