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Mother of Shrek: Words create worlds
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Shrek in German means fear. My son is not frightening - hes autistic. Tuesday, 26 April 2011. Ultural perception of disability has long standing historical influences and has been shaped by fear of the unknown. Ancient Greeks disposed of imperfect babies. The Romans would throw disfigured children under horse’s hooves in games in the Coliseum. Witches were identified by their impairments or by giving birth to disabled children and burnt at the stakes. Changeling children. Disability is a product of how w...
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Mother of Shrek: Day Centres - Systemic injustice
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Shrek in German means fear. My son is not frightening - hes autistic. Thursday, 30 August 2007. Day Centres - Systemic injustice. Day Centres - Systemic injustice. I don’t want to be herded around or trained. With nowhere to use the skills I’ve gained. In an over crowed centre where one size fits all. With your risk assessments and safety protocols. My life should not be based on stereotypes, labels and low expectations,. I want my own money and personalization. I want respect, human rights and equality.
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Mother of Shrek: Time out
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Shrek in German means fear. My son is not frightening - hes autistic. Friday, 11 April 2008. I'm going to take a break from blogging (maybe i will just do the odd post here and there? As i have to focus on Cs future ( he is leaving school soon) and my sanity ( funding. So i would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support and kind words over the last 8 months. I'm sure i will pop in on you from time to time. So heres one last message from C;. I want the opportunity to grow. All the v...
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Mother of Shrek: Balance
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Shrek in German means fear. My son is not frightening - hes autistic. Monday, 28 March 2011. Today’s fast moving and aspirational society, social care needs to keep up. Its evolving slowly - there’s a cultural shift towards personalization. And our expectations are higher than ever. I believe personalisation can be achieved in small group home settings for those who are more vulnerable or would be too isolated in independent living. With motivated staff. Basic human needs are the same for everyone. Air F...
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Mother of Shrek: Sensory Rooms
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Shrek in German means fear. My son is not frightening - hes autistic. Monday, 23 May 2011. Constant stream of information - hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste being the ones we first think of but there are many others all working together – affecting each other – different intensities at different times – ‘a concert piece of stunts’ Barry Smith. There’s also the sense of balance, temperature, proprioception. Many people are hypers ensitive and/or hyposensitive. So to have a room - a haven an oasis o...
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Mother of Shrek: Autistic Rap
http://motherofshrek.blogspot.com/2007/08/autistic-rap.html
Shrek in German means fear. My son is not frightening - hes autistic. Sunday, 19 August 2007. My mum kisses me, my family dissess me. Society dehumanises me. Despises me. Criticize me. They are fossilized. I do not apologise. I am ridiculed, violated, bullied. Ignored. I am stared at, laughed at spat at. What have I done to you? I mind my own business. I do not listen. I do not see or give you the third degree. I am holistic, simplistic certainly not materialistic. Your presumptions and assumptions.
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Mother of Shrek: Horrific abuse Exposed - Panorama
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Shrek in German means fear. My son is not frightening - hes autistic. Friday, 3 June 2011. Horrific abuse Exposed - Panorama. Eople make assumptions about why I ‘put’ C in a residential home – it’s so hard you poor thing you couldn’t cope or so I could have a life or because I just don’t care as those places are so dreadful. But all these couldn’t be further from the truth. Maybe that’s a blog post for another day. Are like this - it’s the tip of the ice burg. I work in social care for an organisation wh...
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Mother of Shrek: Prisoner on Mars
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Shrek in German means fear. My son is not frightening - hes autistic. Friday, 28 September 2007. I seem to have collected a few new comers here in Shrek land. Welcome one and all! So i thought i would briefly describe my son C and his autism. I wrote it all out, but it didn't feel right as it all sounded so negative. C is autistic, autism is C. It is the way he is, as i am the way i am, or the way you are. It is not negative! But you all know all that! So i will get off my soap box! Way out in the stars.
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Mother of Shrek: Happy Birthday Gorgeous!
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Shrek in German means fear. My son is not frightening - hes autistic. Monday, 24 September 2007. Cant believe C is 19. Where have all those years gone? I don’t feel old enough to have a 19 year old! Its very hard to know what to give autistic children for their birthday, unless they have a passion or an obsession with something and C has neither. So as I make rugs, I have made a couple for him. One for his room at school and one for home. They make great protective wall coverings for head bangers! I miss...
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Mother of Shrek: Autistic with spoons
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Shrek in German means fear. My son is not frightening - hes autistic. Thursday, 18 November 2010. Here’s my attempt at a variation on the spoon theory. We all have spoons. There are no stereotypes for spoons. Everyone’s spoons are different, everyone has a different numbers of spoons which fluxuate. Everyone uses their spoons in different ways. And maybe your spoons don’t even look like spoons! Some days C is better at juggling his spoons than others. Some days C drops his spoons one by one – if I ...
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