​Welcome!

I'm known as "An Aussie Autie Mum" (or AM for short). Take time to look through and have a good read. The page is still in the making and new things will be added on a regular basis (I hope).

Feel free to join myself and many other gorgeous people on our facebook page and say hello. I also have an email you can contact me on... just please understand, I don't get into that very often so bear with me if it takes time to reply. You can find details via the Contact tab.



And just a little about me and my family....

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I'm the Mum of a very gorgeous little man who just turned 6 (in 2012). He's completely changed the way we live. We fell in love with him the very moment we realised that we needed to get a test and check for the double pink line. It was positive in so very many ways.



Life isn't always as beautiful as a bunch of flowers and it doesn't always look as wonderful as a piece of famous art. What life is to us is the raising of our perfect little man who stole our hearts and just happens to have autism. When we look at our son we don't see autism, he is our son. We don't see a diagnosis, we see a beautiful little boy whom we were blessed with... what can be more perfect than that?



The information that you're about to read is written by me (and acknowledgements for any other writer), a fellow parent of an autistic child because I, and many other parents, felt that there was a clear void of easy to understand information that would help families without the jargon of technical words getting in the way.



There's no quick cures for autism. There are no answers to the who, what, where's and why's. Sometimes we need to come to terms with that before we can move on and build on the strengths that our children have. The only thing that I can promise you is that you're embarking on a journey of discovery and thankfulness. You're going to discover strength you never had, hate you never thought you'd feel, love you didn't believe could ever get to be so strong... and  you're going to be thankful for the smallest of life's offerings that won't happen on a daily basis and will become the dreams that replace the ones you have now. To be able to sit long enough to drink a cup of coffee while it's still hot.... *sigh*.... what a dream for many! You'll also find yourself at times becoming the caped crusader for the acceptance and inclusion of all special needs children and the plights of their families.

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I wish you and your family the very very best in your journey and hope that you will always have the strength to remember that no matter how bad today may have been, tomorrow is another day and if that doesn't work, you always have the next.

From my family to yours... Hugs xxxxx

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