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Getting Sick
I hate getting sick. Always have, but never so much as I do now when married to Matt. Matt’s AuDHD and nursing me do not go together! Let me give you a not so hypothetical example. Imagine I am sick enough to be confined to bed. I have to rely on Matt for the simplest…
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Making Time For Yourself
This week I want to think about the importance of making time for yourself. Sometimes dealing with everything that comes with being the partner of someone who is neurodivergent or of being neurodivergent yourself can be very overwhelming, never mind the normal pressures of life today. So taking time out to do something you really…
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Review: Inside Our Autistic Minds
This week’s blog is a review of “Inside Our Autistic Minds”, a BBC documentary hosted by Chris Packham. This two part documentary aired in the UK on Tuesday 14th and 21st February and can be viewed here: BBC iPlayer – Inside Our Autistic Minds Last week Matt and I sat down to watch the first…
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AuDHD and Valentine’s Day
Welcome friend and a very happy Valentine’s Day! In particular I am sending love today to those of you who really wanted to be romanced but whose partner completely forgot! In my experience romance never runs smoothly in a neurodiverse relationship and Valentine’s Day, anniversaries and even birthdays can be a very lonely and upsetting…
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Expectations: To Lower or Not to Lower
Apologies that this week’s blog is a little late – we have had a big week with our sons appearing in a play at school so lots of taxiing and evenings spent in the theatre for us. Also I have realized that this is a really big topic so I am going to break it…
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Ch Ch Ch Changes
Lessons in change and interior décor There was only one time that I did anything major to the house without telling Matt first. Never again! It was back when we first brought our house and I was working as a teacher and had long summer holidays. One sunny summer holiday while Matt was at work,…
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Masking Myths Unmasked
Over the weekend there was an article in the newspaper about how Christine McGuiness, who was recently diagnosed with ASC, had masked throughout her marriage in her attempts to be the perfect wife. I see a lot of different and confrontational things written about masking so in this week’s post we get to the bottom…
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Save Yourself First
I subscribe to the Headspace App because I have found it really helpful over the years, but today I had a notification that I had to disagree with in the context of our marriage. It said this: “Paradoxically, the best way to make ourselves happier is by focusing on the happiness of others”. As a…
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The Truth About My Neurodiverse Marriage
For me it is important if I am going to be writing a blog about our marriage to be honest from the start. Although we have been together 23 years now and I love my husband unreservedly, it has never been easy and I don’t think it ever will be. There are days when I…
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Welcome friends
Welcome. I’m so glad you found my blog. I’m Katie, a mid forties charity worker, who lives in the middle of England with my husband and two teenage sons. In 2017 my husband, Matt, was diagnosed as autistic and subsequently with ADHD (increasingly known as AuDHD when someone has both diagnoses). It was a complete…
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