Last week I took an online test compiled by the Cambridge (UK) based Autism Research Centre and have just taken an Adult ADD test. I suppose the results were to be expected – I scored 36 in the Autism test (32 is normal for Asperger patients!) and 80 in the Adult ADD test (70 and [...]
Apr 102010
Mar 102010
Having spent rather too long for my liking teaching level 2 further education students, I am not entirely unfamiliar with the quirks of ADHD, ASD and similar. The major difference between school and the riding school is that many of those at school not only had a psychological disorder but had a distinct lack of [...]
Jan 122010
Unbelievable. The answering machine had been left on all day at the riding school. I called in around lunchtime and it was definitely too cold then to go riding, so this evening was certainly out of the question. I fed the horses and gave them a run in the ring and was just about to [...]
Jan 112010
This post is for Amy, my “step-cousin,” and her son Aidin: Please put this on your status if you know someone (or are related to someone) who has AUTISM. My wish for 2010 is that people will understand autism is not a disease; people with autism are not looking for a cure but for ACCEPTANCE…… [...]
