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Hello, my name is Emma Plows and I am the author of Autistic blessings and Bipolar me. I am also the mother of two boys on the spectrum. I cope every day with the condition Bipolar.
It’s my understanding that when you discover your child has Autism you really need to accept the diagnosis. Try your very best to come to terms with it it, let it grow and don’t hinder its development. People with Autism find it very hard to understand the world like we do and have difficulty understanding how people think. We have the capacity to understand them, we need take advantage of that capacity. If we don’t accept that our children are autistic, then we are only condemning ourselves and our children to a life of frustrating misery. Work with it, not agai
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E.J. Plows I am currently working on my second book. I have a title but I am still toying with it. Depending on how the book evolves this may change. My second b…moreI am currently working on my second book. I have a title but I am still toying with it. Depending on how the book evolves this may change. My second book describes my very personal experience of the autism diagnosis process. Unfortunately its not all plain sailing and my experience the first time was quite frankly horrendous. Sounds dramatic I know but there's way too much talking from the so called professionals and know where near enough listening. Parents generally know what there talking about, they just need cooperation from the people who can make the life's of our sons and daughters easier. (less)
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Acceptence vs ignorance.

When you have a socially taboo condition you can become a great judge of someone's character. I never told anyone I had bipolar before I published my book because I just didn't feel the need and why would I? It isn't who I am it's just part of who I am. Now that I'm an author the nature of my book naturally comes up in conversation and people react in a number of ways. So you have your........

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Published on July 01, 2015 13:20 Tags: add, adhd, asd, aspergers, autism, bipolar, cancer, mental-illness, odd, pad
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“If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad!”
E.J. Plows

“Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.”
Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

“If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad!”
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