To Be Left Alone: Living With Autism –10
DIAGNOSIS AUTISM Since I was 19 I had not been to the dentist, and I had lost a filling when I was 25. When I was 43, in 2013, this tooth became infected and...
Category: Health & Wellbeing
To Be Left Alone: Living With Autism – 9
CLEARING IN THE WOODS During 2008 I had sold my campervan in the UK and had managed to get hold of a very old caravan which someone kindly donated and towed down into my...
To Be Left Alone: Living With Autism – 8
MIGRATORY… I bought a campervan to live in in New Zealand and joined their caravan club because they sold a pass to the isolated campsites where I intended to hang out. This would be...
Poetry Now – Geraldine Glover
By GERALDINE GLOVER The Healer’s Task “Don’t give up on me,”Pleads my client.“You’re my rock.” I look at him,His heart in my hands,Open, vulnerable, defenceless. What do I say?What does he need?I can’t...
Big Funding Boost for Young People’s Charity
Submitted by JESSICA PALMER, Project Manager at POINT POINT has been successful in securing a £434,000 grant from the National Lottery Community Fund to support a new three-year project. The project, entitled Nurturing the...
In Search of the Good Life
Amid all the pain and hardship of the pandemic there has been, for some people, a glimpse of a quieter, more simple way of life. This change has obviously been most marked in towns...
To Be Left Alone: Living With Autism – 7
LIVING IN THE WOODS So began 12 years of living in the woods. This was exactly what I needed and it was an extremely healing experience. I was almost entirely left alone with a...
Poetry Now – Geraldine Glover
By GERALDINE GLOVER The Client’s Plea Don’t tell us to pull ourselves together.Don’t ignore our pain and cross the street.Don’t hide behind your desk. Break out of your arrogant, ignorant tomb! We: the weak,...
Sign and Share Wants Volunteers
By SHIRLEY DAVID I moved to Pembrokeshire from Surrey 28 years ago when my husband took a job at what was then the Texaco refinery (now Valero). Like many a Welshman he wanted to get...
To Be Left Alone: Living with Autism – 6
RUNNING AWAY AGAIN I went to New Zealand for six months and spent most of the time camping out in the bush, sleeping in my car, completely alone, only venturing near a town if...
