Being Accepted

Date 4 December 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
I was a pleasing child, always looking for acceptance, potentially because I was navigating a childhood with a disability I didn’t know I had. When things are good and we’re comfortable with our choice, we seem to ...
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Embracing Autism Symptoms

Date 30 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
I came to terms with the fact that I was different a long time ago. I didn’t know why I was, because nothing was ever said. I knew I had a bad leg and foot. But everything else was off limits. As a deep thinker as a child, I would…
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Remarkable

Date 28 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
"How my story has panned out is remarkable, or is it? The fact that it took me so long to get to this point is numbing. The fact that I'm still standing and didn't get ill, is probably testament to my strong will, but it's not sunk in ...
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Accepting Each Other

Date 24 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
I was impressed Anne Hegerty from ‘The Chase’ chose to star on ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here,’ reality t.v. show, because anyone with autism will know it’s not an easy decision to make. Anne was clearly upset with ...
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Bringing Perceptions Together

Date 21 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
The fact that I am around 70% mentally and emotionally disabled, means I live with anxiety. If I was to place my anxiety on a scale of 1-10, I would probably place it at around 7 or 8 in times of stress. Autism ...
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A Life Through Lies

Date 20 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
The life I have lived has been as a result of others living a lie, knowing what my disability was. It wasn’t my lie, but it became my life. The human mind is flawed and ignoring the truth will always have devastating consequences, particularly when others choose to keep something…
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My Emotional Struggles

Date 17 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
I never really understood my emotions and why I struggled, until I’d worked through the process, starting with a cerebral palsy diagnosis. Although I was aware of some of how I presented as a child in terms of my emotions, I didn't ...
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More 'topical blogs'

Date 12 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
When I was growing up there was little in the media, including the environment, food and the relationship between food production and the environment, its processing and our links to food. It's incredibly important to ...
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Extra pieces of the jigsaw/2

Date 8 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
As a continuation from my ‘Extra pieces of the jigsaw’ blog, as part of the co-occurring conditions I get to deal with I can also add, the next items to my list. Symptoms of Sensory Processing disorder Children ...
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Extra pieces of the jigsaw

Date 7 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
I’ll never know now because it’s way too late in the day, but it would have been that I would have had a little more to go on had my father and my consultants over the years discussed my disability and my presenting symptoms. You couldn’t make up what I’ve…
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My exercise routine

Date 3 November 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
Growing older with cerebral palsy doesn’t come without its difficulties. Taking advice over the years from consultants who thought they knew what was best, like walking barefoot potentially hasn’t been the best advice. Although walking barefoot nowadays has a lot to do with earthing, (connecting to the Earth’s natural energy…
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What we take from childhood

Date 31 October 2018
Author Ilana Estelle
As a child I learned very early on that we don’t have choices. That as the adult we get to choose, but we must choose wisely. We don’t get to choose how our parents bring us up, but we do get to choose how we use their choices to better…
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