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My Fuel Bubble

  After years of traumatic experiences for my Autistic teen at physical schools, mainstream and specialist, and for us as a family, we have all greatly benefited from access to education from home. Recently, he tried to put into words why this was important for him and shared the idea of his ‘fuel bubble’. He explained that his fuel bubble has several components. It is the physical space, around his desk, as well as the desk itself, set up just the way he likes it. People coming into his space, especially without warning or preparation, use up his available fuel. Even familiar people coming within a certain distance can have this effect. The closer to the desk, the more fuel is used up. Meanwhile the items he chooses to have close, and the way his desk is organised, his way, gives him energy. When inside his fuel bubble he often connects to others’ fuel bubbles. This can be through virtual connections online, even YouTube videos, but also through real life interaction. Chatting and...
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If being is relational...


If 'being' is relational, and I strongly feel it is, we are complicit in the killing of our grandparents (nature and the physical world), and of our brothers and sisters (those who die in manmade genocides across the world). 

Our parents (most of those who hold power) teach us to sit still and stay quiet, Global North markers of success in learning about the world. Yet, in truth, these so-called 'guardians' need reporting to safeguarding for the significant harm they are causing to us all. 

Meanwhile, safeguarding teams (the Global North media machines) are largely corrupt and in league with our parents. Those who dare to describe accurately what they see, are removed by our parents and the corrupt members of the safeguarding services, silenced, incarcerated or killed. The truth is then erased with them.

This is abuse on a global scale. If our parents and safeguarding can't stop it, then WE must stop sitting still and stop staying quiet! Our humanity depends on it.

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