LilySue

Hi, Welcome back, My father always said his family came from Scotland ( he passed away while I was still young so I never got to find out the truth of it, my mother said it was probably one of his funny stories! ) But anyway I love Scotland, such a beautiful place and so much less crowded than us down here in the South!

97% Northeast

 

Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.

 

not bad for someone who has never been to the USA

Hehe I also got North-East and like you have never been to the USA in my life, I'm English.

http://www.autism.org.uk/living-with-autism/strategies-and-approaches/visual-supports.aspx

I'm not really good with copy and paste on this new iPad we have, but hopefully the above might be a help.

I think what you are doing is wonderful, I would have so appreciated this kind of help when my son was younger, we eventually stopped going to church because it was just too stressful.

Thanks Annarchy, I joined ages ago then our old computer died and I forgot the name of this forum!

Today someone asked me about prepping, not a common topic here in the UK, and this forum came up in my Google search....so I have found my way back

My youngest son has autism and Anyala is right, the changing from one activity to another can cause an awful lot of stress for people on the autistic spectrum. When my son was younger, I used to prepare a visual timetable of what was going to happen to him during the day, you could do something like this for Sunday school....visual timetable sounds grand, but it was very simple, I just drew simple pictures of the day ahead.

Merry Christmas, it's just turned midnight here, and I'm off to bed. May you all have the Christmas days that you want

As I put in the title, Hi from the UK And I guess I had better tell you a bit about myself, my name is Sue, but one of my friends calls me Lily as apparently there are far too many Sues of my age around ( I'm 51) and I'm not too fussed which name you choose, you can use both if you like, I have

I've been married for nearly thirty years, and we have three sons, and have always lived in the same big city in the East of England. I got to this forum in a rather roundabout way...and I must admit I didn't really know anything about prepping, but while I was reading I realised that I could learn an awful lot here.

Because of my youngest son's early poor health, I gave up working fifteen years ago, and we realised we could make it on one income. This meant me doing things I hadn't originally intended like cooking from scratch, and shopping in charity shops...and it turns out I can do all this stuff ( anyone can)...but this year as the UK like most other countries is in recession, I'm renting an allotment ( piece of land you rent from the local council) to grow vegetables on. I'm also learning to drive ( rather late in life) as we would like the option to move out of the city eventually and this area has incredibly bad public transport.

Our house is small, there are 5 of us living in 800 square feet, so I don't imagine I will be able to do vast amounts of storing things, but I will definitely appreciate help with growing stuff, and I also want to learn to sew ...and you can cheer me on with my driving lessons ( I so wish I had done this years ago, but better late than never!)