My name is Max. Welcome to my blog, where I will share my life with my autistic younger brother. All the highs the lows and everything in between.

It is here where I’m sure many of you will be able to relate to many of the funny and some less funny stories that I personally have experienced with my brother Leon. Alongside this I will be exploring how Leon has taught me things which I have transferred into everyday life. About how each day is important and the small things are what make a big difference – rather than just focusing on the end destination.

I feel it’s important to explain why I actually made this website and why I post these blogs. My aim through these blogs is to hopefully show people that there are others around them who can relate to them. When I was growing up, I never really felt that many people got it. Not many people really understood the work that families put in when bringing up an autistic child. I felt that mates who had neurotypical siblings never really looked at life through my lens. Now imagine how children such as my brother feel who actually have autism. If I, who is classified as a neurotypical individual, am thinking like this, then imagine how they must be feeling. How can I understand my brothers world? So one aim is to simply raise awareness. Next time you see a child throwing what you think is a tantrum in the supermarket, don’t just pull a judgmental face and think it must be bad parenting, but instead sympathise. This child may not be able to cope with the noise level or even the intensity of the light. Simple activities like shopping, that we all take for granted, are complex on so many levels for my brother.

Another aim is to point out the areas of society which I believe need changing. Now I’m not saying my posting opinions online is going to do this, but hopefully by doing so, it could potentially alter how people view autism, as well as neurodiverse people as a whole.

And lastly, as I said before, I want to increase the noise about autism rather than it being a taboo. I’m proud to say my brother is autistic because of my relationship with him but also because of what he has taught me.

Disclaimer – Everything I post on here is my opinion only and what I personally have experienced, in no way am I advising or telling people do do anything. As we all know everyones experience is completely different.