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Comfort zone

Comfort zone

Anoushka
autism, culture, family, travel, memoir

“The heat is pressing in on us; a solid, slippery thing. I feel like I could cut it with a butter knife. The noise, rich smells and visual abundance of the souk have blurred into irrelevance because I am wholly focused on Spike and his distress.”

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve

Anoushka
family, food, memoir, travel

“…Ben went for a walk along the beach and was gone for so long that I began imagining the catastrophes? A road accident, a drowning. Quarter hours passed in which I tried to convince myself I was relaxing when in reality my heart had crept up to pulse in my throat…”

To University

To University

Anoushka
memoir, culture, travel

“I have never enjoyed driving. Perhaps it is the undeniable and imminent threat of death that we brush aside as we step into our little tin cars, in one of many mundane, quotidien examples of our management of terror. “

Blyton

Blyton

Anoushka
autism, family, memoir, travel

“My school was nowhere so dramatic as the Cornish coastline. The nearest sea was the one frozen in the chalk of the nearby Downs which undulated their way from east to west.”

Installation

Installation

Anoushka
travel, london, culture

“Crows stepped carefully on the shady lawns, peering beyond their beaks, waiting for something. Cobalt dragon and damsel flies zinged in my peripheral vision. And then I caught sight of something monolithic.”

Railside

Railside

Anoushka
family, london, travel

“Things were turned around for Spike when he found a tall, straight stick and announced that he was "taking it home to put in my bedroom. If I get a bad leg, I'll have a stick!"“

Psychogeography

Psychogeography

Anoushka
travel, family, autism

“At Center Parcs, Spike summed up his essential dismay at being literally and figuratively outside of his comfort zone with exclamations of "I'm in the "Special Fares Apply" zone!". A long way from what felt like home.”

Home

Home

Anoushka
autism, family, travel, memoir

“There then follows a period of psychological over-adjustment, where Spike copes with the not-being-at-homeness of holidays by designating our accommodation "home". He mentally moves house.”