My birthday is on May 14th and I love going shopping for my birthday present with my mum. I always have done and I won’t change for no one! This year my mum is buying me some trainers that I have fallen in love with, nice grey ones that are not that badly priced. That will please some of my support staff! My mum is also getting me a birthday cake, a Victoria sponge with butter cream in the middle mmmm and decorated. On May 14^th itself we are going to our favourite restaurant, the Sweet Chestnut in Dunfermline. I plan to relax and see my support staff later on in the day. My birthday is just another number but I’m feeling old…not as old as my mum though!

I have always loved birthdays, but they are not the same without my dad. My dad died when I was younger and my mum brought me up on her own. Mum has done really well, she used to bake the birthday cakes but hasn’t recently as she has a smaller kitchen now. The older I’ve got I’ve enjoyed the shopping for a birthday present more than actual birthday itself, I hope I am not being rude to mum. When I was younger I was diagnosed with Autism two days before my 25^th birthday and that was quite a ropey birthday for me. I found it difficult to cope at this time but I’ve always tried to look on the bright side of life. Being diagnosed before my birthday was hard but I’ve since realised it’s not the end of the world and there is light at the end of the tunnel.

My mum has her birthday a week before mines and I like making a fuss of my mum for her birthday but the older she’s got the more she doesn’t like it. I like to take her out and pay for a meal, this year we went to Wetherspoons and had fish and chips since it was fish Friday! She really enjoyed it because it had mushy peas, my mum is a mushy pea fan.

Birthday wishes one and all.

Signing off,

Emma