Poetry BY Nicola

09/08/2024

September sees us celebrate our 8th year anniversary supporting families in Hull and East Riding affected by Autism, Mental Health, and other neurodivergence conditions 0-25. We would love you can come and celebrate with us on the 28th September, you can pay a £10 deposit, pay in full or sponsor a table for £350.

Please spend 3 minutes watching this video and see a snippet of some of the things we have achieved and you will see why these events are so important.

To book your tickets click on this link below today …

Come and celebrate our 8th anniversary in style.  Live band, disco, auction and raffle.  Three course meal and welcome drink on...

07/07/2024

3 weeks ago I skydived 15000ft it’s not to late to sponsor me ❤️

11/12/2023

Places still available for a donation we are also looking for activities and entertainment including singers x

12/10/2023

We are excited and please to announce our VIP Judge for Sundays Aim Higher’s got talent is the Very talented Jade Scott who has also agreed to sing at the interval too…❤️

Tickets available at a donation of £2.50 spaces to compete available too

https://facebook.com/events/s/aim-highers-got-talent-2023/614956277424816/

06/09/2023

Do you work for a company and fancy a group team building challenge you can have a team sponsor page and raise money for Aim Higher who support families in Hull and East Riding affected by autism/mental Health in children and young people. Please contact [email protected] get tagging away

25/05/2020

Covid -19

31st December in 2019,
Covid-19 virus came on the scene.

Wuhan the place in China East,
Population 11 million threatened by this beast.

Spread of this virus started to take hold,
Realising this was more than just a cold.

Deaths were rising becoming a scare,
Uk took hold and began to prepare.

Schools and shops were beginning to close,
As figures of fatalities still rose.

Hand gel and toilet roll were the subject of panic,
Supermarkets shelf’s empty during this pandemic.

Shops so busy with everything gone,
No food to be had before to long.

Social distancing we are told we should do,
Advice from an organisation called WHO.

Two metres apart we should all be,
No kisses, cuddles or families to see.

A day in March lockdown was agreed,
Begging the public to follow the lead.

Comaredery and kindness to help with the lows,
Windows decorated with beautiful rainbows.

Key workers working hard on their feet’s,
Many families clapped and took to the streets.

Our MP Boris has stepped up his game,
A man once laughed at for his hair to be tamed.

We haven’t peaked with this virus yet,
Writing this poem has made my eyes wet.

Busy streets remain to be seen,
If we all don’t work as part of a team.

Pick up the phone to people alone,
Following the rules please stay at home.

We can do this and slow the death rate,
Giving Us back the title Britain Great.

Let’s tell this virus we are here to fight,
By listening to the Governments plight.

08/04/2017

Mental health Su***de poem

I sit by the river and look to the sky,
imagining the feeling and asking myself why.

What gives you the strength to end it all,
when did you life hit the metal wall.

Our eyes are the window to our soul,
were yours clouded like a deep misty hole.

Why did the system let you so badly down,
depression is not just a temporary frown.

Imagine a time that we can talk to one another,
whether its a doctor, child or your a brother.

Tears would be shed and a problem halved,
a memory in your heart would be calved.

Too many life's are being destroyed,
families torn apart and left with a void.

If we can learn from you in any way,
to help the thoughts float away.

I don't know your name or who you belong,
but the Mental health system has got it so wrong.

It effects many families so far and wide,
lets come together and diminish su***de.

18/03/2017

Being me written by Nicola Robinson inspired by Michael

My name now is Legos and I am 10-year-old boy with Autism. If you are wondering why my name is Legos well that’s because my obsession now is Lego and I just like the name so why not?

I live in Hull which is a very exciting place to live right now because we have City of Culture 2017, lots of events taking place to celebrate with fireworks and things to do, but I don’t go because I don’t like crowds or noise and when people stand too close to me it makes my skin itch and my hairs feel like blades then I feel all itchy and uncomfortable , also when people rush past me I get all confused and frightened, dizzy and sick please just stay still, no surprise moves just still then I feel calm and in control and know where my body belongs in this crazy busy world.

The loud bangs then the earth-shattering crackles makes my ears hurt and leaves a disturbing burning smell that burns my nose hairs spreading to my magnificent brain making me feel jittery and achy.

Home is where I feel most comfortable because I know where everything is and where it belongs none of them terrible surprises just as I like it. My mum says “Home is where the heart is “so why on earth does she try and make me go out places without my heart.

My mum takes me to shops were it's so cold and echoy the fridges buzzing shrivels my brain, lights so bright like the sun on my skin and people rushing, grunting so impatiently and don’t let us go first. WHY? Does my mum get angry when I put my hands over my ears to block the sound causing these fears, I scream so loud it echoes the ground.
Why can’t I just stay at home were my heart is (which sounds very painful surely, I’d be dead if I left my heart).

I don’t want to talk about the weather or what you’re having for tea, I want my mum to go into a shop get what she needs and leave without having a chatter which to me is boring and pointless but I do get into trouble when I say that whilst they are talking which again I just don’t understand because my brain is thinking this, so why do I upset people? I was always told to be honest but apparently, this is not right all the time which is very…. CONFUSSING. Humans are very confusing when they say one thing but mean another but when I tell my mum I’m brushing my teeth but really, I’m finishing a level on Minecraft I get into trouble …. again CONFUSSING.

I attend a special school and I actually quite like it but again why do I need to go to school I already know everything and if I don’t I will just google it, luckily my school is nice and understanding . My last school was big and scary with lots of corridors and 31 children in my class yep that’s 31 children talking, 31 different voices, 31 different smells, in one small room and it makes my brain feel like a Rubik cube. A teacher at the front who talks to 31 children and thinks we can all understand but when I tell her I don’t understand she shouts and makes disappointed faces whilst her warm dry breath invades my face causing my brain to spin and my ears to hurt making my brain shut down and my anger to rise to the top like an erupting volcano. Everything looks red my arms and legs are moving but my brain is closed, apparently, I hit the teacher causing her to have a mark but her breath on my face and the noise in my ears hurt so much like a siren squealing so she hurt me first. I tried really hard to be good all day but things just irritate me throughout the day my head feels like a bottle of coke traveling on a bumping journey gently fizzing and fizzing away then I come home from school to my home were my heart is where everything is calm the way I left it, but my mum ask “ How was your day” this makes the bottle topple over making the lid shoot off hurting my mum in the face like a smoky backdraft, the fizz spills out for hours causing an emotional mess that takes hours to clean up.

My mum had water leaking from her eyes and a funny wobbly voice which I don’t like, I want my mums voice back, has someone abducted my mum and left a strange leaking red wobbly voice robot but what I do like about this robot is it wants to stay at home from now on….

Apparently, I need friends but I quite like being with my computer I know exactly what is going to happen because I control what Is going to happen and when, I have the controller so no new surprises so unless I find a friend that comes with a controller that I have access to, I’m just happy as I am.

I could not talk properly in till I was seven, I had words in my head but my mouth wouldn’t open in the right way to make the sounds and I just could not put the words tougher like a missing link but I had a nice lady who helped me solve my puzzly brain in my own time. Now I like talking but about things I like, because why would I want to talk about something I’m not interested in.

Apparently I don’t get enough sleep but why would anyone want to sleep when I have so much to do, levels to complete, Lego to build what do I gain from sleep it’s just wasting time but no sleep makes me feels groggy and sleepy with my mouth feeling fairy like a hairy hamster, which makes my mum and dad think I need to brush my teeth, I HATE the minty burning stingy feeling that tastes disgusting and feels like sharp blades scraping my teeth which again is something CONFUSSING that adults do.

My mum and dad say I need a haircut which sounds and feels brutal is this something parents have made up to punish us, as the noise of the Sharpe shiny scissors whooshing through my hair and close to my ears, were the buzzing of the shaver shakes my head whilst having to stay in an uncomfortably still position for years whilst hairs fall and embed within my clothes that I can’t possibly wear ever again.
I do like being me I just wish people like me being me, I will never be cured I just want to be accepted…. If my unexpected noises or flaps scare you or my honesty approach offends you I don’t mean it, I just want to keep being me………

08/08/2015

12 years today we tied the knot (shame it wasn't around your neck ) only joking I love you so much and look forward to the rest of our lives together we've had some real hard times but got through by sticking together which proves the strength of our marriage

15/04/2014

Hillsborough

25 years today with Liverpool to play
96 people didn't come away

The noise was so loud , circulating the ground
The cheers turned to screams , becoming so found

This never should of happened, the police are to blame
Even today the families are need to shame

To many people in the crowd, it should have stopped
The security numbers were surely topped

At 3.06 let's bow our heads, and think of that day
For friends and families we should all pray

Let's show some support were ever your home
And let's show " they'll never walk alone"

Justice should be done, one day in our lives
For brothers,sisters children and their wife's

Be Nicola

R . I . P