I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: Joint Letter to CDC on Wandering

Saturday, 21 May 2011

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http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2011/04/joint-letter-to-cdc-on-wandering/

About Me...

I am a mother to 4 children. I have a son and a daughter both with severe Autism. My daughter is a 'wanderer'. I have had to spend thousands of pounds adapting my house so she can't get out and cause herself serious harm.

My daughter was left to wander from her school on the 20th of May 2011. She is non-verbal with severe learning difficulties and no understanding of danger. She was found by a local nursery.

There isn't enough information in the U.K on 'wandering'. In the U.S they are considering making it a diagnosis.

Halo x

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

William Wordsworth

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Saturday, 21 May 2011

Joint Letter to CDC on Wandering

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