Kerri from Murphy's Sketches On Parenting Her Autistic Child
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We are joined by Murphy's Sketches' Kerri Cunningham on the show today.
Kerri opens up about life as a mum to her autistic son, Murphy, sharing the realities, the challenges, the joy, and the learning curves that come with it.
With honesty and warmth, she talks about advocating for her child, trusting her instincts, and navigating a world that doesn’t always make things easy for neurodivergent families.
Alongside the deeply personal, we also dive into how Kerri turned her creativity into a thriving brand. From sketching as an outlet to growing Murphy’s Sketches into a business with a powerful message, she chats about resilience, community, and building something meaningful while raising a family.
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| 0:00.0 | The I'm It's Tuesday. |
| 0:39.3 | It is. |
| 0:40.3 | How are you? |
| 0:41.1 | What's going on? |
| 0:42.7 | What's going on? |
| 0:45.1 | I'm learning to deal with an incredibly competitive household. |
| 0:51.4 | Oh, I wonder where they got that from. |
| 0:53.8 | No idea. |
| 0:54.8 | Do your kids constantly try and beat each other at everything? |
| 1:00.1 | See, no. |
| 1:01.2 | Right. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.3 | Should I go now? |
| 1:04.3 | No, I was going to say, though, because they've got very different interests. |
| 1:08.3 | Right. |
| 1:08.7 | Go on. |
| 1:08.9 | And I find that they almost won't compete with each other, if that makes sense. |
| 1:15.8 | Like, Gigi will just, if she sees the slightest bit of like, you know, I don't know, Axel trying to, come on, let's try and beat me in a race or try and do this. |
| 1:27.9 | She's just like, no, you're right. No, you're right, mate. But I think she knows that winds him up more. Right. Do you know what I mean? It's like her, yeah, like tactic of winding him up because she knows she won't beat him because he's like that much older than her. She's so wise. So she just thinks, yeah, I'm not getting involved with your games. |
| 1:46.8 | But James and Axel, yeah. James and Axel? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Massively. Yeah. Because my kids are in a stage now where they're literally like, well, yeah, I work up at 626. And then kids like, I work up at 62424 and then she's like well actually my clock was |
| 2:01.4 | wrong so it was 622 and I'm like why are you trying to win at who got up early both of you |
| 2:07.2 | woke up too fucking early do you what I mean like it's that it's that level everything they are |
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