It’s Autism Month!! I have been in the Autism community for 9 years now. It has been both high highs and low lows. Never in between. I would not change it for anything because that means I may want my daughter different from whom she...
Thursday, 6th March 2014 was a surreal day. I did not experience an instant connection with my infant, mainly because we met about 17 hours after her birth. I was completely out of it. Post-theatre, I fell into a deep sleep from all the trauma...
Today is April 2nd, World Autism Day, I slept way past regular sleeping hours. I could not sleep thinking about my daughter and everything that she has had to endure and grow from as an Autistic not-yet-verbal child. When sleep finally claimed me, I was...
Despite their social deficit, Autistic children may exhibit unexpected and extraordinary exceptional skill or brilliance in numerous fields including memory, music, the arts, calculations, or mathematics. The medical term for it is Autistic Savant. My daughter has exhibited some remarkable skills with mathematics but mostly...
School aside, the other human population is largely ignorant of Autism. “Why is she not talking?” I always have to explain. It always goes down well because I took it upon myself to raise the awareness but there's this other group who are always quick...
