A Mother’s Wish for My Autistic Son
The beginning of 2014 was a time of reckoning. It had been one year since I let go of the security of a monthly pay cheque for home-based...
Sebastien’s Season of Adolescence: Puberty Unleashed
Sebastien's season of adolescence can be described, to borrow the brilliant lines of Charles Dickens, as “the best of times”..., and...
Smiles for Sebastien
Snapshot 1: Suspended between night and day, it is the magical twilight hour at Yangon's famous Shwedagon Pagoda, with its towering...
What Would It Take?
This the second of a two-article series about the challenges and implications of raising an individual with autism, which was sparked off...
When Aggression Strikes… Mama Goes on Strike!
This the first of a two-part articles series about the challenges and implications of raising an individual with autism, which was...