In 2019, I published Where Does My Autistic Son Belong?. It chronicles my struggle with raising my adolescent autistic son, Sebastien, and my subsequent decision of setting a home for him in Bali. As part and parcel of A Mother’s Wish initiative (amotherswish.com.sg) to raise awareness about the need to learn treat autistic individuals with genuine respect and empathy, I am serializing the book on Medium, Chapters 1–8:
CHAPTER 9
INSTITUTIONALISING SEBASTIEN
(December 7th — 20th, 2015)
Despite going to bed at almost 1:30 a.m., I struggled to stay asleep. My mind was full of all the things that…
In 2019, I published Where Does My Autistic Son Belong?. It chronicles my struggle with raising my adolescent autistic son, Sebastien, and my subsequent decision of setting a home for him in Bali. As part and parcel of A Mother’s Wish initiative (amotherswish.com.sg) to raise awareness about the need to learn treat autistic individuals with genuine respect and empathy, I am serializing the book on Medium, Chapters 1–7 :
CHAPTER 8
DIALLING “999”
(December 6th, 2015)
The painting Sebastien made before our clash on December 6th, 2015th…
On Sunday, December 6th, 2015, I called the police. It was somewhat anti-climactic, a non-event in juxtaposition against the…
In 2019, I published Where Does My Autistic Son Belong?. It chronicles my struggle with raising my adolescent autistic son, Sebastien, and my subsequent decision of setting a home for him in Bali. As part and parcel of A Mother’s Wish initiative to raise awareness about the need to learn treat autistic individuals with genuine respect and empathy, I am serializing the Book on Medium. All chapters can be accessed here: https://bit.ly/38MpavD
To purchase the book, please use this link.
CHAPTER 7
A MOTHER’S WISH GONE WRONG
(November 29th — December 5th, 2015)
The first two days of Jerome’s absence largely went without a hitch. Fighting off…
In 2019, I published Where Does My Autistic Son Belong?. It chronicles my struggle with raising my adolescent autistic son, Sebastien, and my subsequent decision of setting a home for him in Bali. As part and parcel of A Mother’s Wish initiative to raise awareness about the need to learn treat autistic individuals with genuine respect and empathy, I am serializing the Book on Medium. Previous chapters can be accessed here: https://bit.ly/38MpavD
To purchase the book, please use this link.
Chapter 6
THE FIRST DOMINOES FELL
(October — December 2015)
It is often said that things happen for a reason. So if…
In 2019, I published Where Does My Autistic Son Belong? that chronicles my journey of setting up a new life for Sebastien, my autistic son, after struggling with his aggression that erupted during his puberty and raged unabated for more than five years. This book has been very much part and parcel of A Mother’s Wish initiative (amotherswish.com.sg) to educate parents, educators, and the public about how we can interact with autistic individuals out of genuine empathy and respect.
In the hope that as many people as possible will read it and learn from my parenting mistakes, I will be…
Neurotypicals often lament that “non-verbal” autistic individuals, i.e., those who do not converse with formal languages (including sign language), like Sebastien, my autistic son, do not communicate.
What if the truth is that they communicating in multiple creative and innovative languages with their unique codes that we are too blind to notice, because of our own reliance on formal language systems?
Back in 2013, when I first started to sell Sebastien’s paintings under the tagline, “Speaking in Colors”, I could not have known how true it would ring. At that time, all I could tell was that painting was a…
In 2019, I published Where Does My Autistic Son Belong? that chronicles my journey of setting up a new life for Sebastien, my autistic son, after struggling with his aggression that erupted during his puberty and raged unabated for more than five years. This book has been very much part and parcel of A Mother’s Wish initiative (amotherswish.com.sg) to educate parents, educators, and the public about how we can interact with autistic individuals out of genuine empathy and respect. …
In 2019, I published Where Does My Autistic Son Belong? that chronicles my journey of setting up a new life for Sebastien, my autistic son, after struggling with his aggression that erupted during his puberty and raged unabated for more than five years. This book has been very much part and parcel of A Mother’s Wish initiative (amotherswish.com.sg) to educate parents, educators, and the public about how we can interact with autistic individuals out of genuine empathy and respect. …
In 2019, I published Where Does My Autistic Son Belong? that chronicles my journey of setting up a new life for Sebastien, my autistic son, after struggling with his aggression that erupted during his puberty and raged unabated for more than five years. This book has been very much a part of A Mother’s Wish initiative (amotherswish.com.sg) to educate parents, educators, and the public about how we can interact with autistic individuals out of genuine empathy and respect.
In the hope that as many people as possible will learn from my parenting mistakes, I will be serializing this book here…
In 2019, I published Where Does My Autistic Son Belong? that chronicles my journey of setting up a new life for Sebastien, my autistic son, after struggling with his aggression that erupted during his puberty and raged unabated for more than five years. This book has been very much a part of A Mother’s Wish initiative (amotherswish.com.sg) to educate parents, educators, and the public about how we can interact with autistic individuals out of genuine empathy and respect.
In the hope that as many people as possible will learn from my parenting mistakes, I will be serializing this book here…
Kah Ying Choo
Mother of an autistic young man, who has been my muse and my teacher, published author, educator, and learner, schooled by the University of Life
