Week 9 of Serialization: Where Does My Autistic Son Belong? Chapter 9: INSTITUTIONALISING SEBASTIEN
In 2019, I published Where Does My Autistic Son Belong?. It chronicles my struggle with raising my adolescent autistic son, Sebastien,...
Painting Series by Jean-Sebastien Choo, Self-taught Autistic Artist #8— A Hero’s Way
(14 x 11 in, water color and poster color, canvas panel, SGD180 + shipping) What this painting conjures up for me is the the path of the...
Speaking with Body and Paintings: The Language of My Autistic Son
#autism, #paintings, #communication, #specialneeds, #parenting, #teen, #aggression Neurotypicals often lament that “non-verbal” autistic...
Week 5 of Serialization: Where Does My Autistic Son Belong?: Chapters 1 – Chapter 5
"I wished I could have said that my renunciation of physical force against Sebastien was a turning point in our story. Well, that didn’t...
Moving Sebastien to Bali: One-Year Retrospective
Life-Changing Decision Towards the end of August, Jerome and I decided to move Sebastien, my 20-year-old son, from Singapore to Bali....
Living the Reality of Pangdemonium's "Falling"
Last night, I had the privilege of attending Pangdemonium’s production of “Falling”, a play about a family struggling with autism, and...
A Fear-Based Society: What Would You Do?
Today, Sebastien, my almost 20-year-old autistic son, experienced being handcuffed and placed in the police car for the first time (the...
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...
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...
