Week 11 of Serialization: Where Does My Autistic Son Belong? Chapter 11: BONGABON: TAKE 1
In 2019, I published Where Does My Autistic Son Belong?. It chronicles my struggle with raising my adolescent autistic son, Sebastien,...
Autism Film and Post-Screening Panel Discussion
Hi everyone, I have been invited to be a part of the post-screening panel discussion for one of the movies being screened at the...
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...
