
Week 17 of Serialization of Where Does My Autistic Son Belong? Chapter 17 The First 7 Days
From time to time, I will hear from parents who have apparently been following my serialization rather closely. It is always a nice...

Painting Series by Jean-Sebastien Choo, Self-taught Autistic Artist #21—Heart of Forgiveness
by Choo Kah Ying The soft baby pink hue that permeates through the center of this painting by Sebastien, my autistic son, is what has...

Painting Series by Jean-Sebastien Choo, Self-taught Autistic Artist #13— Finding My Bali Flow
(16 x 8 in, water color and poster color, canvas panel, SGD140 + shipping) This is one of the paintings that Sebastien painted during...

A Mother's Wish's Saving Autistic Lives Mission with Dr. Antonio Rinaldi: Summary of the Two
On July 13th, Dr. Antonio Rinaldi and I returned to Geylang East Library (venue provided for free by the National Library Board), where...

Dr. Antonio's "Saving Autistic Lives" Mission Comes to Singapore
Thanks to a generous sponsor, a family foundation that wishes to remain anonymous, A Mother's Wish, has invited Dr. Antonio Rinaldi to...

Open Your Heart, Open Your Mind Workshop
It was a pleasure and privilege to conduct an interactive workshop with parents of special needs kids and teens at the Gurkha Contingent...

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....

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...

Snapshots of an Enlightened Society
Travelling with Sebastien, my autistic son, has always felt like an adventure, a foray into the unknown, despite the fact that he has...

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...