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...
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...
