Playing "Monster" Peekaboo with My Son, an Autistic Young Man
by Choo Kah Ying Recently, when I released a 17-page illustrated e-book, entitled Beautiful Monster (SGD6; see a short video of the book...
Remote Parenting of My Autistic Son
by Choo Kah Ying When Angelia Poon, a former classmate of mine and a wonderful supporter of A Mother’s Wish, invited me to contribute an...
Week 12 of Serialization: Where Does My Autistic Son Belong?
In 2019, I published Where Does My Autistic Son Belong?. It chronicles my struggle with raising my adolescent autistic son, Sebastien,...
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....
What It Means to be a 1st World Country
The Hallmark of 1st world country can best be captured by the prevalent societal attitudes towards the handicapped (physically and...
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...
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...
Smiles for Sebastien
Snapshot 1: Suspended between night and day, it is the magical twilight hour at Yangon's famous Shwedagon Pagoda, with its towering...
