Autism

I have not been updating because I got caught up with life.

Yeah, autism. One of my children has been diagnosed with ASD Level 1. He is verbal.

I do not know how to summarise what happened for the past 2 years… The learning curve has been huge. The struggles faced has been traumatic.

This world is not built for autism. It has been a painful process. There is nothing wrong with autism. He is who he is.

The amount of time, effort and money spent… The mental stress that I had to manage. Not all centres know what they are doing and making things worse for autistic children.

When he was diagnosed 2 years ago, I wanted to move back to Singapore. I believe Singapore would be a better place for him. He was back in Singapore for 2 summer holidays, attended one of the schools in Singapore. For the first 2 weeks, he was struggling. The teachers and principal was very upfront and knew how to manage him.

He improved so much. He went back to school in Hong Kong. Teachers were surprised with his improvement on transitions. Honestly, I think I finally know what he needs but that was what I thought last year… It is so scary to navigate because of the changes my son has to go through.

I am exhausted…