Author Archives: niveditasengupta

Time to pause, reflect and review again….collect all thoughts, take decisions! My husband had to move to another city, as a job requirement. I had to take the critical decision of either moving with him or staying in my city with the children? On one hand, my children would need their father to be around,Continue reading “Chapter 15”

Short term goals, followed by big dreams….having faith I spent every day with the morning prayer, “Lord, please help my daughter to stay calm without a panic attack today.” If it was a good day, I would feel so relieved; if not… I would go to sleep hoping for a happy tomorrow! One night, whenContinue reading “Chapter 14”

What NEEDS to be done HAS to be done… In middle school, my daughter got a very warm welcome and all the educators reached out to understand her varied levels of learning. By 2007, when she became comfortable in her new environment with a new set of experienced educators, her health issues started hampering herContinue reading “Chapter 13”

Finding joy in everything! Daughter now eleven, watched this newborn closely and took interest in observing the activities around him. We tried to involve her in whatever way possible and realised that she was understanding and developing feelings like concern and care. She learnt to keep the door shut when the baby slept and heldContinue reading “Chapter 12”

Praying in any form is powerful… Every mother asks for her child’s safety, good health and happiness in her prayers. Whenever I spoke to God, I asked him to cure my daughter inspite of knowing that Autism cannot be cured. Now I had one more request, “Lord kindly gift me a healthy child”. My motherContinue reading “Chapter 11”

Big Question….What happens after us? We were either running away from this question or had no time to think about it!How will she live…where… with whom…when we are not around?Suggestions started pouring in! At present, our daughter was quite settled in school and we had faith that she will be coping and learning better withContinue reading “Chapter 10”

Time to pause, take a long breath and look around…. My daughter started settling down in her school, and her working hours stabilized. This gave me almost four hours to myself. Slowly I started learning to divert my mind away from the constant worry of hoping that she is fine, not troubled and not troublingContinue reading “Chapter 9”

Excitement…apprehension….Gratitude ….for the new journey! All set to enter the big and beautiful school! Uniform ready with a new school bag, bottle and tiffin box…all nicely labelled. A few days prior to the first day in school, I met up with the educators of school to give them an idea of the present level ofContinue reading “Chapter 8”

Diagnosis and label….importance of both! We needed to get some assessments done for the new start in the new school. When my daughter was around three years old, we had got her MIR and CT scan done to see if physiologically she was ok. Psychological assessments done then at various institutes and clinics could notContinue reading “Chapter 7”

Good luck ….followed by a big surprise…and bigger celebration…. In my college I had studied Child Development and I was in touch with my professor. She offered me to come and take a look at the new nursery school that was coming up and it would be attached with the college.This was a wonderful opportunityContinue reading “Chapter 6”