After Us: The Paperwork of Love
Every parent reading this blog knows the question. Gayatri has written about it here — the one that arrives uninvited at 2 a.m., while you are cleaning a sofa o…
15 July 2026Read more →
Power Thoughts
Insights and stories for parents on the journey
Understanding ABA Beyond the Myths
“Is ABA good or bad?” I've been asked this question more times than I can count. Sometimes it comes from parents who have just received their child's autism dia…
12 July 2026Read more →
What Does Success Really Look Like for an Autistic Child?
Walk into any therapy centre or school, and one question echoes through the corridors: “Is my child improving?” It is a question every parent asks, every teache…
11 July 2026Read more →
The Mental Load Nobody Sees
Invisible cognitive load. Chronic vigilance. Decision fatigue. Uncertainty. All wonderful, accurate terms. What do they mean? I shoot upright in an instant. Fro…
6 July 2026Read more →
Power That Is
“Krishna is on the autism spectrum,” the doctor said. The words hit me like a freight train. Once I got over the shock, I assumed that a year or two of therapy …
29 June 2026Read more →
How does a child acquire language skills?
With the increase in the number of children having delayed speech and language development let us just explore early language acquisition . All living beings on…
26 June 2026Read more →
And a Life to Live: An Autism Parent's Journey
We were washing poop sheets for the nth time that night. It was around two in the morning. Exhausted, my husband looked at me. His gaze softened for a moment. “…
8 June 2026Read more →
Building a Village: The Autism Support Ecosystem
The Futures We Imagine When I was seven years old, my father and I would wake at five-thirty in the morning and walk to Nehru Park in Delhi's Chanakyapuri. The …
1 June 2026Read more →
Autism Therapies: What Exactly Are We Trying To Change?
When Krishna began speech therapy, he had excellent expressive language and poor communication. At the end of one year, he was nonverbal. And I love telling thi…
25 May 2026Read more →
What is Autism?
Why Parents search for answers beneath the spectrum There is a particular kind of archaeology that begins after an autism diagnosis. Parents become historians o…
18 May 2026Read more →
A Friend, Indeed!
The other day, someone spoke about offline friends and online friends—how she connects more deeply with offline ones. Yesterday, I made a brand new online frien…
16 March 2026Read more →
What’s in a Name!
“Baby name?” “Krishnan Srinivasan.” “You’re the mother, Ma’am?” “Yes.” “Your name?” “Gayatri Vathsan.” Pause. Whether the pause was because my surname is differ…
9 March 2026Read more →