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 →
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…
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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 →