My brothers keeper Autism and sibling/s relationship is one of unconditional love. For many pairings where one sibling is autistic and the other neurotypical there exist this high level of oneness and understanding of the others strengths and weaknesses. In my case I had my daughter first before Mvelo, in the beginning the sister didn't understand why the brother will display certain types of behaviors and doesn't engage in a dialogue. Honesty and transparency with my daughter was what helped her understand. There would be times when things would not go well in the playground and the sister will get frustrated because the brother decided to run away instead of playing in the swing. My first way of explaining was to give her simple explanations to say Mvelo is running off and is extra hyper today because he ate too much sweets and is now having ADD. That was my first way of introducing labels, she did not know what ADD is, but she knew th...
Hallo world!! It was on the 08th of February 2012 that we received yet another beautiful gift, in the form of a baby boy. In 2010 we had been blessed with a baby girl, on that day I could very well say I was also reborn. I just didn't know such love exist inside one. My husband had named our daughter Okuhle (Nguni name for all that beautiful) and I gave our son the name Mvelo (Nguni name for nature). Mvelo resonated with me, something inside my spirit gave me the name and just like that it was to be. On this blog I will be reflecting on our family journey with autism, I will be sharing with you our triumphs, tough time, magical and proudest moments. The diagnosis Our son has always been a happy go chappie, full of energy, fearless, curios, keeping up with him meant getting exhausted before him. We have always find that funny about him and somehow thought"it a boy thing' all boys have lots of steam to burn. It became apparent to us that s...