The Afrocentric Autism Supermom

“ A delusional belief held by a mother that she is capable of doing all things for all people”   One thing I keep learning as I parent my three children who are on the spectrum is that nothing in their world is ever black or white. Colours are always painted outside dotted lines. In their reality, there isn’t a silver lining. There’s gold and seven other colours of the rainbow lined up, sometimes spinning and twirling twenty four hours of each day. Children with autism neither subscribe to what society refers to as “normalcy” nor to the description of Bruno Bettelheim who had nothing else to do with his time but come up with ridiculous theories to sum up autism. Let’s not exclude the medical model of disability that finds pleasure in adding words such as “ incapable ”, “ deficient ” “ impaired ” “ unable ” “ limited ” “ disabled ” to describe autistics. The world has an annoying natural tendency to label anything that presents itself to go against the perceived  “normal” as ...