Mom, ay. How a child with autism taught us to be happy

This book is not just the story of one family in which a special boy Yasha was born. “Mom, Au” is a diary full of attentive observations and honest reflection, in which there is a place of sadness and joy, fear and courage, despair and love. Maria Dubova writes about how to raise a child with a diagnosis of autism. How to live when your son does not understand you? How do parents know that the son does not feel pain and he has no sense of fear? How in these circumstances not to forget about the rest of the family, and most importantly - about yourself? The book is an attempt to find and formulate answers to all these questions, and the comments of the psychologist will be useful to other parents. And not only to parents of special children, but to everyone who is tired and feels on the verge, without strength and desire to move on. “The last and, probably, the most important thing for me: Yashka revealed me from the inside. I had to go down to the very bottom to understand who I am and what I can. It was necessary to touch the bottom in order to push away from it and surfaced to the surface. I had to survive depression, for five years to take antidepressants. I had to feel what complete powerlessness is, what a misunderstanding is. It was necessary to realize what physical and mental pain is to accept and understand your child and to accept and understand yourself. ”