Christmas can be stressful for an an Autistic child As you know, my eldest son is autistic and over the years we’ve adapted how we…
Reena AnandDecember 22, 2020
This piece was written for an internal publication at work - it was published in May 2019. I read an insightful article on LinkedIn about…
Reena AnandJune 14, 2019
Being a mum of an autistic child I've learnt to flexibly adapt my plans to suit my eldest's mood - often it works but sometimes…
Reena AnandMay 12, 2019
We were over the moon when our son was born five years ago. After my earlier miscarriage - see Don’t say the ‘M’ word - I…
Reena AnandApril 2, 2019
I'm the eldest of three children who grew up in a traditional Indian Gujarati household where the gender roles were squarely defined. This meant that…
Reena AnandMarch 11, 2019
To understand the context of this statement let me tell you a bit about me. I’m a Hindu Gujarati. My father was born in the…
Reena AnandFebruary 24, 2019
To yourself, I hear you ask. She calls herself a writer but talks about standing up to rather than for yourself? You read right. I'll…
Reena AnandFebruary 2, 2019
Seven years ago I lost my baby. Though others didn’t call it that. It was called a ‘missed miscarriage’, a foetus, a zygote and ‘it’…
Reena AnandJanuary 22, 2019
Autism creates an interesting reaction amongst Indians. There’s the Fix-Its who’ll say “we’ll find a doctor in India that will have a cure” (because obviously…
Reena AnandJanuary 4, 2019
