AN INCLUSIVE KIND WORLD

THE BEST OF THIS YEAR😊 Normally, I fly out of school when I am done with my exams, using the excuse of needing good food, but this time, it was because of Guarantee Trust Bank annual autism programme.  If I didn't attend this, I would probably hate myself right now. July 31st was a good day to end the month, to be honest. GtBank  would have to be my best bank right now, because I know we are both fighting for the same cause and  putting ourselves out there to make the world a better place. This is my first time attending this conference, the previous years I just take the souvenirs from my mummy and act like it's mine and accompany her and my brother to the consultation.  I felt myself yesterday. Ireti Doyle was in the house, people!😭 she was in the dance/drama presentation. It showcased the fact that the society was holding the affected individuals from being who they really are. Guess what? They sang the original song from the greatest showman "This is m

We need to adjust our way of thinking, to end the stigma of disabilities by educating children and adults about the differences individuals have. Recently , my brother turned 18🎊🎉 the legal age. He couldn't stop smiling that day. On the way back home from his school, I was in deep thoughts about his future. 18 is a very big age, close to the BIG 2.0 So, everyone bothers about their future. When I was younger, I thought of being an actress, a singer, a dancer, almost everything in the career book. Ideas were just floating in my head. The thing is that I have no reason to really panick about my future because I know that I have the means of communication to put myself out there to get a job or to get other things on my own. It got me thinking about “If he had the same privileges that we do, maybe it won’t be so hard for them to find a job or even a spouse. As a sibling or a parent to a special person, you find yourself explaining the child's condition to your friends

PARENTS Last time I wrote about how I handled the news of my brother being on the spectrum, possibly telling the other siblings who have special siblings that everything will be okay if they just understand their siblings and try their best to create time for them and appreciate their existence. So today is for the parents and also siblings though. I’m not a parent but I’m at that age to learn things, to accept them. I can tell that I’m probably going to be an extra and dramatic mother🤷 If you have a parent in your life or a parental figure in your life that actually loves you and does everything to make you happy, you’re so lucky. Trust me that they might not show you love the way you want it, but they do. I follow this Instagram platform for Autism parents and the way they talk about them is amazing. There are like super heroes. You can imagine how hard parenting is. How you have to sacrifice your own need for a person. I don’t know how I would handle it but parenthood is someth

HOW I DEALT WITH THE NEWS. Hiiiiiii. Let me just say my awesome friends pushed me to doing this and I love them❤️ So I have been so fortunate to know the word “Autism and everything it entails. I have a brother of 17 years who is autistic and if you knew me well, you would know I mention Tobi like a million times a day, when referring to anything. He's just in my mind everytime, gosh. Is it weird that I don’t remember my childhood? Maybe, But I think it’s so weird that I don’t understand how it happened, why it keeps happening to children, but I can tell that they are beautiful in every way and when my brother became autistic, was he meant to be this or was cursed? As a Nigerian, you question things like this and search for spiritual help.  I never knew of the situation till I was 14. When I was younger, I was ignorant. I didn’t know what was wrong with my brother. I was even too self-absorbed at that age or just busy looking for trouble. I didn’t know why he didn’t speak or w