Hoy quiero plantear una reflexión incómoda pero urgente, tanto desde mi rol como directora de LICA como desde mi lugar de mamá. En los espacios de incidencia política, en las leyes y en los colectivos de derechos humanos, el término «madres cuidadoras» o «familias cuidadoras» ha tomado una fuerza inmensa, especialmente ahora en el marco…

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Ser madre y pediatra me ha enseñado que el amor y la ciencia no están en orillas opuestas, sino que se complementan cuando se trata de comprender la vida en su forma más auténtica. Fui madre después de haber recibido mi título de pediatra. Así que ya conocía muy bien las etapas del desarrollo de…

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La primera vez que escuche esta pregunta no supe qué responder, y no porque el autismo sea un enigma para mí, sino porque tener un hermano con autismo es -en mi caso- lo mismo que tener un hermano, así sin más. Para todos los que tienen hermanos, seguro me entienden mejor. La hermandad, es la…

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It has been a few years since we traveled by plane as a family. We were excited about the vacation we had planned and for which we had anticipated our son Juan José, a 20-year-old young man with autism. Everything was going very well until, for reasons we still don't understand, something bothered him emotionally and he couldn't...

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From my experience as a psychologist, I have had the opportunity to share and interact with young people on the autism spectrum, where each one of them, from their way of being, shows me various perspectives of thinking, feeling and acting. Respecting each other's differences, creating a relationship of equality, in which we strengthen each other. This has been…

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One of the biggest fears we had in the face of autism was schooling; because we know that a large part of the progress made in its process is in a correct school inclusion. His preschool stage was done by the hand of a kindergarten, which, although it did not have established adaptation processes...

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Óscar Julián: You called me dad and I have never heard your voice again Sergio Andrés: You walked waving your hands and moving your head from left to right I will never forget the previous two scenes that made me realize that something was wrong with my children . In the following paragraphs I will write, in the form…

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