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From Hurt to Happiness: Stories of Successful Relationships with Special Needs Siblings.
A few days ago, a random post on one of the fb groups caught my attention. The contents of that post reminded me of a promise I’d made last year with my Instagram followers. A promise to write a review on a Korean drama, It’s Okay to Not be Okay, coupled with my own first…
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Come September
Dear Abbu! They say grief is the unexpressed love, the unspoken words, that couldn’t be communicated. A lot of things are left unsaid. I realized just too late that we never really had deep conversations. We never talked about YOUR dreams, YOUR wishes and desires, and now I’ll never know. Abbu! when we were called…
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Cameron Highlands, Malaysia: An Autism Friendly Holiday Destination!
Life for most of the Autism families is difficult. Most of our time, energy, and resources are spent on juggling between therapies, school runs, house chores, and life in general. At the end of the day, we hardly have any energy or the motivation left to plan recreational trips as a family. When it comes…
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Introspection!
The day she was born she was shifted to the NICU even before I could completely come to my senses and hold and kiss her rosy red cheeks. Seven days later I was discharged whereas she was shifted to the NICU of the city’s biggest hospital with the state of the art facilities. She was…
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A Broken Shoe ‘Affair’ !
Oh no! Not again! Not here!! Not NOW!!! ‘ Uh – oh! Ummm… I hate to break it to you, but I think it has happened yet again!’ , I announced rather sheepishly after getting out of the car. After taking just a few steps, I had come to realize that my joggers had chosen…
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A Floral Affair!!
Once upon a time, more than 20 years ago, when one had to learn to code to be able to design a website, I had embarked on the journey to create a website ( as part of an assignment during my bachelor’s degree) on gardening, main focus being on the flowers. My dad was an…
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The Fig Tree.
There is a fig tree right behind our apartment building. It is huge! It is visible from my kitchen window and accessible from the balcony outside the kitchen where I hang my laundry to dry. I have witnessed it in all four seasons. I saw how it’s leaves changed colour in autumn and withered away.…
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Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind. “You are as happy as your weakest child ! “ When I heard this statement in a podcast, it hit home. It was something I had not realised before but coming out of somebody else’s mouth I thought to myself, Gosh! It is so true!…
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Reflections!
“Chal Gulshan Ara Syed”, he would say in utter exasperation after trying all his tricks to make me smile. Gulshan Ara Syed was a very famous Pakistani singer of her times. She used to sing with a serious face, that’s why my father used to compare the “baby me” with her. According to my parents,…
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Different Eras of Entertainment!
What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times? I clearly reminisce that hot summer afternoon some 32 yrs ago when our father brought home a VCR ( if you don’t know what it is, then congratulations you don’t belong to the “19th century” like me 🤪). My elder brother, who was…
RockHardMom
This blog is about the struggles in raising a TCHD plus PDD-NOS child in Pakistan with all its highs and lows!!
Sana Arsalan is a homemaker, a loving mom of three, a passionate writer, and an aspiring content creator and digital artist who believes in sharing her knowledge, wisdom and stories with others in the hope that it might help someone when the going gets tough for them.
” It is the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
– Paulo Coelho
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