RESILIENCE IN BLUE: A mother’s journey through love, science, and our dis-ease of Autism
By Cathay Yenana:
In Bagamoyo, Tanzania. Regular drum making, acrobatics, arts, dance and music with boys from the neighbourhood. After evaluation and realisation of autism
A Different Kind Of Mountain
When a mother first hears the word autism, the world doesn’t end; it tilts. Time slows down, questions multiply, and the familiar becomes uncertain. It’s not the diagnosis itself that changes her life, but the vast, uncharted terrain that follows, the search for understanding, the daily negotiations with systems ill-equipped to help, and the quiet strength required to keep going when the world refuses to adapt.
For Nena Tenacity, a South African woman now living between SA and Bagamoyo, Tanzania, that word became both a challenge and a calling. Amani, her son who is l...