URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT

To all my readers, followers, and supporters alike. I want to thank each one of you for supporting my new blog, The Autism Wall. By now I am sure you all know what I am blogging about but to those who have just started following me, let me explain it to you. I blog about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and I enjoy writing about this subject because it’s very close to my heart. Actually, let me take that back, autism is not very close to my heart — it is my heart. I live and breathe it.

You all know that I was happy to provide you with my autism dose twice a week on Wednesdays and Fridays at 10:00 am (South African Time), and that’s what this announcement is about. I hereby announce to you that even though I am still going to continue providing this dose, I’m afraid I must cut the dosage to one instead of two and I will tell you why.

You all know that my son is severely autistic, right? And that he suffers from two other mental disorders as well. So, lately, I’ve been struggling with him, and this has put a lot of strain on me. He was away for a few months from December last year and only got back the first week of April. He’s been out of routine since and I am busy putting him back on, but I am struggling.

Ever since he got back, he doesn’t sleep at all. Sometimes he sleeps around three in the morning, sometimes at five, and sometimes at seven. He’s louder than ever, and more energetic than before. So, I’m not keeping up because I take care of him during the day and work around the hours and mostly at night. I do my writing work at night but that hasn’t been the case since April.

I’ve been managing to surf this chaotic and dragging wave but lately, I can’t as he’s become more than I can handle. I haven’t slept since April, and I am so tired. That is why I am cutting my posting. From now on, I will only post once a week and not twice like I’ve been doing, and I will post on Fridays starting this week.

My sincere apologies for this inconvenience on my part, but I promise you that it is only temporal. As soon as my boy is back on his routine, I will increase my weekly posting again. Please, understand that it is not easy to raise an autistic child alone. It takes everything out of you. But as I said, I am only cutting the dosage, not depriving you all together.

I ask you all to please understand and be patient with me because, at the moment I’m just too exhausted. So, this is the last post that you will get this Wednesday, and from next week, I will only post once, on Friday. Again, thank you very much for your love and support and please, do not dare unsubscribe because like the Terminator always says — I’ll BE BACK. I say Wednesday’s posts will be back. Soon.