Last night’s Brooklyn Reading Works featured two blogger-mom who write about life, love, and learning with an autistic child and that description doesn’t do justice to the quality of writing and thinking that went on last evening.

Kristin Chew and Mother’s Vox are both scholars and excellent writers, who use their blogs as a way to reflect on their lives and reach out to others and map out a territory that can be profoundly confusing and challenging for parents.

Mother’s Vox writes eloquently of the perils of the diagnostic process and how the very things that are special about your child become pathologized by specialists.

About Kristina Chew’s writing Mother’s Vox writes, "it remains so eloquent and constant in its theme of infinite
affection and gratitude for her sweet boy not in spite of his autism,
but with all of him. Very moving, as ever, and a model for me of how to
live on the other side of hopes — the full instead of the less."

You can read about more about the event on Autism’s Edges. A podcast will be available there soon.