By Anupriya Chadha
“I always knew my daughter was special. Every mother thinks her child is special but I knew. So, special that the nurses in the baby clinic would crowd around to see her big and always blinking eyes. So special that she stayed awake all day and most of the night in order to observe the world… my child could attract a roomful of people to notice her.
But my daughter helped me overcome my inhibitions about being a public spectacle by throwing outrageous tantrums. She helped me become better acquainted with her pre-school teachers by challenging all those theories and systems ever created to make feel that any kind of hyperactivity in child can cause significant emotional, social and learning problems….”