The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday April 2nd, 2023 – World Autism Awareness Day
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2nd April as World Autism Awareness Day to focus the need of improving the lives of children and adults who suffer from the disorder so that they can lead independent and meaningful lives. The rate of autism in all parts of the world is high and it has a great impact on children lives, their families and communities.
Autism and Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are general terms used for a group of complex disorders of brain development. It’s a lifelong developmental disability that recognizes itself during the first three years of one’s life. These disorders are characterized by varying degrees of difficulties in verbal and nonverbal communications, social interactions and abnormal behaviors. They include Rett syndrome, Asperger syndrome and childhood disintegrative disorder. Many of them have exceptional abilities in drawing & painting, visual skills and music etc.
Moses in the wilderness by Abigail George
Sometimes Daphne imagined that wild Jenny was still in their house. Standing in the kitchen barefoot with her precocious two-year-old daughter underfoot.
Her daughter playing in the sitting room by herself, talking to the imaginary ‘Sandman’ or eating peanut butter out of the jar with sticky fingers.
Wild Jenny was a Catholic girl. Charlie never really confided in his older sister of how and when they had met. Charlie had always been a loner-introvert. Wild Jenny loved to ‘party’.
Daphne could still sometimes see wild Jenny with her beautiful long dark hair that she would wrap into a tight ballerina bun whenever she took a bath in the morning before she made her way to work downtown. There she was, Daphne would think to herself, wild Jenny with her daughter who had the same dark eyes and straight hair as her mother did. No curls in sight. There was wild Jenny making Sunday lunch. There was wild Jenny being a good mother. Those three years had gone by so fast. In the end, she had moved out with the tiny black and white television that had a hanger for an aerial that she had come with and all the material possessions that she owned in the world.
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Thoughts All Forthright #poem by Saloni Kaul
“How many times do we seek so at the highest
Their thoughts opinions on matters of our concern
As though age or position makes them much the wisest,
Able to take stands, magically matters discern.”
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Ghostin’ #61 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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