Having A Child With Autism

By: Melisa Tuya

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This book is the journey of the mother of a child with autism through overcoming the suspicion and denial, the difficulty in accepting the diagnosis and its volatility, the need to act, acceptance, what she can count on and what she can't and, finally, through normalization, taking the challenges, vindication and the search for happiness. The story is sincere and earnest. It is optimistic without trying to disguise the reality of this condition. The reflections and life experiences it shares aspire to help those who love a person living with autism or disability.

About Melisa Tuya

Melisa Tuya (Madrid, 1976) is a writer and reporter for 20minutos.es. She authors two blogs about adoption and responsible ownership of animals and her experience as a mother of two young children, one of whom has autism. Each blog boasts around 200,000 monthly views. She has collaborated regularly with El Mundo, Eroski Consumer and several magazines that focus on technology and the internet. In 2012 she was the Spanish winner and a finalist in Europe for the Health Prize for Journalists from the European Commission for her report “Assistance Dogs for People with Diabetes and Autism.” In 2008 she received the prestigious Blasillo Prize for ingenuity on the Internet from the Congress of Digital Journalism. She is the author of Galantea (2014), a science fiction novel, and Mastín (2015), a children's book.