Hi, I’m Lida.
Mother of a five-year-old boy, raising my family in Sweden.
I started this blog by writing about the things I had already spent years searching, reading, and thinking about, not topics chosen at random, but questions that arrived in my own life and stayed.
That has included the long process of watching early milestones, staying open to differences even when they were subtle, and following those questions all the way to assessment and a diagnosis of mild autism, or Autism Level 1. It has also included thinking about family size, sibling questions, and what it means to raise one child in the middle of so many assumptions about what a family is supposed to look like.
I spent a long time looking for other parents’ stories, research that could calm or challenge my worries, and explanations that made sense in everyday life. At some point, I realised that if I was already doing so much of that reading and searching, I might as well write about what I was learning and how I was making sense of it.
Most of what you will find here sits in two areas: navigating mild autism and raising one child.
My writing begins with my own experience and then widens into reading and research. My previous education and work have always involved research and analysis, so I naturally look for evidence, patterns, and nuance before I press publish. But this blog is not advice or professional guidance. It is a record of what I am trying to understand, one post at a time.
**A note on how I write: I use AI tools to help me draft and refine my posts. The experiences, research choices, opinions, and voice are my own. AI helps me shape them into clearer writing.