Gran Canaria : March 31, 2023
Carmen Rosa Pulido Armas, or Rosi as we know her at Envera, is a Social Integration intern and mother of twins, one of them, Roman, diagnosed with ASD, and we had the opportunity to interview her in our Radio Terrícola studios in Gran Canaria.
Rosi explained what it is and what characterizes a person with ASD, how it is to live with them and how all aspects of the disorder evolve, both in people who have it and in their environment.
Being parents entails a change of priorities and Rosi has shared from our microphones what it is like to live with this condition of life in the family and socially. The textures of clothes or food become vitally important. Our student has a thousand anecdotes and uses them to illustrate everything she has learned about ASD: "We looked for a school with few students, I got involved in the AMPA and we managed to get the school siren to no longer be "an alarm", but now it is music that we even adapt to the holidays and that has even managed to motivate Román and the rest of the children when they enter the school".
Rosi tells us how her life has changed as a result of the diagnosis of ASD and how she has "fallen in love with disability" as she has been training to accompany her son Román. She also explains how they managed to get their other son, Juan, Román's twin brother, to understand his brother's reality.
She declares that her main objective is to make ASD visible and normalized in society and that people with this disorder are understood and have the same opportunities and possibilities as the rest.