Despite the Judgement, This Mom Focuses on the 'Small Wins' in Raising Her Autistic Son

Despite the Judgement, This Mom Focuses on the 'Small Wins' in Raising Her Autistic Son

When Mugdha Kalra walked into a school admission interview in 2013 with her four-and-a-half-year-old son, she thought it would be a routine conversation about his future. Instead, she walked out in silence — shaken, confused, and barely able to drive herself back home. That day, a counsellor gently suggested something she had never considered before: that her son, Madhav, might be autistic. “I was not ready for it,” Mugdha recalls. “I left witho…