Author's Note

Due to a sudden influx of negative accusations of me on a personal level that are completely irrelevant to the primary objective of this blog, I have chosen to not approve comments of such character, not because I cannot handle the criticism but it's just too heartbreaking to have such horrible words shared on the same page as the stories of my beautiful son.

This blog was mainly created to share Raiyan's stories, past, present and insyaAllah a better future so that we can give the message out to other autism parents that there is hope out there for their children. I admit that along the way, telling his story has required me to also share some factual events that have happened which has caused Raiyan to be where he is now. I completely apologise if persons that are affected by my sharing of these factual events feel like they have been unfairly criticized by me. Please believe me that it was never my intention to undermine you and your organisation and if you care to read my post entries more closely, I can safely say that you can see I tried very hard to be professional in all of the 5 (out of 42) posts where you and your organisation are mentioned. If you still think otherwise, then I duly invite you to highlight to me exactly where I have shown such lack of discreetness so that I know what exactly I need to work on.

As I said, this blog is about Raiyan's journey with autism and it is my dream that one day he is able to read it and look back and see how far he has come from. With that I seek your understanding as to why it is too important for me as his mother, to preserve the records of his journey in the most positive light and more importantly to not let it be tarnished by side discussions on patriotism and politics that have nothing to do with Raiyan's condition and progress.

It has greatly saddened me that this sudden influx of negative and irrelevant comments now runs the risk of diverting precious attention away from reading heartwarming stories of our Raiyan.

I still more than welcome comments but I request that even if it is on a negative point, please keep it on a professional level and most of all make sure they are constructive comments that will ultimately help Raiyan in his journey.

I am grateful to my dear sister for reminding me of essentially why I keep this blog and the fact that even though I do want to give everyone their fair chance to say something, I nevertheless am still in control as to what should be displayed in maintaining the basic principle of what this blog is about. I recommend you read her most eloquent ways in explaining and arguably to some, justifying, this need to do so at this post of hers.

Thank you and Wassalam.

Update: It has come to light (man sometimes I really am that slow!) that the attack towards me and Learning Ladders was not necessarily because I personally have provoked the issue in my posts and comments but more because I had allowed one provocative comment to pass through, specifically the comment made by EG M from Newcastle, which I have now deleted. I understand now how the comment have angered so many and I sincerely apologise for the momentary lapse of judgment on my part to still have published that post despite the negativity it was brewing up. To EG M, we really did appreciate some of the points made in your comment about the inadequacies that exist in Brunei when dealing with autism. Nevertheless I have to stay true to my point in not allowing extreme negativities in this blog about Raiyan and whilst admittedly you made some valid points worthy of further investigation by the appropriate authorities, I only wished you delivered them in a manner that didn't provoke so many and opened this floodgate of angry rants on irrelevant things that I really needed to put a stop to.