María Julia Oliván has made an important decision to stay close to her son. Photo: file.
Maria Giulia Olivan (47), at the end of 2018, he decided to leave the panel of intractable (America) to devote himself almost exclusively to the care of his son Antonio, who was diagnosed on the autism spectrum.
Since that moment the journalist, who also quit her job on the radio, has moved away from the media, postpone your careerto accompany the baby and take care of the treatment.
“Since that time I have worked 100 times harder than I have worked in my entire life. And I felt guilty for saying no to those who called me to be on a show. ‘Give me some free time,’ they told me. And what time would he tell them? At 11:30 I take him out of school, at 12 I take him here, at 2 there … I am busy all day! “, María Julia said in a note to La Nación.
María Julia Oliván with her son Antonio. Photo: file.
On how he experienced his decision to leave his profession aside, he assured him that he felt “guilty”.
“But the first day I didn’t work and I was able to stay with Antonio at night, I was happy. Since then, every day I hang out with him to play and we have an incredible world of games, stories and laughs that is the best stimulation possible. At first we had animal wallpaper on the wall and we said names, I hugged him, I tickled him. He loved it. But it’s true, who says no to the ten production companies that exist in the country? After that, you know you will be left out of work. It’s as you say: everything I’ve done up to here is everything, “said Oliván.
And then he explained why he has no intention of leaving his son in the care of a babysitter: “That situation is difficult because sometimes they give him his cell phone for many hours. And you know that his evolution depends on stimuli. You can leave him with a babysitter, but you hurt yourself in the future because what you do up to 6 years of life of the child is essential for the expectation of evolution, I do not know if everyone knows, there is no way that someone behaves like a kindergarten teacher all day like a mother does, you have to move around, take him to different therapies. I want to be there for him, which is the one who ultimately makes all the effort. “
María Julia Oliván, her husband and their son. Photo: file.
“Thousands of mothers wrote to me. At that moment I realized that we all feel alone and we all need to be accompanied. When I started walking the path, I saw that I was ‘battered’ with the paperwork, with the therapies .. Nobody tells you things clearly And if I, who have my head trained to understand what I do not know, I could not understand, as does a person who has four children, who has not finished high school and who has never had to let him discover a topic he doesn’t know? I started publishing everything I was discovering, all the therapies I was learning about. And the mothers thanked me, they wrote me “told the reporter about the start of her brand new podcast mom chat (available on Spotify) in which she recounts her experience as a mother of an autistic son.
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