Six modules built specifically for the Zimbabwean context — the weight of caregiving without a system, the cultural and religious pressures, safeguarding, navigating therapy and schools, and finding your way back to yourself. For mothers, grandmothers and every woman raising an autistic child in Zimbabwe.
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What you will carry away from this
"You have been carrying this largely alone, in a country where the systems to support you do not yet exist. That is not failure. That is extraordinary love under impossible conditions."
— A Course for Mothers of Autistic Children in Zimbabwe
There is no SEND system in Zimbabwe. No formal pathway from diagnosis to support. No professional whose job it is to tell you what your child needs and how to find it. This course builds that map for you.
Curses. Blame. Spiritual explanations. Things said by family, by community, by your faith circle — that placed on you a weight that was never yours to carry. This course names them and sets them down.
The hypervigilance. The planning that never stops. The medical load. The advocacy. The household. All of it running at the same time, most of it invisible. This course sees it — and names it accurately.
In Zimbabwe many autistic children are raised by grandmothers, aunts or family members. This course is equally for you. The love is the same. The weight is the same. You deserve the same support.
You are not looking for a way out of your life. You want to function better inside it — for yourself, and because you know it matters for your child. Co-regulation is the foundation of this entire course.
Not a Western self-care course with no relevance to your life. Not generic advice that assumes resources and systems you do not have. This was built from inside the Zimbabwean experience — for you.
The caregiving load, the planning tax, the hypervigilance, safeguarding named directly, and a specific acknowledgement of grandmothers and family carers — because in Zimbabwe the primary caregiver is frequently not the biological mother.
Co-regulation explained clearly and personally. Why your state shapes your child's experience. The difference between numbing and genuinely restoring. The daily check-in practice.
Curses, blame and witchcraft addressed directly without condemnation. Religious pressure and Pentecostal church expectations named honestly. A practical tool for separating false beliefs from truth.
No SEND system — named clearly. The legal rights that do exist — Constitutional, CRPD, Disabled Persons Act. How to navigate therapy and schools. Direct links to your free advocacy tools.
Surviving versus building. The One Thing practice. Using your extended family network as a resource. Rebuilding identity — not going back, moving forward within the life you are living.
Co-regulation as a way of living. The positive that genuinely exists alongside everything hard. Your three commitments. The final message — for every mother reading this in Zimbabwe.
This course was not written from a position of having arrived somewhere easier. It was written from inside the experience — by a Zimbabwean mother who knows this community, who understands what is said in homes and churches and family gatherings when a child's autism is not understood, and who has spent years building the knowledge and the platform that families like hers could not find.
The credential is lived experience. Not clinical distance. Not a research framework. The inside of this life — offered to every mother in Zimbabwe who is where she once was.
Autism Awareness Zimbabwe was built because the gap existed and needed filling. This course was built for the same reason.
"This is not a course about surviving your life. It is a course about understanding it — and building something sustainable inside it. For yourself. Because you matter too." — Autism Awareness Zimbabwe
A Course for Mothers of Autistic Children in Zimbabwe
Six modules · Zimbabwe specific · Lifetime access
One-time payment · All 6 modules · Any device