the lockdown can be very challenging for parents of children with autism spectrum especially those like me who need to work from home manage house hold chores with no househelps coming and also attend to the childhowever personally i have been able to manage my work household my 24yearold son adarsh shetty who is under autism spectrum as well as my personal space quite wellwhat has helped me is putting up a written timetable for adarsh from 8am to 9pm any kind of uncertainty in the environment as well as in emotions of people living with them creates a lot confusion in these children leading to anxieties and all kinds of behavioural issues adarsh has a set of fixed activities which he follows daily having a structured schedule helps these children as well as parents in addition a written timetable for myself has helped me as he knows 11am to 8pm is his mothers office time from home and he shouldnt be disturbing heradarsh spends his time browsing epaper and learning different languages online he has a fixed time to watch tv listen to music take a sunbath chant hanuman chalisa practise yoga read and to wake up and go to bed he even wants to know what he will be eating for breakfast lunch snacks and dinner knowing his day in advance keeps him calmfor children with autism screentime is harmful in my sons case i have experienced that sleeplessness and screen time are somehow related to the seizures they can also be taught skills like household work it could be feeding pets doing laundry making the bed folding clothes cutting vegetables making his own tea and snacksthe writer is the mother of an autistic person and senior finance adviser with a private company