Federica Quijano defends her autistic son from criticism: “He’s not a child who hits”

Federica Quijano continues to recover from tendinitis in her hand after being hit by her autistic son on Jan. 11 and has provided more details about the incident.
According to his story, Sebastian suffered a seizure to calm him down as well Try putting him in cold water.

“Waiting for it to go away, to calm down, sometimes putting it in cold water helps, that’s what we were trying to do that day, but obviously with the banging of my head my hand fell asleep and I couldn’t take it anymore and these are that scare you, those He’s getting stronger and I’m getting older.“It’s reality,” the 52-year-old singer said in an interview on the show “De Primera Mano,” which aired on January 12.

The member of the music group Kabah confessed what he fears most about Sebastián, who is now 16 years old.

” What will happen to them when I’m gone?,” he said, referring to his two adopted children, Maria and Sebastian. “That’s my concern and that’s why I work every day, I have four jobs and I start at 80, so that tomorrow, when I’m not here anymore, my son does not end up in a mental institution and that he will be abused or that I won’t be able to control him when he grows up, that’s my biggest fear,” she confessed visibly affected.

Federica Quijano is afraid that her son will hurt her

The singer shared that although she knows her son, he cannot prevent the crises he goes through.

“There is no way, you learn to know your child, you learn to know his stimuli, There are times when there are new stimuli. On the other hand, he is already a teenager, he is 16 years old, add adolescence plus these stimuli that are food, the iPad, being glued to the TV all the time, since I have him in home lessons, his teacher has autism as well then sometimes he gets bored of being at school and explodeshe explained.

“It still has a trigger that we don’t know and it could happen at any time and that’s what scares me, that tomorrow it will happen.” give me a push or maria throw me down the stairs“I don’t know,” he shared with concern.

Federica Quijano defends her son

The representative from Mexico also came to the defense of the teenager after the comments she receives on social networks and explained that the aggressive attacks against her are due to her condition.

” Sebastián is not a child who hits, Sebastián is a disabled child and I can’t hide it, I’ll never say my son is violent and can’t live with it, no, he just has a trigger that sometimes he can control and sometimes he can’t.”

“As parents we don’t know when it’s going to happen, that’s why I’ve been pulled out of restaurants, out of this, out of that, because you don’t know when your child is going to react or what might trigger it in that moment,” he added in the interview.

The evolution of the son of Federica Quijano

The singer managed to adopt Sebastián when he was one year and five months old, because the little one found in a trash can from Mexico City “with the umbilical cord, with pneumonia, rhinitis, decalcified and bitten by rats and so on,” he told “De Primera Mano.”

She has been taking care of him ever since, which is why he was diagnosed with autism at the age of three and a half. However, over 16 years he has achieved a change in his offspring, although he knows it “will never be” “self-sufficient”.

“My son is a warrior, he is a wonderful child that today He knows how to read, write, cleans his room, dresses himself, bathes himself“It doesn’t mean I can be self-sufficient, it never will be, but I managed to get Sebastian to change a lot of things,” he said.