Mom Kees Momma, recognized from documentaries about autism, has died

Henriëtte Momma died on the finish of final month on the age of 90. She was recognized from numerous documentaries that present how her son Kees Momma tries to guide an impartial life regardless of his autism.

Documentary maker Monique Nolte confirms the demise of Momma’s mom to the AD. “She did all the things she might to provide Kees a ravishing and greatest life, the query now could be how he’ll do with out her.”

In 1998, Kees grew to become Momma via Nolte’s A trainman being probably the most well-known Dutch folks with autism. Within the documentary she recorded how the growing old couple tried to make sure future for his or her son.

There was a symbiotic bond, particularly between mom and son: the documentary confirmed how the mom, on the one hand, needed extra independence for Kees, however she additionally needed to guard her extremely delicate son from experiences horrible within the outdoors world.

Documentaries adopted later All the perfect for Kees in Kees flies out, through which counting the years of the mother and father was more and more central. Father Willem Momma is now 94.

Nolte believes that the household has accomplished rather a lot to make autism a subject of debate within the Netherlands. Henriëtte Momma had a transparent mission, Nolte says within the AD. “At a time after we did not know a lot about autism, she was capable of assist Kees develop by specializing in his abilities, corresponding to drawing, portray and writing. This allowed Kees to develop in a particular approach.”

So the affect of the demise is nice, she continues within the newspaper. “The household scenario is now altering rather a lot and Kees has to discover a solution to cope with it.” However, based on her, Momma, 59, is doing nicely, given the circumstances.

Nolte is engaged on two new movies that comply with that course of. The primary must be printed subsequent yr, the second a yr after that. The movies give attention to Kees’ last transfer from his mother and father’ residence and the affect it had on the household.