Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation
Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation
I like to establish a foundation with new clients, especially when I’m working with their parents and not directly with the child. This particular kiddo is not confirmed as neurodivergent, is very academically capable, and is being bossed around by anxiety at the moment. When I am supporting her I feel it is important that am not her therapist, her teacher, her mum’s mate; I am her friend. This is a letter sent to a[…]
There are countless misunderstandings surrounding neurodivergence, including around behaviours and intentions, especially in children. As a neurodivergent person raising neurodivergent children, I find myself repeatedly engaging in long, heartfelt conversations with parents. Lost parents. Confused parents. Well-intentioned, loving, kind parents who don’t know what to do next. I see undiagnosed kids struggling, and children who have been diagnosed with one neurodivergence whose parents haven’t been informed about possible – even likely! – comorbidities. Parents who[…]
