Neurodivergence

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All things neurodivergent and relating to the broader neurodivergent community (and communities).

See also this community's sister subs Feminism, LGBTQ+, Disability, and POC

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Parenting a Neurodivergent child (beehaw.org)

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Who here is parenting an ND child?

Has finding out their diagnosis also led to you or their other parent to a late diagnosis?

Any resources you'd like to share with the community?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agree on the all points. Before our son's diagnosis, my son's principal told us that our child was just being defiant and we needed to punish him severely every time he acted up. I'm ashamed to admit that we actually tried this. In our defense, we didn't know what was going on and were getting desperate for answers. We stopped this quickly after it was obvious that this was doing more harm than good.

It turns out that taking a kid who is having an anxiety attack and punishing them for having an anxiety attack only makes the anxiety attack worse!

This same principal called my wife and I into his office to yell at us when we went over his head after he stonewalled us getting supports for our child (post-diagnosis). He definitely was the wrong person to listen to and we know SO much more now than we did then.