Parenting a Neurodivergent child
Parenting a Neurodivergent child
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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I'm not a parent, however, my #1 recommendation for parents is: if the child is autistic, DO NOT listen to the many people who will push ABA (applied behavioral analysis) "therapy" on you. The organizations that push it are very good at making their bullshit look legitimate enough to get pushed by other organizations, including schools, but ABA was invented by the same person who invented gay conversion "therapy", and adult autistic folks who were subjected to it as children overwhelmingly regard it as abuse.
That aside, it's apparently really common for a child's diagnosis to lead to a parent's diagnosis too lol. Especially for parents who don't fit the incredibly specific stereotypes.
For ADHD, I would like to recommend the youtube channel How to ADHD. I don't always agree with it on all points (for example, I think it presents the differences between ADHD subtypes in too gendered of a way), but overall it's a well-researched resource that is good at presenting information in an easily digestible way, and because it's run by a woman with ADHD it avoids most of the issues that are common with resources run by neurotypical doctors and similar.
Thanks for the youtube recommendation.
I personally think it's valuable to have a non-parent perspective. There are too many parents who don't make an effort to seek out the viewpoints of ND folks. I could go on about how they're probably the same parents who expect kids to be a certain way and live up to their own expectations rather than be individual people but that's a rant for another day.