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The Importance of Parenting for Neurodiversity
I think having children and being a parent is such a big motivator, actually for having that self compassion and self acceptance. Lots of neurodivergent individuals talk about how the script that they were given, the role that they were assigned in the family is some form of the idiot. It's really hard to shake that internal sense of, yeah, but I'm the idiot, and we sound a little bit like a broken record today. So it's about unpacking all your own childhood stuff, getting to a place where you feel compassion for yourself, then being able to communicate that to your child.