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ODD - Oppositional? Defiant? Or Just Misunderstood?

Neurodiversity Podcast

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The Importance of Understanding Oppositional Defiant Disorder

When a child is given a diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder, it's a psychiatric diagnosis. It comes from the DSM-5, which is sort of manual for describing different so-called disorders. What we also haven't really looked at is our cultural practices because we really normalized a lot of coercion in schools and in families. And if you're not trying to coerce somebody, it's really hard to be oppositional and defiant.

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