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When you center yourself in your child's disability story

I realized I talk about my son's autism diagnosis like it happened to me instead of him and I do not know when I started making his neurodivergence about my experience as his mother.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The overwhelming impact on the family system can eclipse the child's own experience of their neurodivergence, confusing who needs support for what.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Parenting a child with disability or neurodivergence?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.