My daughter is getting bullied at school for being weird and I want to tell her she's autistic like me but she's only eight and I don't know if that will help or hurt her.
More people experience this than they realize.
The desire to provide a child with explanatory frameworks for their differences must be balanced against their developmental readiness and social context.
“Where Are You with Belonging for neurodivergent people?”
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