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When to tell your young child they're autistic like you

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.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to provide a child with explanatory frameworks for their differences must be balanced against their developmental readiness and social context.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Belonging for neurodivergent people?”

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