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How disability affects legal consequences for your child

My teenage son with ADHD got arrested for shoplifting and when I told the lawyer about his diagnosis she looked at me like I was making excuses and maybe I am but also maybe the world needs to understand.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between accountability and neurodivergence forces navigation of systems that see explanation as excuse-making.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Parenting a child with disability or neurodivergence?”

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