Amanda Morin

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It's either you.org or understood.org.
And on the very front page, you're going to find a back to school icon that you can click on and go through the back to school kit.
super simple.
I'm Amanda Morin.
I'm the associate director of thought leadership and expertise at Understood.
I'm the author of a number of books, including The Everything Parents Guide to Special Education and a book called Adulting Made Easy.
But more importantly though, I think is that I'm a parent to neurodiverse children and I'm neurodiverse myself.
And it's been really interesting and exciting to watch neurodiversity open its aperture over the past few years to include not just autism, but also people like me who aren't autistic but share some of those same ways of approaching life differently.
The world is just beginning to recognize that being neurodiverse is sort of just a variation of the human experience.
And I'd like for us to get to a place where those variations are just accepted.
And the world has sort of built in accommodations to support everyone.
But we're not there yet.
And the way our schools, our workplaces, and even our communities are set up.
Neurodiversity often impacts our ability to thrive in some aspect of our lives.
So I think it's really important we continue to move towards seeing neurodiversity through this asset based lens and not a deficit based one.
But until we're there, we need to keep recognizing and supporting both the beauty of neurodiversity and also the challenges that come with it.
I guess I will start.
I'm Amanda Morin.
I'm a writer and senior expert in family advocacy and education at Understood.
I'm also a mom to three kids, two of whom uh learn differently.
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