Andrea Owen
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442 appearances
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first heard Oct 2017
last heard Oct 2017
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I just have to remember
that, you know, this is their life to be lived and that, you know, whether he's differently wired or not, he's a human being who was born resilient.
And we all are.
You know, we are we are born for struggle to survive struggle.
And I try to remember too and be grateful that he has a mother that can't protect him from the pain, but I am definitely a soft place for him to land when he has pain.
Yeah, um well I'm Andrea Owen and first and foremost I'm a mom and I'm also an author and life coach.
And my son is my differently wired child.
I I also have a seven year old daughter and my son is nine.
He actually shares a birthday with Asher.
That's right.
Yes.
And he well so he'll be ten the summer of of twenty seventeen.
And his diagnosis officially came when he was five, I believe.
It was it was the same year that they dropped Asperger's from the DSM.
So his official diagnosis is
High functioning autism with sensory processing disorder and anxiety disorder.
And that happened when he was about um about to start kindergarten and now he's in we're just finishing up third grade.
He's in a regular mainstream elementary school, public school now.
And we've
I've had conversations with you about, you know, should we send him to a private school?
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