Devorah Heitner
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard 17 Oct
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Of course, sure.
So I am Deborah Heitner and I wrote Screenwise, Helping Kids Thrive and Survive in their digital world.
And I just finished writing and will be out next year growing up in public.
And that's about kids making their way in this world as surveilled as they are and as public as they are on social media and kind of navigating the searchability and reputation challenges and privacy challenges of being a young person today.
I work with schools all over the country and the world and I help parents especially understand their digital kids.
I mean it's really tricky because you know, we know digital spaces can be areas of strength for folks who are differently wired, and we know that.
Building community online has a lot of accessibility advantages, whether you're neurodiverse, whether you have any physical disabilities.
Like for so many people, connecting with people online has been a life-changing opportunity for all kinds of different reasons, whether
It's the fact that you have a really niche interest and there's 10 people around the world but they don't live where you do, whether it's because eye contact is a little bit uncomfortable, there might be all kinds of reasons.
And I think it's fair to say that a lot of us, including you and me, right, Debbie, who are know each other from the internet, but then have met in person.
So there's also the fact that the internet and digital spaces are spaces where we can connect, and that doesn't for you know foreclose the possibility of like an IRL relationship.
So I think
That's really important.
But but yeah, I think neurodivergent kids, differently wired young people can really fall into some tricky situations potentially.
They can also, again, this can be an area of strength.
They can make friends in a game that they play.
They can have a leadership.
Opportunity in, say, like a Discord server that they might not go for.
Like they might not be the kid who wants to run for vice president of their junior class in high school, but they might be the kid who wants to be the moderator on a server, right?
And so it's an opportunity again to step into leadership.
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