Devorah Heitner

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2,393 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2018 last heard 17 Oct

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 313a: Dr. Devorah Heitner on Online Safety and Internet “Rabbit Holes” and Neurodivergent Kids · 17 Oct 2025 podcast

So one way that kids have told me they end up on Discord, for example, which is a server-based chat app that was initially popular with gamers and is now used for chatting, but a lot

Is there'll be a link and a YouTube comment.

So someone will be like, Oh, you want to continue this conversation about this kind of anime, come over to this Discord server.

And so kids will start out maybe in one place on the internet, as we all do, like as I start out every morning in my inbox and end up by the end of the day, if I'm not careful and I'm not time boxing and doing all the strategies that I need to do as an adult with ADHD to like keep my time.

under control.

I can also go down rabbit holes on the internet.

I think they're different ones than the ones we worry about with teens.

But that doesn't mean I actually need that TikTok about how to organize my refrigerator like right now.

You know, like if my book is due at the end of the day, or if I have another deadline, or if I have to go pick up my kid, like I probably shouldn't be watching that video right now.

So TikTok, YouTube, and Discord are big.

And Discord, again, it's a voice chat app that a lot of gamers use when they're on the game.

So if your kid is playing a game like Roblox or Minecraft and you hear them talking to other people and you hear voices in your home that are not the people who live in your house, they are possibly using Discord.

They also very well might be on a Google.

meet or using their phone with the speaker phone turned on.

But when kids are talking to other people,

that don't live in their home and you can hear their voices, like that's what's going on.

They're mediating that contact in one of those ways probably.

And then

I mentioned Reddit.

Reddit is kind of this like online curative discussion forum.

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