Devorah Heitner

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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

I mean, I am a little biased.

I'm a little anti-Reddit, I guess.

I'm a little biased.

Like, I don't find it to be often a very positive place.

I think one thing that we see on the internet is when you have the opportunity to be anonymous, you don't see people behaving in ways where they want to be accountable for.

And this is something I tell kids when I go to schools and do workshops with students, I talk to them, like thankfully, this app.

Is long, long gone.

I don't think Ask FM is popular anymore, but like seven to ten years ago, there was an app, Ask FM.

That was all about teenagers connecting anonymously and just being cruel to one another, basically, because when you remove the accountability of attaching your name to your actions, a huge motivation for that can be unkindness.

Now, there are people for whom that be begets altruism.

We all know the anonymous, huge charitable gift is an example of altruism that's anonymous.

But ninety nine percent of the time when people do not want their name or likeness attached to their actions, it is because they are up to no good.

And I think as parents, we really don't want our kids to be in places where people are anonymous.

So even though there are huge limitations to what's sort of like nice about Instagram or

Facebook or other places, I think the fact that so often our likeness and our name are is attached to our behavior is something of a checks and balances against being awful.

So Reddit and Quora, which are online conversations that are chat based.

Where people can ask questions anonymously and you know, there's like an ask me anything on Reddit and people be like, Ask me anything.

And again, some of those are really positive.

Ask me anything about having a cognitively disabled sibling.

Ask me anything about growing up in deaf culture, ask me anything about living in Brooklyn.

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