Dr. Karen Wilson

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 320: Dr. Karen Wilson on How (and When) to Talk to Kids About Their Diagnoses · 28 Feb 2023 podcast

And so

By saying those things, I haven't given a diagnosis of a dyslexia, I haven't given a diagnosis of ADHD, but you're talking about what that looks like.

And what that does is it validates the child's experience.

It's like, that is exactly what's happening to me at school.

It's not that I don't care about what the teacher's saying.

I keep forgetting or I get distracted.

And that sharing of that information, that demystification, that child feedback.

can be very validating for that child who is having that struggle.

And what we found it's not that you're not smart.

You're actually very smart.

But this is harder for you.

And it's harder for you because your brain is wired differently, you think differently, and that's not only true for you, it's true for a lot of kids.

And you know, for for you reading is hard, but math is easy.

For other kids, math is hard and reading is easy.

For you

Remembering information is a piece of cake, but paying attention is harder.

And for some kids, paying attention is really easy, but they forget everything.

And so you're normalizing the experience of having strengths and weaknesses.

And then you also want to

Provide.

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