Dr. Laura Anderson

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 108: Dr. Laura Anderson on Gender Noncomformity and Differently Wired Kids · 15 May 2018 podcast

One of the key takeaways that I taught to folks about with this work is that the really good news for parents is that if this is something your child is insistent, consistent, and persistent about, they're really clear and persistent about the fact that they have a need to behave in gender expansive ways or that they are not the gender that that they were or you believe they were based on their sex assigned at birth.

That parents are enormous protective factors.

Without parent support, and if parents are trying to change these key pieces of their kids' identity, again, out of out of understandable fear, if parents try to change it, then these kids really, really struggle.

thanks for having me.

Yeah, it's an honor.

I'm really excited actually to talk about the stuff.

It's close to my my heart and my head.

Excellent.

Sure.

So I am see, honestly, as far back as high school, I knew I wanted to be a psychologist who works with families.

And I am a child and family psychologist.

Almost twenty years now I've been licensed and I'm in licensed in two different states here in the US.

And I um but I've lived out of the country on several occasions.

And so this period of this intersection of psychology and living abroad

is one that really resonates with me.

Um, I love kids and families in any setting.

I've worked in schools for almost all of those 20 years with actually offices right on school campuses, but I've also done work in a range of other private practice and contract.

foster care and all all kinds of different things.

So I've seen kids in families in almost every place you can find them and I really love parenting support and just helping families thrive.

And so

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