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

We're so very gendered in our culture.

We everything takes on meaning for what we subtly and not so subtly expect girls to do, expect boys to do.

We get heavy messaging in media from our families.

We make a ton of assumptions about gender.

And so we come by this confusion about this stuff, honestly, because it's sort of the water we swim in, I say, right?

Like when we're gonna have a baby, one of the first questions people always ask is, What are you having?

And then we make a whole bunch of assumptions about what you'll get to do in life with this little being because of their gender and what they need because of their gender.

And so when kids come out or go through phases or, you know, as as children coming out, meaning when they start

Start to demonstrate

behaviors that are expansive, it gets parents' attention.

We notice it and other kids notice it and other people notice it too.

So and I it's important to say it doesn't always mean you'll be on a journey that involves sexual orientation or or gender identity, but but it might be.

And so we need to talk about that too.

You know, there's more and more research that really does say that gender identity is another example of neurodiversity.

There are theories about it.

There and nobody we're still piecing things together and figuring out exactly what it is, but we do know gender identity is not a choice.

Expression is how you show people the world your gender.

Like I could tomorrow go out in sweatpants and a baseball hat and I'm squarely identify as female and feel female and everything like that.

Lines up for me, but tomorrow I could choose to behave in ways that kind of buck those norms a little bit, right?

And I can I can make a choice to present as more masculine.

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