Dr. Melanie Hayes
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704 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2019
last heard Feb 2022
Dr. Melanie Hayes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's a societal pressure to make your child conform so that they can fit in, they can have friends, they can be successful at school.
And so all of us are the most well-meaning parents in the world put that pressure on our kids early on, and we don't even realize we're doing it because we're not fully aware ourselves of what those societal pressures are.
And a lot of times it takes your kid to just stop functioning.
or to be a major behavior problem or, you know, have deep depression or something like that before we go, hey, wait a minute.
What is the quality of our child's life right now and what can we do to make it different?
So, you know, like you, I'm a mom who uh was beginning my work based on the needs of my children.
And then it just has grown and blossomed into being an activist for the two E community and um somewhat now expanding into the autistic community.
Uh my son is diagnosed, but he doesn't really identify so much as that.
His identity is more two E.
Which makes sense 'cause that's been my work.
an activism for a twice exceptional community for a long time.
But as as my realm of influence has increased, I've really wanted people to be proud of being twice exceptional and to embrace that culture.
And I really have moved into a definite area of activism and now activism for autistic people who are twice exceptional.
So it's really exciting work.
It's a pleasure to be an ally to the aut autistic community and and to uh try to help people better understand the needs of two E people who also have autism.
Yeah.
It feels great.
You know, I I started out our last podcast was really around helping people because I recognize that not everybody can pull their kids out of public school.
And so, you know, we wanted to provide some sort of support around that.
But but the more I get into the working with these communities and the seeing the people, it it reminds me, you know, there's a
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