Eileen Devine
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327 appearances
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first heard Nov 2019
last heard Nov 2019
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having the workplace environment understand that they're very hard workers and they're very good listeners, but they need, for example, um, reminders about, you know, four and five step sequences.
Um, if it's gonna be more than one or two, then they might get lost.
That they can understand um they want to do what's right, but maybe they need written instructions along with the verbal instructions, all of that kind of stuff.
Yeah, that's a great question.
So I think
I if I were to say what kind of would set that population of parents apart
From um, you know, the bioparents that I work with, there's a few layers that um we eventually get to in one way or another that are super common themes with all of them.
One is this idea of grief and loss, right?
It applies, I think, to many parents who are parenting kids who who have neurobehavioral conditions, but
With the adoptive parents, many of them have gone through their own
significant grief and loss trying to start a family before they ever enter into the adoption process.
Some of them have um gone through significant heartache throughout the adoption process, having maybe adoptions fall through, that sort of thing, getting their hopes up, it not happening.
And then
Um, most of the parents that I've worked with have no indication that their child that they've adopted has
um such significant, you know, challenges that will need a um different level of parenting that maybe they imagined having in their experience.
And so I think those additional layers of loss and grief, kind of one on top of another, is really profound.
And and when we're talking about
understanding their child in this different way, like they are who they are and this is how their brain works and this is how it works differently and what that means for them, especially if you think of the life trajectory and what that might look like, then that always comes up.
And we often see, and again I think this is this is universal, we see it as anger and resentment and frustration and all of those kinds of things and or fear.
And I always say, always underneath there.
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