Eileen Devine
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first heard Nov 2019
last heard Nov 2019
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on what you would consider a typical trajectory was very different than what my son's had been and what it was at that time and
And very long story short, um she lives with significant neurobehavioral challenges that when I first started figuring that out as a parent, I thought
You know, as a social worker, as a therapist, like, no problem, I'll figure this out.
We can handle whatever's coming our way.
And we learned very quickly that we we really couldn't on our own.
We were missing a lot of information that we needed.
Um, didn't know we were missing it at the time.
What we knew at the time were that was that we were becoming increasingly scared about the fact that all these very good parenting techniques that we're working
wonderfully with our son just weren't working with her.
Um so once I figured that out, and I can talk a little bit later about what that looked like if that's helpful, but once I figured out how to parent her differently because her brain works so differently than what we would consider neurotypical in our society, um I thought, well where
Where are my people?
Where are the people who are walking alongside parents in the same situation helping them get this information that they're missing so they know that that you know there are actually things that you can do, there are things that work in terms of supporting these kids and parenting, it just looks really, really different than those very tried and true parenting techniques that we're all
raised with ourselves or brought you know, led to believe that that's that's kinda how you do it.
And so I'm honored to do this work with parents every day.
Um, I love bringing these parents together so that they can find each other and feel like they have a sense of community and that they're not alone in this experience.
Um so yeah, that's in a nutshell how I found myself.
in this really wonderful, wonderful work that I do.
That is a very accurate way to describe it.
We believe things happen for a reason and we were wonder it was wonderful to get that call, but yeah, a little shock in there as well.
So she's she's been a wonderful blessing and in in lots of different ways.
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