Julie Lythcott-Haims

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 248: Julie Lythcott-Haims Talks About Her New book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult · 30 Mar 2021 podcast

But I have done the work as an author to try to be, you know, very, very deliberate in thinking about

what stories I will include when I'm illustrating a point through someone else's lived experience, which I do over 30 times in this book, I wanted those folks in the collective to be an incredibly diverse group.

And they are, including neurodivergence and including sexual orientation, including the gender spectrum, including racial classifications, but also including socioeconomic class and the degree to which

Someone is educated or not and where they live in the country and if they're an immigrant and if they are dealing with infertility or if they've been in the military or if they're a Hindu or if they're estranged from their parents.

I mean, there's just this I'm just touching on a handful of things that I hope give you a sense of where this book of how inclusive this book aims to be.

I will also say that just in a more crafty manner when it comes to the craft of writing.

So I just spoke to the structure of the book, whose stories I chose to put in there.

But my own narrative language, the way I choose to construct my sentences was time and time and time again,

an effort to ensure I'm not, you know, I don't use he to refer to all people.

I don't even use he or she to refer to all people because I know that the gender spectrum is a spectrum, not a binary.

And I will fight that battle, you know, as long as I'm an author that I will not make gendered assumptions.

I try to be inclusive of,

I don't just sort of have a chapter on mental health issues.

I refer throughout the book, like, if you are anxious, this thing I'm advising may be hard for you.

So I'm honoring that truth while still giving the broader set of advice that may be more applicable to those who don't have anxiety.

So those are just examples of how I'm trying to show up on the page in a way that is respectful of all humans.

I appreciate your noticing that and reflecting upon it.

It is certainly one of my main goals in this book is to achieve that outcome.

I think many people, though, Debbie, will totally overlook that.

The people for whom the world has always been constructed, the neurotypical people, the people without mental health challenges, the people who are straight, the people who are middle class, the people who are white.

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