Kate McNulty

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 256: Autistic Therapist Kate McNulty on Neurodiverse Relationships · 22 Jun 2021 podcast

I think of both my children and so many young people as experiential learners.

Like the only way they're really going to get it is when they get a chance to have the experience themselves.

Me talking about it or giving them a book to read, it's just not going to hit the mark.

So helping kids have a series of experiences and experiments with friendships or dealing with disappointment or frustration along the way in their lives is

is the building blocks we need for them so that when they reach adulthood, they can handle themselves capably.

And one sad thing we know about autistic people is they're quite vulnerable to sexual exploitation and abuse.

So we want to help protect kids with skills and awareness about how to assess who is a trustworthy person.

And, you know, that starts when they're like six or seven, right?

We don't do that.

We don't deal with that when they're 16 or 17.

We need to start helping them differentiate.

How do we know if people are reliable?

How do we know if we should let somebody in our inner circle or count on them to show up for our birthday party or whatever it may be, you know?

We need to help our kids develop those skills.

And really the gift of autism is also though pattern recognition and having excellent observational skills and being able to talk with a trusted adult, whether it's you or a counselor, to have a confidant to run their perceptions by and get some feedback on like, when I had hurt feelings from this friend, how could I have handled that?

How do I deal with it if someone's bullying me or teasing me in a mean way?

So the roots of this begin when kids are quite young, that we want to help them lay the foundation for being able to size other people up and make reasonable judgments about people so that they don't end up in troubled relationships or vulnerable situations without the skills to handle it.

So for my kids, for example, that meant...

having personal cell phones was still quite new when my kids were young, but I got them phones as soon as I thought they could handle having a phone because it really gave them a chance to move about in the world, but be accountable to me.

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