Kristy Forbes

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1,527 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2019 last heard Feb 2025

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collective of families who are hitting crisis point because there's nobody out there to say to them, actually this isn't just autism.

there's more to it than this.

So they're not getting the support and the help that they need.

Um, trying to live a life that isn't aligned with being neurodivergent.

And

I mean it's really, really difficult for families not to be working toward normalizing their children because

Unfortunately, as a society.

This is what we do.

I mean many of our early intervention and therapies are geared toward.

having, say, an autistic child present as indistinguishable from their peers.

So our goals are typically set around teaching our children social skills to match neuronormative standards.

So there's little value placed on

The neurodivergent brain.

And there seems to be still more value placed on.

conforming and fitting in and getting along in the same way that everybody else does.

And the problem with this

Is that if this was working

then there wouldn't be so many families in crisis and there wouldn't be so many autistic adults burning out and ending up with

other co occurring conditions, mental illnesses and chronic health conditions.

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