Laurie Berkner

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 204: Musician Laurie Berkner on Inclusivity & Connecting with Differently Wired Kids · 13 Apr 2020 podcast

One is that I feel like I get so much, but I also don't ever want to be the person who makes a kid feel like that.

I'm sure I have without meaning to, but I don't want to consciously ever do that.

So maybe I'm just trying to make up for how I felt when I was a kid.

Well, it's that's another thing that's sort of like a circle to me.

So before I ever did kids music, it's funny, I actually worked with autistic adults, not that I was trained or taught to do anything.

It was just, it was a job that I, I don't even know,

how I got it.

But I used to work at a place called Amic in Manhattan, like the year after I was, I graduated from college right before I started doing preschool music.

And, um, there was something that drew me to, I just, I saw an ad for it and I applied for the job and I got it.

And I used to bring my guitar in and sing.

And there was something that really drew me to wanting to work with adults with autism.

And, um,

I found myself like sometimes writing songs about them and just also having that same sense of it's, it's not just magic.

It's like wondering how does this person I am sitting with see what is going on or experience what is going on differently from me.

And I think there was just something so like magnetic about that for me for some reason.

So anyway, I just remember I did that and then I,

I never really, I didn't think about it so much.

I kind of moved on to doing the preschool music.

And then I started noticing that kids of all kinds of different abilities, but actually, actually very prominently kids on the autism spectrum were responding to my music in ways that I did not expect or understand, frankly.

Like, I'm not sure that I understand why

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