Liz Angoff

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 429: Dr. Liz Angoff on Best Practices for Talking with Kids About Diagnoses · 18 Feb 2025 podcast

And so I think you might be frustrated because there's so many steps to math this year.

Do you agree?

So now we've taken the child's lived experience and we're explaining this complex concept called working memory, but in the child's words.

Now we know your highways, we know your construction zones, and I can say, you know, it turns out that you are not alone.

There are lots of people in the world that I learned about that have highways just like yours, who are creative and passionate with big vocabularies, who love stories, and who have the same construction zones as you, who struggle to remember lots of steps, which can make math really frustrating.

And we call these brains ADHD brains.

ADHD means that your brain is built in a way that makes you creative and passionate, but it can make it really hard to remember lots of steps.

So we're defining the diagnosis using the child's words, using their lived experience and helping them to understand what it means for them right now.

We don't have to go into the diagnostic criteria.

We don't have to talk about what it's going to mean when they're 13.

We can talk about what it means right now when you're eight years old in the third grade.

And this is your lived experience.

And now we can introduce them to other people that are in the world.

Simone Biles and Trevor Noah has been coming up a lot.

And you know, all these people who have a similar brain to our children and who have been really successful in the world because of, not in spite of, the way that their brain works differently.

I think that the idea that the child is in charge of their own information is a really important thing to go in with.

So it can come up with my teenagers because I come in with a really positive view and excitement around discovering how their brain works, but they're not always with me on the same page.

And so meeting the child where they're at, I think is really, really critical.

And validating and recognizing that while we know that there is nothing wrong with having this kind of brain, it is a difference and it's gonna be really helpful for them in understanding where they're going with their life and their career and what the right environment's gonna be.

There are real world obstacles that are out there that we also need to help support them with.

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