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

So I think understanding and holding space for that is really, really important.

With my teenagers, it becomes even more critical that I'm really using their language and their lived experience.

I had one child who's autistic, but very much did not want anything to do with that label, but was saying just how isolated and alone he felt.

And so we were talking about, you know, what we've learned about.

About how his brain works that might help us understand why it's been hard for him to find his people.

And that we understand that his brain works in this different way that we call autism.

But this is something that he can kind of hold and process and figure out what he wants to do with that.

In the meantime, we wanna help you with the loneliness problem, that we wanna help make sure that you're connected.

And it doesn't mean you have to go out.

And join a bunch of

Autism pride groups that might not be where you're at.

But I do want to help you to find some places where other kids have similar interests to you that are places where you might be able to connect with folks in the way that you want to connect with them.

And we did learn that your brain connects with people in different ways.

And so we're gonna use that information to help you find community.

But

I'm not trying to force that identity on a child.

I'm working with where they are at and letting them know that it's their choice about what they want to do with the diagnostic information, but we want to help them with the things that that are challenging for them.

I'll add just real quick that sometimes I find a lot of success with teenagers with just throwing the definition of the diagnosis under the bus.

There's a bunch of, you know, old fogies who sat in a room and decided what all these things mean, but we've learned a lot about brains since then.

And our understanding has evolved.

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