Melissa Neff
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1,584 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2017
last heard Dec 2022
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If you're gonna parent in a traditional way, in the sense of my kids gonna go to public school, my kids gonna, you know, go to Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts, my kids gonna be on the sports team or on the robotics team and kind of be more in that mainstream world, I think a diagnosis really helps because getting something like an IEP with an educational diagnosis of autism or ADHD would help.
The teachers to understand what they're seeing, to understand, okay, this kid is not just loud and annoying, he literally can't stop moving his body.
So let's accommodate him by allowing him to stand up during class or allowing him to sit on a little bouncy ball or allowing him to touch a little fidget toy.
A lot of times, teachers who I think are so undervalued and underpaid and have the
Hardest job, almost the hardest job there is, second to parenting, they don't know what they're seeing.
And it's easy for them to conclude, especially if they're burned out, that this kid is just trying to push their buttons.
And a lot of the times, differently wired kids just don't learn in the same ways.
So if you're trying to get an IEP, you want to have, you have to have an autism diagnosis or an ADHD diagnosis.
If you want to know what kind of treatment to
do let's say you're doing talk therapy with somebody who's on the spectrum and that might be great for them because they can come in and talk about dinosaurs for 45 minutes but they may actually really be needing needing to learn social skills.
So identifying what it is can help you figure out what to do about it.
I also would say specific to children and adults on the spectrum because I am also getting
an influx in my practice of adults because as Asperger's becomes more prominent in the media, on T V shows, on the news, people are starting to go, Oh my gosh.
I'm fifty six years old and this is me.
Sometimes I think, especially with people on the spectrum, there is this desire for knowledge, this desire to categorize things, and there is this real relief in knowing I'm not just wacky and quirky.
I am this and I belong to this group.
And my whole life I never belonged to a group.
And so now I get to call myself an Aspie.
And and and I love that term because it's so positive.
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