Melissa Neff

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 060a: A Deep Dive Into Assessments, Diagnoses, and Labels, with Melissa Neff, PhD · 2 Dec 2022 podcast

It's so affirming, and people love to call themselves that.

And so, my sense, especially with people on the spectrum, especially as they get older, there's this relief of, oh my gosh, that's what it is.

That's why I've never known how to laugh at a joke that I don't find funny.

That's why I don't understand what these kids are talking about when they're making metaphors or being sarcastic.

And I think there's

So I think there's a relief sometimes in the diagnosis.

know.

Uh huh.

And he was probably like, Duh, I know that.

I knew I had superpowers.

Exactly.

I like to say that people with autism are saving the planet because I really take that perspective.

I don't have you read NeuroTribes?

embarrassed to say that I have it and my son has read it and I haven't gotten

Through it.

Yes.

It's so great.

I'm gonna, I know you're so busy.

I'm gonna just encourage you to read it because really sort of the whole point of that book is showing, you know, these are genes that have um survived throughout history.

And there are ways in which we created environments where people with autism could thrive instead of be outcast.

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