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

And it didn't happen this way.

And I'm so upset about the injustice of this not occurring.

I am

So upset that we didn't go down the third aisle of the grocery store because that's the way we always go.

Mm-hmm.

And sometimes that's what the tantrum's about.

And so that's different than you didn't buy me cookies in the grocery line, and I'm gonna be, you know, kind of a little you know what for five minutes, but it's gonna go away.

So there's this inconsolableness, I think, sometimes to the tantrums that has to do with that cognitive rigidity.

Yeah.

Also, I would say sensory, uh I think you can spot sensory processing issues pretty early as well.

You know, you you take one kid into the grocery store or you take one kid to a baseball game or a concert, and you know, if if you have the kid that's covering his ears and screaming and that's probably a good sign of sensory stuff.

You know, the other piece that I see a lot in sort of these younger kids, and this is really what I'm talking about right now is

really outside of what I'm doing in my practice, but just the things that I notice because this is kind of how my brain has become wired as I do this work.

There's often a lack of reciprocity that that I'll see very early on, even with milder kids on the spectrum where, you know, uh let's say there's a there's a family with a kid that's one and a half and a kid that's three and a half.

And if the differently wired child is three and a half,

I usually find that the one and a half year old is pretending to feed me food and is smiling when I smile.

And the three and a half year old is off doing his own thing.

And when the interaction occurs, it's really based on that kid's terms.

We're gonna play this, we're gonna do this, and they're not super interested in my facial expressions, what I wanna do.

Of course, kids wanna do what they wanna do.

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