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

animals to feel much more comfortable with animals than people.

Dolls.

Because they're learning social play through play with dolls, where where boys maybe aren't trying to do that.

Whereas with boys, you know, I can think of a two year old I work well, I didn't work with him when he was two, but a story his mom told me of when he was two that she couldn't get him to soothe or fall asleep at night unless she read to him from a medical textbook.

Right.

And so with boys, we often see this like, I am interested in Middle Eastern history from the eighteen hundreds to the eighteen forties.

And so they tend to be maybe a little more specific or a little odd.

Although we do see a lot of sort of quote unquote normal interests like dinosaurs and Minecraft.

Interestingly, what we find with girls also is that they tend to be drawn to like the theater because that's where they learn how to show emotions.

I know it's so fascinating.

So I feel like that happens a lot.

And also another piece with girls is that typically when with boys on the spectrum, they'll come in and say, I don't have any friends.

Or they'll say, I'm friends with everybody, everybody likes me, because there's that lack of self-awareness that maybe kids don't like them.

And with girls, girls are, I think, are a little more forgiving of sort of quirkiness.

And usually girls on the spectrum have one friend.

or a best friend who shares their interests.

And so I'll have parents come into me and say, well, well, my kid can't be autistic because she has a friend.

And I'm like, what well, autism is a spectrum.

Lots of people with autism have friends.

Lots of people don't.

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