Meryl Alper
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first heard Jan 2024
last heard Jan 2024
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But it hadn't really been given the same
you know, energy and resources as you know typically developing kids and trying to understand their successes and struggles growing up in the digital age.
So in terms of personal connections, you know, I I don't identify as being neurodivergent.
I'm not like the mom or a sibling of neuro my mom, but not a not I know of at this point of neurodivergent kids.
But to me it's about inclusion more broadly and making inclusion more inclusive, but not just for inclusion's sake.
Cause I think also studying
These children's experiences make this field of media and technology even better.
Yeah, so while I don't have the same personal experiences in terms of parenting, I certainly have had through the conversations that I had during my TIS dissertation, and then just anybody that I know that I had mentioned talking about this always has stories for me if they themselves are a parent too.
And as somebody who who had read, you know, all of this and knows and done research on neurotypical kids.
Knowing that there's bound to be this seed of okay, there's some shared experiences.
It's not everything that autistic or neurodivergent kids are doing with media and technology that's going to be radically different.
Well, everybody's watching TV.
That's also one of these myths I think people don't realize.
You talk about social media, digital media.
TV is still across the board, the top time spent with media is television.
Television takes different forms, but still, number one.
Everybody's watching YouTube, not everybody is on TikTok or Snapchat, but increasing numbers are.
So I was really, you know, motivated and drawn to the fact that we need to really separate things out.
If there are these similarities, what are the differences?
And what do those differences stem from?
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