TPP 028: Understanding and Combatting Negative Stigmas Associated with Neurological Differences
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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7 chapters
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Why do many parents avoid getting a diagnosis for their child?
First of all, parents are less likely to even want to get a diagnosis in the first place because it's like, that's too scary. What if I don't even want to hear that information? And then they can't reach out for support because they feel like somebody will judge them. And they can't find the other people who are facing this struggle. I remember The week after the Canadian edition of my book coming out, I got tons of Facebook messages from people in my own life who said, oh yeah, we were dealing with that too. And I was just like smacking my forehead thinking, why were we all in silos thinking it was just our family?
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber, and today's episode features a conversation with Anne Douglas, author of the book, Parenting Through the Storm, Find Help, Hope, and Strength When Your Child Has Psychological Problems. As you'll hear from our conversation, Anne has a lot of experience in the world of differently wired children as she's raised four of her own while also being differently wired herself. In addition to wanting to give parents tools they can use to make their lives easier, Anne is passionate about changing the experience for differently wired people, especially when it comes to recognizing and combating the many negative stigmas that exist.
I wanted to talk with Anne about what labels and stigmas do to our kids, when to talk to our kids about their diagnoses, and find out what she's learned through parenting her own unique kids. I found our conversation super interesting. I hope you do too. Thanks for listening to the Tilt Parenting Podcast. To learn more about Tilt, visit www.tiltparenting.com. Hello, everyone. It's Debbie Reber with the Tilt Parenting Podcast. And today I am happy to be speaking with author, content creator, speaker, and mentor, Anne Douglas. So welcome to the show, Anne. Oh, I'm so happy to be here, Debbie. Well, we are happy to have you here. And you and I had talked prior to recording this podcast. And I think we realized there were so many different topics we could talk about.
But we decided to focus this episode on the theme of stigma. And we're going to talk about stigma. and specifically the negative stigmas that are attached to many ways of being differently wired. Before we get into that, though, I would love if you could just take a few minutes to tell us about your own journey of raising not one, not two, not three, but four, impressive, four differently wired kids. So could you tell us a little bit about your kids and what your path was like and also just how they're doing
now? For sure. Yeah. It's funny when I think back to the time that when things were sort of really, really difficult, this was around 2003. I remember thinking at that time, how are we going to get through this? Like I was feeling overwhelmed, the kids are feeling overwhelmed. It was just a really, really difficult place to be. So I just think it's really important for people to know that if you're feeling that way, things can get so much better, much better than you would ever, ever think possible when things are really, bad so just to give a snapshot of what was going on at that time this was like I say around 2003 and my daughter Julie was in grade 10 and she was going through a really dark and angry phase just a couple of years earlier she had overdosed on extra strength Tylenol came dangerously close to taking her life and
And so we as her parents were petrified, were off balance. And she was just really struggling. I mean, I sort of feel like if there was any kind of like after school special TV kind of topic that was ever done, I think Julie lived it during that time period. So it was just a really hard time for all of us and then at the same time she also had an eating disorder she was dabbling in drugs like everything was going on and then Scott who is a year and a half younger than her he was going through a hard time with ADHD and at that point there was not
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Why do many parents avoid getting a diagnosis for their child?
0:00–5:59
2
What was Anne Douglas’s family experience raising four differently‑wired children?
5:59–10:57
3
How do negative stigmas form around neurological differences and what impact do they have?
10:57–16:54
4
What strategies can parents use to combat stigma and find supportive communities?
16:54–24:19
5
When and how should parents talk to their kids about a diagnosis?
24:19–30:20
6
How can children themselves help shatter negative stereotypes?
30:20–35:08
7
What resources, like Eye‑to‑Eye, help children own their neurodiversity?
35:08–37:17
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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