Ep. 76: How We Can Do Better For Autistic Kids
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What sparked the conversation about autistic kids' emotional wellbeing?
What's up everyone and welcome to Making the Shift for Autistic Kids.
We're an SLP couple from California with four boys.
And we're here every week to bring you neuro-affirming
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Hello everyone. Welcome to Making the Shift. We are so happy to be here with you.
We absolutely are. As you can see, I am out of Jesse's office and in my office, um live from work in my work classroom. So um I'm excited to be here. We have a great topic that Jesse's gonna share with us.
Yeah, today we are talking about something that's so, so important and very sadly and unfortunately all too often dismissed. And that is how we can prioritize the mental health and emotional well-being of our autistic kids. And I'm also like so pregnant and hormonal. I told Chr um Chris like I'm so scared of crying. I cried so I probably already cried three times today. Okay. Um, but this topic, it just really hits close to home. And what inspired this topic was this book review that came in. I know a lot of you guys have already read my new book called Ready Set Connect, kind of gives you a new way of thinking about working with autistic kids and building communication. And I've just been getting these reviews coming in, but this review came in over the weekend from a parent who has a n a nine-year-old son, and she said that it's just been like nine years of dysregulation and
Um, he gets he's like continuously getting kicked out of his schools that he's in and This year he threatened to take his own life several times and Just how sad do you have to be at nine years old to not wanna live? And Um that just I I think it was more like, I mean, there is so much in that that is so sad and so um horrible. And yet I'm so grateful for parents who are willing to open up and share those stories because she said that, you know, after reading my book, and then she went and got Chris's assessment and like the combination of the two. She said she's seen more growth in her child and this summer than she has in his whole life and that she was able to connect with him emotionally for the first time ever and
So I'm I'm so grateful that, you know these resources and trainings are making that kind of an impact at the end of the day, but it's the are hard stories to hear.
Yeah, absolutely. And working in the schools, I've Worked with, you know, teens for quite some time now, you know, in the greater part of two decades and Um, there have been times too where I've worked with some students that have had Um, that feeling of not fitting in or being like others and it turning into or not getting needs met, you know. And then as the years move on it. Leads into You know, depression and in And other thoughts and Um and we and we see those We see those rates being increased, you know, within
We know that, you know, depression rates are high in the autistic community um suicide, high, like all these things that are so scary and You know, this is why we're trying to make a change, is because these are people's lives that we are dealing with here. And it's not just about, you know, choosing a therapy approach. It's about choosing a therapy approach that's going to be affirming for the child and make the child feel loved and accepted. And, you know, as I was thinking about this show topic, I was just thinking about How we constantly say no better, do better, because we're all learning and we've all made mistakes. And now that we know better, we're trying to do better. And um, you know, it's something Chris and I say a lot, and we don't want to like shame people for their past mistakes just like we have our own.
But I'm like, at what point do we sit and we stop and we say, okay, now we know better. How can we do better? And I think it's just things like we know that not accepting kids for who they are is going to be ha bad for their mental health. We know that Trying to make them into people that they're not or make them not feel accepted and loved is bad for their mental health. So at what point do we like stop saying no better and we just focus on the doing better?
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