The funny thing about figuring out youre neurodivergent is looking through your family and starting to notice youre definitely not the only one
This post got way more attention than I thought it would
Really interesting reading people talking about their neurodivergent family members
I’m a recently graduated therapist so I don’t have the most experience in this, but I can tell you. The amount of teens I see who I end up screening for ADHD/ASD & referring…I was originally taught to ask parents if they notice any eccentric, rigid, impulsive, or inattentive behaviors at home that are developmentally out of place.
Then later I realized I shouldn’t be asking the parents, because they usually don’t view those behaviors as any of those adjectives because they do the same sorts of things. So now every screening of a kid or teen also usually ends up becoming a screening of the parent(s) too.
And as someone who’s been diagnosed with ADHD for ten years (and probably has autism too), I have to be the weird messenger to these parent(s). Like, “yes, it is frustrating to procrastinate things you want to do and enjoy doing! However, the council has informed me that this is not a common and universal experience and is, in fact, A Symptom.”
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