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What amazing titles Monty and The Worm have!! 🙌🏻👏🏻

With over 50 inclusive titles in our Celebrating Neurodiversity collection, Monty and the Worm has something for all neurodivergent kids and young adults. Check us out! www.montyandtheworm.com

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Perfect book to read on IDAHOBIT. My shadow is Purple by is such a clever and heartwarming book that promotes inclusion, diversity and being who you are. It’s one of my favourites 🥰

IDAHOBIT is the anniversary of May 17, 1990, when the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from the Classification of Diseases.

The first IDAHOBIT was held in 2005 and is today acknowledged by millions of people globally. While IDAHOBIT has evolved over these years, the purpose remains the same - celebrate the progress we have made while also raising awareness for the discrimination that LGBTQIA+ people still face today.

The strengths of ADHD are pretty cool ☀️

There are so many amazing positives to ADHD!

We often find ourselves focusing on the tricky bits in order to gain help and support, but we are flipping this one on it's head and we are celebrating the positives today (and most days!).

🌈🌈🌈 LOOK AT ALL THESE POSITIVES! 🌈🌈🌈

***What could you add? ***

We are going to be learning more about ADHD (the tricky and the positive) in our webinar in a few weeks... You're welcome to join us.

I'm so grateful to everyone who is doing the work to learn about neurodiversity.

It was such a pleasure presenting my webinar to you the other night. Talking about neurodiversity-affirming practice is my happy place. Could you tell?

For anyone who missed it and wants to catch the recording, here's the link.

https://forms.office.com/r/JFV4fDmixU

I'm excited.
I can't wait to see the changes that we can make.

Em 🌈🌈🌈

I wrote a post about pen liscences not being inclusive on tik tok and I have been so shocked with some of the responses 😱

What do you think about pen licences??

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Every day!

Edit: Executive dysfunction is a part of ADHD, it's at it's core. This is an ADHD page. I share things based on my lived experience and diagnosis. The amount of times I've heard people say "everyone does that" is part of the stigma we face everyday. The artist of this meme whom I've spoken with is also ADHD. This is an ADHD meme.

If you think everyone does this everyday, I've got news for you... (go see a Dr).

Artist: instagram.com/gingerartmagic

It's all too easy in the busyness of today's world to lose sight of the importance of developmental readiness. How often have we thrust our kids prematurely into situations beyond their capacity? I can remember many times from the gymnasium full of bouncy castles that my daughter found overwhelming and overstimulating, to trying to do grocery shopping after work and picking them up from preschool.

We live and learn, especially when we pay attention to what doesn't work and what our kids tell us through their emotions and behaviour. When we listen in on a developmental level we honour the rhythms of childhood and growth, and safeguard their well-being.

They are going to have a label either way 💁🏼‍♀️

I get long-winded. You’ve been reading my posts this month; you know this. 😉

This one, shockingly, doesn’t require me to be long-winded at all.

When should parents tell their kids they’re Autistic?

-Is the parent able to speak about it with an emphasis on the neutral and positive? (i.e., have they had time to get to understand what the diagnosis means, themselves, and processed their own emotions, and come to accept their child as they are authentically?)

-Is the parent also able to acknowledge negatives if expressed by their child and empathize with them without spiraling?

That’s it. That’s when you should tell them.

If you want some specifics, like “how” and “in what language” and other suggestions, I have to point back to Chris at Not Weird who I’ve been quoting from all month long. (Remember that he is autistic himself, although diagnosed as an adult, so he can really speak to this from personal experience!) I'll put that source in the comments.

I’ve included this image as well because it’s the most common reason that I hear people saying that they don’t want to tell their child they’re autistic. It has a picture of a crowd of people all saying negative words, like “naughty, lazy, violent, disruptive, antisocial, oversensitive, weird, challenging, crazy, learning difficulties, loner”. And then it has a parent with a child, the parent saying, “I won’t seek an autism diagnosis. I don’t want my child to have a label.” The bottom of the picture says one way or another, autistic people often get labelled. At least make it a label that’s accurate, and allows access to help and support.

The picture is specific to getting a diagnosis, but not telling your child the diagnosis has the same effects. People will tell them “who they are” regardless of whether you actually tell them or not. They will internalize descriptors that society places on them. But if they can come to know themselves and understand themselves authentically instead, then they’re prepared to be able to self-advocate instead of internalizing shame and disappointment in themselves for being different.

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