PCP Guides: supporting neurodivergent kids - nurturing neurodiversity
5/3/20261 hr 20 min
In this final reflection episode of supporting neurodivergent kids we explore how we can true nurture the kids we love and care for. We explore safety, masking, communication and evidence-based care along with some incorrect and unhealthy beliefs about neurodivergence. To finish this PCP Guides series we will be running a live Q&A via out Patreon in the coming weeks. Please join that community to send in questions and we can't wait to diver deeper into how we can all support neurodivergent kids.
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First 90 secondsBilly· Host0:01
Hello, beautiful PCP community. It's Billy here, and this is our final PCP guide episode for supporting neurodivergent kids. Uh, in it we'll be exploring nurturing neurodiversity and looking back at that episode and topic, focusing on The Green Mile, the beautiful, amazing movie that that is, wh- which is certainly not perfect, um, and some of the challenges that exist for individuals in this community who are neurodivergent themselves and our cultural beliefs around that. Remembering that a community is neurodiverse, an individual is neurodivergent. Um, neurodiversity really speaks to, um, the range of ways that a community functions in terms of the way that they, uh, perceive, interpret, and process the world. Um, I think I may have said it wrong once in or twice or however many times in this episode, which is probably more to the single take that we do and maybe, uh, some of my, my early education and the quality of that. The, um, episode is powerful. The scene gets me again every single time. Um, we talk about how important safety is for these children and how it can be challenging to realize that they are not safe because our bias is from a neurotypical perspective that this should be fine for you. And people