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Noticing a Way Back
I have been struggling to find my way back to writing. Not as content, but as connection, an offering of community suspended in time, agnostic as to location and grounded in love. For months, I had…
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Family Life, Our Way
Parenting, caring and growing up in neurodivergent families, told honestly by the people living it.
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Here Together—December Call Details
I haven’t had anyone join me yet—will you be the first? In any case, I will be holding space for centering and connection the first three Fridays in December. I anticipate moving the call to another…
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What schools and parents need to understand about supporting Autistic and neurodivergent children
What schools and parents need to understand about supporting Autistic and neurodivergent children
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Here Together—November Call Details
The experiment continues! If your Friday could use a pocket of mindful reflection and compassionate connection, please join me! Read more
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Monotropism: A Poem
A poem about monotropism for children, young people, families and educators to open conversations about Autistic & ADHD experiences.
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Understanding the Double Empathy Problem: A Guide For Autistic People & Families
FREE Neuro-Affirming Communication & Sensory Passport + Training Support Autistic people through better understanding of communication, sensory needs & double empathy.
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Inclusion Needs Recognition, Not Erasure: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach
When headlines claim that autism and ADHD are “invented labels,” it’s more than rhetoric, it’s erasure. A explores why removing neurodiversity from education would harm the very children inclusion is…
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Navigating PANS/PANDAS & Neurodivergence
Our new PANS/PANDAS info-gathering templates help families, schools & clinicians understand the overlap between neurodivergence and PANS/PANDAS.
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Shared Flow: Turning Attention To Support Children Together
Discover Dinah Murray’s concept of co-tropicality—turning our attention together. Explore how joining Autistic children in their flow builds trust, co-regulation, and deep relational connection…
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Divergently Yours—Here Together
This post contains call details for the Here Together gatherings on 9/26, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, and 10/31. Please save the details to your calendar or bookmark this page for future reference.…
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Launching Divergently Yours—Here Together
This post details a new offering for paid subscribers. The first section describes the context and background of my intention in offering it and the second section provides more details on what to…
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Not Back to School
[Image description: Close-up of bright pink and blue crystal blooms growing on darker pink and lighter blue paper cut and arranged to resemble coral against a bright yellow background.] Not back to…
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Building Connections: Teachers Starting the Year with Pupils with PMLD
Connection comes first. Relationships, trust, & small shared moments are the real foundations of learning.
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Why PBS is Harmful for Autistic and Neurodivergent Young People
Exploring why and how Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) can harm Autistic people. #Neurodiversity #AutismAcceptance #PBS #DisabilityJustice
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From Autistic Realms to More Realms: Exploring Other Ways of Being
By Helen Edgar, Autistic Realms At the heart of everything I do is a belief that lived experience and Autistic lives matter. What if support for Autistic children began with listening to Autistic…
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Radical Resilience
The word resilience is often used as a weapon, especially against parents/ carers whose children are different, who may be neurodivergent and who are more likely to need accommodations in school to…
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Summer Rhythms for Autistic Parents & Carers: Low‑Demand Parenting, Managing Energy & Sensory Needs
A practical guide for Autistic parents and carers to support energy flow, sensory regulation, and family balance through the summer holidays
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I Don’t Know How to Do This
Hello—Writing from transition-land where old routines have fallen apart and new ones have yet to take hold. Hoping to find the rhythm that will allow me to reach out with more regularity, giving…
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Field Notes on Frustration
Sometimes things don’t work the way you think they should. Recently, I have found myself saying this to my children as they are learning, in shuffles and leaps, to navigate their newly created…
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Warm Wishes for the New Year
Dear beautiful reader, I am thinking of you today with a full heart. Yes, you that I have known for decades, you who are reading my words for the first time, and all others in between. I do not take…
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Embracing Complexity
[Image description: Abstract watercolor painting by a child with swaths of blue, gray, brown, and green with some black marker scribbles along the left side.] “I am a person who gets overwhelmed by…
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Finding My Pace
At various points this summer, I had been looking ahead to the fall. Having only one child at home rather than summer’s three, I imagined that I would be able to finally find time to move forward on…
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Imperfect Advocate
My kids started back to school this month, two to the small independent early education school that our family joined last year and one homeschooling after having withdrawn from kindergarten in the…
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Kids’ Hotel Dance Party
Late on day two of our recent 9-day cross country adventure, I stood in a hotel lobby with the three kids as my husband was parking the car. I was waiting for the front desk attendant to finish her…