About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and insights of parenting neurodivergent children, featuring a guest who shares his personal experiences with ADHD and autism diagnoses in his family.

Have you ever looked back at the parent you were before you understood your child's neurodivergence and felt a quiet, heavy wave of regret? Not because you were a bad parent, but because you just didn't have the information you needed yet. In this week's episode of the ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast , we’re doing something a little different! I want to share an episode of another podcast (from Understood.org) with you called Everyone Gets a Juice Box , and I want to share it with you as I know so many of you not only have ADHD, but are also raising kids who are neurodivergent. In this episode, Jessica is joined by Dion Chavis. A few years ago, Dion's son was diagnosed with autism, his teenage daughter received an ADHD diagnosis, and shortly after, in his early 40s, Dion was diagnosed with ADHD himself. Instead of looking away, he looked back with honesty, compassion, and a willingness to do things differently. In this episode, we explore: Why a late diagnosis so often sends us back through our children's childhoods and why that grief is valid The difference between parenting from selfishness and parenting from selflessness, and how awareness changes everything Why social…

People in this episode

Host: Kate Moryoussef

Guest: Dion Chavis

Topics covered

• parenting neurodivergent children
• ADHD
• autism
• late diagnosis
• social connection
• Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
• normalizing conversations about diagnosis

Keywords

• neurodivergence
• parenting
• ADHD diagnosis
• autism
• Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
• social connection
• selflessness
• therapy
• medication

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Understood.org, ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

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