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Parenting Neurodivergent Teens and Young Adults

Notes from Dr. Ed Callahan on raising a neurodivergent 14-to-25-year-old toward a successful, independent adulthood — with less conflict, distress, and resistance.

Most of what you will read here started in a room full of parents. Twice a week I sit with families working through exactly what you are working through, and these posts are what comes out of those conversations.

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A mother I work with sat down and watched a movie her teenage son had picked. She did not love the movie. It glamorized people who take what they want, and everything in her wanted to say so.

She did not say so. Instead she asked him about it. What is happening here. Why does that character do that...

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