ADHD & Autism Therapy Service Suffolk

08/05/2024

For anyone who wants to know more about how to support Charlie or others with Tourette’s, Tourettes Action do a free online training. It is a thorough in depth training for those supporting a child or adult with Tourette’s.

It is an 1.5hour training and can be used as CPD hours and if you pass you can apply for a certificate.

It’s free, what have you got to lose! Please also spread this far and wide so that more and more people become aware of Tourette’s and the different types of motor and vocal tics and individual can have.

Tourette Syndrome is an inherited, neurological condition, the key features of which are tics, involuntary and uncontrollable sounds and movements. TS is a complex condition and covers a wide spectrum of symptoms. This eLearning module will help users understand and learn more about Tourette Syndrom...

19/01/2024

As adults, we are actually afforded a whole lot more choice than children.

We have more autonomy over our lives.
We get to decide.
We get to accommodate.
We get to choose when, with who, and for how long.
We get to leave when it’s too much.

We often hear people say that we need to stop accommodating our neurodivergent kids because they need to learn to survive in the ‘real world’.

I disagree.

It doesn’t make sense to be cruel to our kids so they get used to cruelty.
They should never have to get used to that. They should never think it’s normal and acceptable.

It doesn’t make sense to teach our neurodivergent kids that their natural existence is unacceptable or problematic. We deserve to exist authentically and know that our neurodivergent brains are not inferior to neurotypical ones.

Rather than crushing us into a neurotypical box (which does not work and is traumatising), help us learn the stuff that we actually need to learn:

🌱 Listening to our bodies
🌱 Understanding our sensory needs
🌱 Working out strategies to help with dysregulation
🌱 Understanding our learning style
🌱 Knowing who our safe people are
🌱 Drawing boundaries
🌱 Knowing what accommodations to ask for
🌱 Knowing how to ask for them
🌱 Standing up for ourselves

Childhood is the time to learn and practice these skills, so by the time we’re adults, we’re good at them.

Otherwise we arrive at adulthood not having a clue.

So many of us have lived it.
It’s not fun.

Time to change it for our ND kids.

Yes?

Em 🌈