Quick take : Vacation Re-Entry, Fatherhood is Humility and Progress Being a dad of a neurodivergent child is remembering, fatherhood is humility and progress. We were away from home for over 3 weeks; most in New Orleans with a finish in Panama CIty Beach. Art camp, an unexpected Pokémon event, wandering & exploring, good times, disappointing …

Being OK With How You Handle It — Parenting a Neurodivergent Child with ADHD and PDA Anxiety-Sensitive Parenting Strategies I Try and am learning to accept What This Is (and Isn’t): ADHD, PDA/Demand Avoidance, and Emotion Dysregulation My boy, I’ve never thought of him as depressed, or even chronically sad. Just at times having a calm …

Parenting a pathological demand avoidant child: A Dad's Honest Story About PDA One dad's look at pathological demand avoidance, ADHD, and why your kid isn't giving you a hard time — they're having a hard time I'm not a therapist. I have no clinical training. What I have is an 11-year-old son — brilliant, funny, intense, …

PDA and ADHD: Our First Saints Game Experience Inclusion, connection, and what I’m learning I took my son—ADHD, PDA, and an anxious, brilliant brain—to his first Saints game, where joy and overload sit inches apart. Stadiums can be magic, but for kids like him they’re also a sensory storm: lights, sirens, crowds, and a thousand “do …