Understanding Neurodiversity and Neurodivergence
As we move into March, I want to shift our focus slightly.
Many of us are parenting, teaching, or supporting children whose nervous systems work differently.
Sometimes we name that difference.
Sometimes we are still exploring it.
Sometimes we are only beginning to see it.
Neurodiversity simply means that brains develop and function in different ways.
Neurodivergence describes individuals whose brains process, regulate, feel, learn, or communicate differently from what society considers typical.
It is not a flaw.
It is not a trend.
It is not caused by parenting.
It is human variation.
When we understand neurodiversity through this lens, behaviour starts to make sense.
Intensity makes sense.
Exhaustion makes sense.
Avoidance makes sense.
Understanding reduces blame.
And where blame reduces, safety increases.
👉 Weekly Nervous System Nudge
A Supportive Strategy from Me to You
✨ This week, we replace judgement with curiosity.
Instead of:
“Why won’t this child just…”
We try:
“What might their nervous system be experiencing right now?”
Curiosity shifts everything.
Your Child and Adolescent Educational Psychologist,
Lorraine Xx
P.S. In the Membership this week, we will be covering 5 practical ways to impliment this weeks Nervous System Nudge - Support That Works
Members, please login and go to your newsfeed to this weeks 5 strategies.
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