You Don’t Want a Hug, Right? The Hilarity and the Hard of Raising Humans with Neurodiversity
Gwen & Kristen
34 episodes
2 weeks ago
Sometimes the best-laid plans… fall flat. And when you’re raising a neurodivergent young adult, those pivots can feel like earthquakes. In this episode, Gwen and Kristen get honest about something big: Rylan is back home from college and the beautiful, carefully supported experience that seemed guaranteed… wasn’t. This isn’t a story of failure. It’s a story of real parenting: the kind that requires grit, grief, and the courage to start again. If you’ve ever tasted disappointment after believi...
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Sometimes the best-laid plans… fall flat. And when you’re raising a neurodivergent young adult, those pivots can feel like earthquakes. In this episode, Gwen and Kristen get honest about something big: Rylan is back home from college and the beautiful, carefully supported experience that seemed guaranteed… wasn’t. This isn’t a story of failure. It’s a story of real parenting: the kind that requires grit, grief, and the courage to start again. If you’ve ever tasted disappointment after believi...
Ep 29: Adoption, Firefighting, and off to College. Breaking down our 7 month hiatus
You Don’t Want a Hug, Right? The Hilarity and the Hard of Raising Humans with Neurodiversity
32 minutes
5 months ago
Ep 29: Adoption, Firefighting, and off to College. Breaking down our 7 month hiatus
We didn’t mean to disappear for seven months… okay, maybe we did. But we’re back! Turns out, living through existential dread and trying to raise neurodivergent kids is a full-time gig (with no PTO). But we’ve surfaced—with stories, updates, and an entire dragon-themed Zoom backdrop Gwen can’t figure out how to remove. In this catch-up episode, Gwen and Kristen are dishing out all the highs, lows, awkward award nights, top hat choices, and job transitions their neurodivergent kids have been n...
You Don’t Want a Hug, Right? The Hilarity and the Hard of Raising Humans with Neurodiversity
Sometimes the best-laid plans… fall flat. And when you’re raising a neurodivergent young adult, those pivots can feel like earthquakes. In this episode, Gwen and Kristen get honest about something big: Rylan is back home from college and the beautiful, carefully supported experience that seemed guaranteed… wasn’t. This isn’t a story of failure. It’s a story of real parenting: the kind that requires grit, grief, and the courage to start again. If you’ve ever tasted disappointment after believi...
