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  • Parenting While Autistic

  • Raising Kids When You're Neurodivergent (Adulting While Autistic, Book 4)
  • By: Wendela Whitcomb Marsh
  • Narrated by: Angela Schuler
  • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Parenting While Autistic

By: Wendela Whitcomb Marsh
Narrated by: Angela Schuler
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If anyone suggests that autistic people should not have children, in the mistaken belief that they would not be good parents because of their neurodiversity, they are wrong. Completely wrong. This is not to say that every autistic person should have a child, any more than every neuro-majority person should. People usually know for themselves whether or not they want to become parents, and if they don’t, they shouldn’t. It’s as simple as that.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that every moment will be sunshine, rainbows, and cute, cuddly babies who sleep all night and never throw their oatmeal on the floor. Babies are just teenagers on hold, and teenagers are adults in waiting. At every step in the growing up process there will be hard times, and there will be joyful times. Parents have made this same journey since people began peopling, and the journey will continue after our children’s children have grandchildren of their own. We’re part of a huge spectrum of parenting through the ages. Isn’t it a wonder and a privilege to be a link in this chain?

Having a different brain as autists, ADHDers, and AuDHDers do, does not mean that you shouldn’t be part of this link, if your heart leads you to parenting. You’ll be amazing! You and I both know, though, that being neurodivergent in a neuro-majority world is not easy. Parenting isn’t easy, either, but you can do difficult things. You’ve been doing them all along, haven’t you? Parenting is just one more challenge you can manage, and it’s worth it. This book is here to help you navigate the unique aspects of parenting while autistic. Throughout the book you’ll find side trips to focus on various aspects of parenting while autistic.

©2023 Wendela Whitcomb Marsh (P)2024 Future Horizons

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Misleading title

Author isn’t autistic, she’s just married to one. She just describe parenting ‘students’ focusing on their education phases, and she describes how something may bother an autistic parent.

I was expecting a book to receive advice as an autistic parent about on how to communicate better and improve my relationship as a dad with my whole family.

On the audiobook out of the whole 5 hours, only 1m19s were actually this, some words from her autistic husband at the end of the book telling you that you’ve got this.

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