Our Kids Belong Here: A Conversation for Families and the Systems That Serve Neurodivergent Kids | Part 2
From Real Talk with Tina and Ann · 1:03:28
Show by Ann Kagarise
Send us Fan MailTemple Grandin endorsed Katie's Book: Your Kids Belong HereYour child isn’t “too much,” they’re navigating a world that keeps narrowing what counts as normal. We sit down again with author and law professor Katie Rose Pryal to talk about neurodiversity, autism, ADHD, and the hidden cost of masking, especially for kids who learn early that survival means performing. Katie shares a powerful reframe she uses at home: “social acting” as protection, not self-erasure, plus concrete supports like counseling and journaling that help kids process what’s hard without carrying it alone. We also get honest about school systems that confuse compliance with intelligence. Standardized testing, noisy classrooms, rigid schedules, and grading curves can make capable neurodivergent students feel broken. Katie unpacks why accommodations are not lowered expectations, why report cards can hide disability, and how families can use tools like executive function coaching, alternative schooling, and IEP knowledge to secure access. If you’ve ever walked into a meeting and felt outnumbered, we talk about your right to bring an advocate and your right not to sign what you don’t agree with. Then we go where parents live every day: bullying. We cover what to do when a young child suddenly refuses school, why listening without reacting builds trust, and what research shows about adult complicity when neurodivergent kids are targeted. We zoom out to the bigger fight too: scarce resources that turn families, teachers, and communities into enemies while budgets get cut upstream. If you want language you can use today and a steadier sense of what “belonging” really means, press play. Subscribe, share this with a parent who needs it, and leave a review so more families can find these conversations.Support the show
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