Tag: anxiety
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A Trail of Small Questions — How Our Son With Selective Mutism Found His Voice
For over a year our son did not speak a word at school. This is the small, unglamorous work, over two and a half years, that slowly helped him find his voice.
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The Morning He Wouldn’t Let Go: When Your Child Cries Every Morning Before School
The night before a school day, the question always comes. What the crying at the bus door was really telling me, and what slowly helped.
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Sitting with the Unknown: The Emotional Limbo After an Autism and ADHD Assessment
The assessment is over. The two-week wait begins. On circling thoughts, old self-doubt, and what surfaces when you stop moving long enough to sit with yourself.
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A Heart Like Mine: Parenting a Child with Selective Mutism and Anxiety
My youngest has selective mutism and deep anxiety. He feels everything, the way I always did. What I am learning to hand a child whose heart is like mine.