Welcome to the WIRE Differently podcast where we chat all about how to best support exceptional

children. I'm your host, Holly Blanc Moses, the mom psychologist who gets it.

Welcome, everyone. I am, I know I always say I'm excited because I am excited all the time for our podcast, but I am

extra excited today because I am interviewing my most favorite, most special guest to date.

He is my oldest son, Christopher.

Hi, my name is Christopher.

I'm 15.

And the reason she's interviewing me, because I do have severe ADHD in autism.

So Christopher agreed to come on and talk about how his experiences, right, honey, your experiences.

In school, yeah.

Yeah, you said, this is the topic that you were choosing and that it was really important

to you.

And this is a great time because there was a lot happening with going back to school and

what's that going to look like and nobody quite knows exactly because of COVID-19, right?

Yeah.

So we're figuring it out.

So you had, now you're going into high school.

You had some pretty, you had a pretty cool last year as far as being in your middle school, you liked it, you felt like a lot of

teachers understood you. Yeah. And so something you wanted to, you told me you wanted to talk about

today was, you know, how it feels when somebody, a teacher understands you. Now, you've told me

before when a teacher doesn't understand you,

you know, you'll often hear things like you're not trying, you are being disruptive on purpose,

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