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Real Talk, Whole Life

Bonus: A Full Spectrum Family, Autism and ADHD w/ Wesley McCarry

Real Talk, Whole Life

Cloud10

News, Social Sciences, Entertainment News, Science, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Stacy and Matt's youngest son, Wesley, joins for this special bonus episode of The Whole View to share his story and experience with both being on the autism spectrum (ASD) and with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Wesley shares what neurodivergence is like and tips for how to parent, love, or understand the wonderful ways his brain functions. You can read more about our full spectrum, neurodivergent family on realeverything.com! The referenced article with more details can be found here: A Full Spectrum Family: Autism and ADHD 9reviewed and approved by Wesley). Wesley takes Just Thrive probiotic gummies – Save 15% sitewide with code THEWHOLEVIEW Don’t forget to subscribe to this channel and visit realeverything.com!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So listeners, we have a special bonus podcast show for each day.

0:29.8

The very special guest, y'all, this is the other time I don't go on here just to do the sponsorship.

0:36.8

Let's go.

0:37.8

I'm going to be a high five.

0:39.8

Hey, are you going to be a normal usual fell?

0:42.8

Yeah, I'm going to be my normal usual self and not just be like my sponsorship self.

0:46.8

Okay.

0:47.8

Not in that normal in a sense of like everybody else because I don't want that.

0:51.8

I want you to be your usual self.

0:54.8

How about that?

0:55.8

And that's what we're going to talk about today, right?

0:57.8

And this is how you are with called neuro diverse.

1:01.8

My brain is different than yours.

1:03.8

Yes.

1:04.8

That's fair to say.

1:06.8

And we have shared with everyone for many years, but we've known that you've had attention disorder since you were a baby.

1:19.8

And today we're going to talk about what that looks like today as a 13 year old, but also that you are recently diagnosed with autism.

1:31.8

And how we are as a family.

1:35.8

And, you know, as a mom, how I am supporting you, but also how we worked with the school to make sure that you were getting the rate sports at school.

1:44.8

What that looked like before and after for you, because I think a lot of people are afraid of a label or, you know, of their child being different.

1:54.8

And what I think is really cool is that when you embrace that, you have such creativity.

2:02.8

And bring a lot to the table that is special that I think would be helpful for other people to hear.

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