‘Born Extraordinary’ Helps Parents Teach Kids to Flaunt Their Differences

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Meg Zucker was born with one finger on each hand, shortened arms and one toe on each foot, a result of a hereditary condition called ectrodactyly. With the support of her parents who championed her abilities, Zucker learned to ignore how others perceived her and went on to become a successful attorney. But when she passed the same condition to her sons, Zucker says her “old innate pangs of shame” returned, and she had to start the learning process all over again. Zucker joins us to talk about her new book “Born Extraordinary” and the wisdom she’s gained about how to empower kids to talk about – and flaunt – what makes them different. Guests: Meg Zucker, author, “Born Extraordinary: Empowering Children with Differences and Disabilities;" president and founder, "Don't Hide It, Flaunt It" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.1	Thank you. From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. When Meg Zucker learned her two sons had a hereditary
0:55.3	limb condition that caused them to have missing digits on their hands and feet, the very same
0:59.7	condition that Zucker herself has. She says she still felt like she was crash landing in an
1:05.0	unstoppable new reality. Zucker had learned to feel comfortable with her difference, but helping
1:10.2	her kids become comfortable with theirs was a different journey, once she documents in her new book Born Extraordinary.
1:17.7	We'll talk to Zooker about empowering kids to talk about and flaunt what makes them different.
1:22.3	She joins us after this news.
1:38.8	I'm Mina Kim. Welcome to Forum.
1:45.6	Meg Zucker was born with one finger on each hand, one toe on each foot, and shortened forearms.
1:50.2	And she learned, with the help of her parents, not to care what other people think.
1:55.6	But when her two sons were born with the hereditary condition, that learning process started all over again. Zooker joins us to talk about parenting a child with a difference or disability and the power in teaching kids to flaunt what makes them different.
2:05.6	Megziger is founder and president of the nonprofit, Don't Hide It, Flant It, and her new book is Born Extraordinary.
2:12.6	Welcome to Forum, Megziker.
2:15.6	Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here. Well, it's a pleasure to have you. I understand your condition is called extradactally, but that you didn't know that that's what it was called until you were older when you were applying to law school. Can you tell us that story? Yeah, it's truly an embarrassing story where I was at, and I must tell you, by the time you're
2:37.9	applying to law school, you'd hope that I wasn't still seeing my pediatrician, but I was.
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