Carrie & David Grant | Raising neurodivergent and non-binary children.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Well, what a lovely reunion this was. 18 years after I first interviewed Carrie and David Grant when they were on Fame Academy we meet again. And what a conversation!
Not only do they guide me through the most significant risks they’ve navigated, including whether or not to have children when they were so happy just the two of them, but they also describe what it’s been like navigating parenting four neurodivergent children, three who identify as non-binary or trans and who have struggled with their mental health.
They were when I met them nearly two decades ago, warm, compassionate and generous and they are precisely the same all these later and want nothing more than to share what they’ve learned with others.
Carrie & David’s book A Very Modern Family is available now.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know if I'm going to stop. |
| 0:01.0 | I don't know if I'm going to stop. |
| 0:02.0 | Okay, thank you. |
| 0:03.0 | I don't know if I'm going to stop. |
| 0:05.0 | So you came into sort of a public consciousness as vocal coaches on television. |
| 0:10.0 | It was Ruth of Andross. |
| 0:11.0 | And he said, do you have a vocal coach? |
| 0:14.0 | And I was like, do you? |
| 0:16.0 | And he said, of course. |
| 0:17.0 | I thought he was just great because he woke up one morning and he was great. |
| 0:21.0 | Oh, that's it. |
| 0:22.0 | David and I were so shocked when marriage worked. |
| 0:28.0 | You get past the fact that you've got an inferioral disease. |
| 0:31.0 | There is magic at the other side of that. |
| 0:33.0 | So our children are incredibly intersectional. |
| 0:35.0 | So of course, they're mixed race. |
| 0:37.0 | And they are neurodivergent. |
| 0:39.0 | How many are non-binary or trans? |
| 0:41.0 | What are the figures here? |
| 0:42.0 | Takes us right back to the conversation we were having about coaching. |
| 0:45.0 | You know, some people felt, well, I don't naturally get this. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to the party. |
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