Fresh Take: Jessica Shaw, "Everyone Gets a Juice Box"

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How can we best support our neurodivergent kids? Jessica Shaw, host of the podcast Everyone Gets a Juice Box, discusses the realities of raising neurodivergent kids—and the emotional, practical, and often isolating journey parents navigate along the way. Jessica shares how the concept of neurodiversity has evolved, why the “big tent” of neurodivergence can feel both supportive and lonely, and how parents can find connection through shared experience. Together, Jessica and Margaret unpack the challenges of seeking diagnoses, trusting parental instincts, and navigating conflicting advice from professionals and peers. They also answer some listener questions about raising neurodiverse kids. Here's where you can find Jessica: www.understood.org Listen to "Everyone Gets a Juice Box" here (and wherever you get your podcasts) What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/⁠ mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, neurodivergent parenting, raising neurodivergent kids, neurodiversity in children, parenting special needs children, autism ADHD parenting, parenting teens with special needs, neurodivergent teens independence, special needs parenting support, parenting podcast neurodiversity, emotional challenges of parenting, early diagnosis neurodivergence, parenting community support, traveling with neurodivergent child, sensory needs children tips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.8	Hello and welcome to What Fresh Hell Laughing in the Face of Motherhood.
0:35.3	This is Margaret, and today I am talking to Jessica
0:38.3	Shaw. Jessica is an award-winning journalist and radio host whose work has appeared in the New York
0:44.0	Times, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, and more. She's also the proud mom of two teens who
0:50.5	think differently and the host of the new podcast, everyone gets a juice box, a space
0:55.8	where parents connect over the challenges and triumphs of raising neurodivergent kids.
1:01.3	Welcome, Jessica.
1:02.3	Thank you, Margaret.
1:03.1	I'm so happy to be here.
1:04.8	So we like to begin the podcast with a definition.
1:08.4	So neurodivergent is a term that I don't know when it came into the lexicon,
1:14.0	but I have a neurodivergent child myself. And we now, I feel like, are very familiar with the terms
1:20.4	neurodivergent, neurotypical. So tell me about how you define the term neurodivergent.
1:27.4	As you said, this is a term that is everywhere now, and people are just like, wait,
1:33.1	what does it actually mean?
1:35.4	To me, I guess it means, and by the way, I'm no doctor, nor am I a dictionary writer,
1:40.8	but it means someone who thinks a little bit differently or who learns
1:46.5	differently or whose brain works in a slightly or very different way than the mainstream.
1:53.8	If you're looking for a more technical definition, I can tell you neurodiversity is a concept
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