Hi everyone, welcome to Add Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson and I have the biggest

privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every

week to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement and I am just so glad

that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me.

Hi everyone, it's Sally Clarkson and I have had the most fun day to day. I can't wait to tell you about it.

I welcome you to my podcast at home with Sally and friends and I have a real special friend with me today.

His name is Nathan Clarkson. Hi Nate. Hey everyone, how's it going? I know that I have so many people who are new to my podcasts and I feel like you should know my whole family because a lot of people have known my whole family forever. We've been doing conferences. We did 21 years of conferences all over the world and all my kids bless their hearts grew up at conferences and it was a real part of our heritage.

But Nathan is my third child, my second son and Nathan, I think we should tell him at least a little bit about the book that we wrote together.

Nate and I are such kindred spirits and so much alike in so many ways and so he came to me and said, mom, we need to write this book together. And so tell him about our book Nate.

Yeah, well, I came to you and I wanted to write a book with you because I thought it'd be interesting to have two different perspectives on what it was like for me growing up as a different kid.

The book is called different and it kind of goes through our story of what it was like raising me and what it was like being me. I grew up with learning disabilities with dyslexia and an ADD and I had a lot of mental illness issues as well as OCD and depression.

Even from an early age and I just thought it would be a really unique kind of story to tell because I feel like there are a lot of stories like ours.

There's a lot of kids who feel different from one thing or another that make them feel separated from the world or make them feel too much or make them feel dumb like I did.

And so I wanted to tell our story to give kids and parents hope that differences can be beautiful things and that God can use our differences in our lives.

And it was such a fun. It was much more exciting and fulfilling to me to write this book with Nathan than I even knew it was going to be and I discovered in the middle of it that I was a different child in my family.

I am quite sure I have ADD and I also have a little bit of OCD and didn't ever know it. And as I was writing the book I thought, oh that's me. Oh that's me.

And what I really think is that as I look back on Nathan, I think Nathan is a gift. That's what his name is all about. Nathan John.

But when I had him when he was little and I was such an unseasoned mom, I didn't know what to do. But he didn't sleep through the night till he was about four years old.

Nate was always well and tight. He was enthusiastic and loud and fun and he always had a whole bunch of friends. He was the Pied Piper. Everyone followed him around.

But he also had more trouble with some visual eye hand coordination stuff, not coordination, but connecting his eye to his brain in terms of things like math and just lots of things.

And he had a hard time settling down and then of course eventually we found out that he had a he was obsessive compulsive and then eventually we found out that three of our children were.

And so I feel like I had to learn as I went along the way. But I think Nate, tell him about just a little bit about if you would look back on your growing up years and of course you know we weren't perfect and you have a lot of baggage from your life as all kids do.

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