Welcome to the Wire Differently podcast where we chat all about how to best support exceptional children.

I'm your host, Holly Blanc Moses, the mom psychologist who gets it.

Welcome, everyone. I'm excited to be speaking with Mercedes Samudio today. She is a licensed therapist and the

author of shameproof parenting, find your unique parenting voice, feel empowered, and raise whole

healthy children. So welcome. Hey, thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm excited that you're

here with me today. And parent shaming is, oh, my goodness.

It is such a big problem.

And I love that you wrote a book to support all of us and understanding it.

So let's just, you know, jump in and start talking about it, in particular

about parent shaming in parents of differently wired children. I was saying to you as we were

kind of talking and just kind of reconnecting that I think parent shaming is something that is very,

has run rampant. I think especially,

yay, social media and the internet. I think it's made it way more easy for people to judge

others parenting decisions. And I think when we talk about children who are differently wired and

the parents who are raising them, I think a lot of times the parent shaming comes from people not

being able to see why your child might be having outburst or emotional meltdowns or tantrums.

They don't understand.

And so they usually attribute it to your type of parenting.

If you didn't spoil them, if you disciplined them better, if you did these things, then your child would not act that way.

And they have a really

hard time understanding that children who might be atypically developing or differently wired,

that's just biologically how their body responds to different stimuli in the environment. It has

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