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We're going to talk about how to give effective instructions.

And not only because we want to provide guidance to our children, students, and clients,

but also because we want to provide instructions in a way that works for

them in a neurodiversity affirming way. Now, instructions can be tough. It can be frustrating for everyone.

Sometimes I'll hear parents and teachers say they won't listen.

They're being defiant. They're trying to get their way. They're trying to get out of what I'm

asking them to do. I hear this frustration. And even though I have been working with nerd divergent people for 27 years now,

even though I'm nerd a virgin myself, I have two differently wired kids, sometimes those thoughts

still pop up in my head. They're trying to be difficult.

They're trying to get out of it. But I don't say those words out loud because they're simply

not true. They aren't true.

And they tear down nerd or virgin kids.

They will feel unsafe around people who use those words.

And I want to start with the reasons why we have to learn to give instructions in a way that works

nerd a virgin kids. Simply saying nerd a virgin, what that means is we don't process information

like most people.

And instructions are information.

This means that we need instructions in a different way.

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