Today's episode contains curse words that are bleeped out.

Now, if you have a child that this would be difficult for, please listen to this important

episode outside their presence.

Welcome to the Autism-A-D podcast.

I'm your host, Holly Blanc Moses, the mom psychologist who gets it. Now let's get started.

Welcome, Brendan Mahad. How are you? I'm well. How are you, Holly? Good. It's so good that you're here.

I appreciate you being on the Autism, ADHD podcast and Autism, ADHD TV.

Yeah. Thank you for having me. It's an honor to be here. Thank you. So I'm going to introduce you.

Brennan is an internationally recognized ADHD executive function experts, highly engaging,

sought after speaker, and the host of the ADHD Essentials podcast, a former teacher, mental health counselor, in principle, Brennan helps individuals,

family, schools, and businesses manage the challenges of ADHD in net neurodiversity through

an approach that blends education, collaborative problem

solving, and accountability with compassion, humor, focus on strengths and growth and his

trademark wall of awful model, which we will talk about another time, right?

Yeah, sure. That's cool. Definitely have to have you back on again.

So today we're talking about swearing, cussing, however you want to say that, bad words,

whatever works for you.

This comes up a lot, I think, for kids with autism and ADHD.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, because it's, so swearing is an easy way to get a response.

It's an easy way to express your emotions and your struggles and frustrations and all that stuff.

And with kids who are not always so socially skilled and socially sort of aware,

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