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Last year, something happened to my child at his daycare that's taken me a while to process. Now, I'm ready to talk about. He was dysregulated and overwhelmed. He needed connection, support, co-regulation — all the things we know matter, but instead, they put him in a corner alone and left him there as, and I quote, "emotional child". I know this because a photo of him in this state was shared with every family in his classroom. This became his last day at the centre. In that

The words adults use about children become the words children use about themselves. When those words are rooted in deficit, disorder and dysfunction, children internalise a story about who they are that's really hard to unwrite.

This is one of the most important shifts a parent of a neurodivergent child can make: understanding that behaviour isn't the problem. It's the message.

Let's unpack five of the most common outdated beliefs about neurodivergent children and talk about what's actually going on.