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Going Granola Without Going Nuts · Neurodiversity · Educational Advocacy · 6 min read Let me be upfront about something before I get into this. I share a lot on this site. What has worked for our family, what I have learned, what I wish I had known sooner. But I want to be clear about one specific thing: I am not a psychologist, a diagnostician, or an educational specialist. I am a mom who did a lot of research and eventually knew enough to know we needed professional help. T

Hearing the words “your child has ADHD” can bring a mix of emotions: relief, worry, validation, fear, and about a hundred questions all at once. For us, it was both familiar and still unsettling. ADHD wasn’t new to our family. My husband has ADHD, so there was a sense of recognition and a thought of this explains a lot . But alongside that familiarity came fear. A quiet, protective fear that our child might have to relive some of the harder parts kids faced in the ’80s, when