What looks like defiance is often exhaustion.

Ajouté : 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]What looks like defiance is often exhaustion. In today's podcast episode, Jess Hendrickson I talk about autistic girls, masking, and what happens when kids spend all day trying to hold everything together at school. Because often the meltdown adults are reacting to isn't really about the small thing happening in that moment. It's the pressure release after a full day of coping, masking, and pushing through the overwhelm. And I think understanding that changes how we support kids completely.

[00:00:34]The new episode of Educating the Uniquely Wired Child is out now.