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Podcast: Autism and Parenting
Episode: Lesson from my 5 year old niece
Description: Today, while coloring with my niece, I began outlining a monkey in brownâalmost instinctively. She paused, looked at me, and said, âBig dadda, itâs your monkey. You donât have to color it all brown. Use any color.âThat statement struck me hard.How often do we live our lives coloring within lines drawn by others, bound by ideas that arenât really rulesâjust norms weâve silently accepted? I realized I was about to color that monkey âthe right wayâ because somewhere along the way, I believed that was the only way. But the truth is - nothi...