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Podcast: Naturally Recovering Autism with Karen Thomas
Episode: The Hidden Stress Autism Parents Carry That Most People Never See [Podcast Episode #242]
Description: Thereās a kind of stress autism parents carry that doesnāt show up in a doctorās office chart, doesnāt get acknowledged in quick conversations, and rarely gets fully understood by those who havenāt lived it.
Itās quiet. Itās constant. And itās heavy.
I knowābecause Iāve lived it.
For years, I walked into appointments hoping to be heardā¦ only to walk out feeling dismissed. Like what I was seeing in my own child didnāt quite ācount.ā Like my instincts were somehow less valid than a brief clinical observation...