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Thank you for this! Brilliant! As a coach, audhd myself, late diagnosed queer, trans/enbee who is also white and middle class I lived for over 40 years with chronic illness (in full remission for all 5). I appreciate every word you write. I don’t scroll socials, so I don’t know the coaching brands you are talking about, but I would never try to fix anyone. That isn’t my understanding of coaching. I offer somatic education and regulation via IFS which is a modality that dwells in metaphor and allows each client to create their own healing for whatever they need within themselves. I recognize myself as a GLP who uses echolalia though I wasn’t aware of this until I started to write about it. I’m a playwright first and script everything! When I homeschooled my son, he spoke in sentences at 13 months and often quoted from the storybooks we were reading. It made perfect sense to me, so there was never any issue with it in our house, but his brief foray into preschool showed me how screwed up they were. He was accused of having memorized the [stupid] books there and pretending to read them! They were also upset that he ate slower than the other children and had to get his snack first or he would not have finished “on time.” Being audhd has led me to question everything and maintain a distance from the way most Americans live their lives, a distance I have found most helpful. I appreciate everything you are doing to give me a better understanding of myself, my family and my clients! Thank you!

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