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The Impact Setting Boundaries Had in My Neurodiverse Family

By Heather Parks — 2021

I had an extra mission: To find my way through the maze of the special educational needs system and to understand a whole new culture of neurodiversity.

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Coming Out Autistic

Transgender or gender-fluid people are more likely to be neurodivergent, and vice versa. Here’s what that’s like.

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Brandy Schillace
2021
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How to Raise a Gender-Neutral Baby

More and more parents are deciding to raise their kids gender-neutral. Experts explain what it is, when parents should start, and how it affects a child's development.

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Alana Bracken
2020
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Is It Self-Care, or Is It Capitalism?

So many of the little rituals I have each day—like my makeup or skincare routine—do help soothe and/or rejuvenate me. For me, any type of solo practiced routine is good. But I’ve learned that self-care does not, and cannot, sustain me. And I believe that this may be the case for many of you.

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Ijeoma Oluo
2021
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Can We Choose Our Own Identity?

Who owns your identity, and how can old ways of thinking be replaced?

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Kwame Anthony Appiah
2018
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I Let My Child Create Their Own Gender Identity. The Experience Has Been a Gift for Us Both

We weren’t going to assign a gender or disclose their reproductive anatomy to people who didn’t need to know, and we were going to use the gender-neutral personal pronouns they, them and their.

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Kyl Myers
2020
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Explaining Nonbinary: How to Talk to Kids About Gender

Gender isn't limited to boys and girls, so it's time to break the habit of assuming people must be one or the other. The best place to start? Teaching the right concepts to our children.

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Amber Leventry
2020
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The Hardest Part of Having a Nonbinary Kid Is Other People

A mother recounts the pushback she received from her own family in raising a gender-nonconforming child.

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Sandy Jorgenson
2020
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