By Maureen Seaberg — 2015
Pioneering therapist Dr. Judith Orloff counsels the highly empathic.
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CLEAR ALL
The short answer, yes and no. This is a question I get REGULARLY, and honestly never knew how to answer it.
Safety is not the absence of threat, it is the presence of connection.
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As a successful Harvard- and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and devoted mother, Jenara Nerenberg was shocked to discover that her “symptoms”—only ever labeled as anxiety—were considered autistic and ADHD.
What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and the future of our society depends on our understanding it.