Differently Wired Quotes

“As you likely know all too well, parenting an atypical kid in a conventional world is an often lonely and difficult journey, with our families”
― Deborah Reber, Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World

“Not only are these differences not going away, but we as a society need the millions of neurodiverse children in the world today, with their powerful gifts, talents, and abilities, to flourish. Because they are the future.”
― Deborah Reber, Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World

“When we voice our reality, educate others, and stand up for what we and our family need from a place of compassion, strength, confidence, and peace, the whole outdated, ineffective, intolerant parenting paradigm that we’ve lived with for decades is going to come tumbling down.”
― Deborah Reber, Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World

“To be clear, I’m not talking about a handful of kids here. According to the latest estimates, approximately one in five school-aged children is in some way neurologically divergent, meaning that how their brains function is “atypical” from what’s considered “normal.” In reference to this statistic, author John Elder Robison wrote on his Psychology Today blog My Life with Asperger’s, “That makes neurodiversity (in total) more common than being six feet tall, or having red hair.”
― Deborah Reber, Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World

“Tricky. The usual parenting approaches simply don’t work for us. Every decision about our child involves just a little more consideration, stress, and anxiety than what other parents might experience. It’s no cakewalk”
― Deborah Reber, Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World