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Your Child is Not Broken
- Author
- Heidi Mavir
- Narrator
- Heidi Mavir
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 11 May 2023
- Run Time
- 3 hours 5 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Coping with / advice about neurodevelopmental issues or topics, Parenting, parenthood: advice, topics and issues, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
This audiobook is passionately and evocatively read by the author, Heidi Mavir.
An updated edition of the Sunday Times bestseller.
Your Child Is Not Broken is THE book for parents who need permission to do things differently.
An unapologetic, deeply moving manual for parents of neurodivergent children from Heidi Mavir, a late-identified, neurodivergent adult and parent to an autistic/ADHD teenager.
This updated edition includes information on Pathological Demand Avoidance, Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria, an interview with Heidi's son Theo and more.
Follow Heidi's irreverent and brutally honest story of her fight to be seen, heard and supported, while swimming against a tide of parent blame, ableist stereotypes and the weight of other people’s opinions.
Your Child Is Not Broken is a call to arms for parents and carers of autistic, ADHD, or otherwise neurodivergent children. It is the book that no one has dared to write but every parent needs to read. Heidi’s hilarious anecdotes and heartbreaking storytelling offer validation, comfort, reassurance and wisdom to parents who need it the most.
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Details
- Author
- Heidi Mavir
- Narrator
- Heidi Mavir
- Duration
- 3 hours 5 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 May 2023
- ISBN
- 9781035032051
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Coping with / advice about neurodevelopmental issues or topics, Parenting, parenthood: advice, topics and issues, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
This audiobook is passionately and evocatively read by the author, Heidi Mavir.An updated edition of the Sunday Times bestseller.Your Child Is Not Broken is THE book for parents who need permission to do things differently.An unapologetic, deeply moving manual for parents of neurodivergent children from Heidi Mavir, a late-identified, neurodivergent adult and parent to an autistic/ADHD teenager.This updated edition includes information on Pathological Demand Avoidance, Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria, an interview with Heidi's son Theo and more.Follow Heidi's irreverent and brutally honest story of her fight to be seen, heard and supported, while swimming against a tide of parent blame, ableist stereotypes and the weight of other people’s opinions.Your Child Is Not Broken is a call to arms for parents and carers of autistic, ADHD, or otherwise neurodivergent children. It is the book that no one has dared to write but every parent needs to read. Heidi’s hilarious anecdotes and heartbreaking storytelling offer validation, comfort, reassurance and wisdom to parents who need it the most.
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