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Reflections, resources, and unfiltered thoughts from the trenches of parenting, advocacy, and coaching 2E families.

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“But They’re Doing Fine at School.”

For 2e kids — gifted alongside a learning disability, ADHD, autism, or another difference — “doing fine” academically and behaviorally is often exactly why testing and services get denied. It shouldn't be.

August 2026 · 14 min readRead →

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Schema

When the Parent Trigger Is Really a Childhood Echo

Why your biggest parenting flashpoints often have less to do with your child and more to do with the schemas you carry.

May 202610 min read

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Advocacy

What I Wish I Knew Before My First IEP Meeting

A practical, honest guide to walking into school meetings as the expert on your own child, without burning bridges.

April 202612 min read

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2E Parenting

The Cost of Masking, for Parents, Too

We talk about masking in kids. Less often about the 2E adults raising them while holding it all together.

March 20269 min read

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Reflections

On Raising Twins Who Are Exactly the Same and Completely Different

Two kids, one diagnosis, two entirely different humans. What identical twins taught me about individualized support.

February 20268 min read

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Advocacy

How I Got My School District to Pay for Our Neuropsych Eval

I didn't just ask the district to pay for an independent evaluation. I submitted the request with a documented case showing exactly why I believed their evaluation was inadequate. When the dispute escalated, the record mattered, and we ultimately settled before a judge ever had to decide it.

January 202614 min read

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Advocacy

5 Things Your Child Study Team Doesn't Want You to Know

The quiet realities of how Child Study Teams actually operate, and the leverage you have that nobody is going to volunteer to tell you about.

January 202610 min read

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Advocacy

The Importance of Working WITH Your Child's Teacher

Adversarial advocacy has its place, but most days, the relationship with your child's teacher is the single biggest factor in how school actually goes.

May 20269 min read

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Schema

Why 2E Children Don't Suffer from Poor Behavior

Behavior is communication. When we call a 2E child's response "poor behavior," we're describing the symptom and ignoring the sentence underneath it.

May 202610 min read

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2E Life

Why a Gifted or 2E Person Can Hold the Room One Minute and Lose Their Words the Next

The whiplash between articulate, confident speech and sudden verbal shutdown isn't inconsistency. It's how gifted and 2E nervous systems work — at every age.

May 20269 min read

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2E Life

Gifted Doesn't Mean "Super Smart at Everything"

When people hear 'gifted,' they often picture a child who glides through school. But giftedness is often much more uneven than people realize — and 'gifted' is not a synonym for 'good at everything.'

May 20268 min read