Episode 4: Enabling Versus Support, and How Trust Actually Gets Built

Parenting Neurodivergent Teens & Young Adults · May 7, 2025 · 42m

Your young adult has not left the house in four days. You have noticed, and you have also noticed something less comfortable: part of you is relieved. The house is calm. You are able to get things done. Nobody had a hard conversation, no meltdowns.

Then it is seven in the evening and you realize the entire week has gone.

Amy J. brings that exact situation to Dr. Ed Callahan in this episode, and she is unusually honest about the part most parents leave out — that the drift into isolation is sometimes easier for everyone in the short term, including you. This is not an episode about a parent…