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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST_BONUS SHOW_HOST TRVEDA HARRIS · DA CREW Podcast

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Sunday, and I thank you guys for taking the time to tune in with
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us tonight. As always, you know that I cannot do anything without going
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to God in prayer, so let's go to Him first and then we'll get
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started with my guest, Miss Bridget Green, and we're gonna talk about neurodiversity
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everything that they do and your precious and holy name, Jesus, we pray.
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Please welcome miss Bridget Green to the show. Thank you, Thank you
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for having me, Thank you for being here. Now I want you to
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tell us a little bit about you. First. Well, my name is
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Bridget Green. I am a coach and therapist. I enjoy working with couples.
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I work mostly with neurodiverse couples, but I work with all couples.
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I also teach in our local jail, and I can teach women and I
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enjoy doing that also. Okay, well, thank you for being here,
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and can you give the guests that are listening a brief definition of what neural
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diversity means. Neural diversity is simply a brain that hears and sees things differently,
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so you take in things differently and you give out things differently, meaning
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that you might have something you want to say in your head, but when
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it comes out, it might be totally different than what you imagined that you
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said. And it includes people who have different things. Adhd add high functioning
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autism, remembering that high functioning, remembering that autism goes from one spectrum to
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the other end of the spectrum. And so there are people who are genius
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level thinkers, but they have what you would call high functioning autism, and
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emotion is hard for them to understand, to read, to experience. And
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so if you have a partner with newer diversity, you're saying one thing,
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they're probably oftentimes saying the same thing, but because of the way it's said,
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your brains aren't meeting. So when I work with the couple, I'm
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trying to give them skills interventions that help them to get through it and understand
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what one partner is trying to say to the other. Do you find that
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it's difficult when you first meet a couple to identify which partner has the issue
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in which one doesn't, or is it sometimes both of them. Well,
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usually they've come in to me because they've identified Okay, a person has it.
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Now with adults, some will say I don't want to be tested,
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but I believe I fall under this. For an adult, I can go
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along with it. I'm like, okay, let's just work with your signs
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and symptoms. But when you have children, they need to be tested.
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Adults are concerned about a label that they'll put a label on me, which
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is okay, but I don't fight it now. So they're coming in they
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believe this is what's going on. As I work with a couple, Yes,
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sometimes I will say to the other partner, have you ever been tested?
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Because I'm seeing some things? So sometimes it comes down to yes.
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In the end, they're both using the coping skills because of neurodiversity. Is
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it something that they can be tested for at any point or is there like
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certain I want to say, certain skills that they notice. Are is there
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an early age in which they noticed it about themselves? What type of coping
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skills that they've been getting through life using. Usually what goes on is that
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a person with neurodiversity is working. They're masking. And masking is when you
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learn to walk through life like you see other people walking through life, but
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it's a struggle for you because that's not the way your brain works. And
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oftentimes there's so much masking going on that parents don't see it and teachers don't
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see it. They think the child is operating well, okay, So that
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child becomes an a oh who learns these skills. And I have had clients
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seventy years old who are just being tested, who have felt they were out
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of step in life all their lives and are just now saying, okay,
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I've found a name for what is wrong with me. They think something's wrong,
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and I correct them and say, it's not damage. You're just different,
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that's all. You're different, And here are the coping skills. So
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that's why I say, for your child, it's so important that if you
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see things that they are tested, because trying to mask for a child often
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joks up as a child who has difficulty learning. Because let's say that they
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stem, which is doing something when you're often anxious, or sometimes you just
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do it and say. What they do is their fingers like this. When
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that hits them in class, they're sitting there saying to themselves, don't stem,
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don't move your fingers, don't move your fingers, don't move your fingers.
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The teacher's teaching a lesson. They're not listening to the lesson because they're
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trying to talk themselves out of moving their fingers. So they are, but
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they think it's normal. And the teacher asks the student, well, okay,
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so what do you have to say about it. Nothing. I don't
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know. I didn't understand when in reality they weren't paying attention because they were
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just trying to appear socially. Okay, Okay, what age would you recommend
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a parent getting a child tested the first time they see a sign or a
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symptom and it's something that continues, not oh, yesterday they did this,
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but something that you see over and over again, I would recommend having your
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child tested, okay, and letting them know that it's it's not you,
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You're just everybody's brain works differently. This is just how your brain works.
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Okay. I can say that for talking about this having ki malformation, some
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of the things that the way my brain operates, especially now after having a
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stroke and being diagnosed with Kori malformation, the way that I see things and
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the way that I communicate with people is a little different. I'm not sure
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if I'm on that side, are not, But the way that I retain
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information now is totally different than it was prior to my stroke and prior to
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this diagnosis. And so sometimes when I'm communicating with people, if I'm thinking
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about too many things at one time, I'll forget what I'm trying to communicate,
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and it's like, Okay, I know what I'm trying to tell you,
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but right now I've gotten sidetracked in the midst of trying to tell you
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what I need to tell you, and then I have to come back.
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And so it's like I pick up a conversation meant conversation to go back to
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their original thought that I was having. Well, I was trying to tell
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you. Is that something that's part of this? Yes, it often can
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be. I have clients they'll say I want to tell you something, and
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they'll start and then they'll go off on something else. And usually if it's
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short, I'll let them go off on something else, and then there was
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a minute, and I'll say we were talking about C and so then they'll
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come back to it. They know that I recognize what just happened. But
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if they're going on and on and on, I'll often say, let me
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ask you something you wanted to talk about C Now? Is that still where
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you want to be? Or you, oh my gosh, for did I
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don't know why I talk about this? So they have to come back to
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the subject. They will they will go off on something else. So that
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is something that okay part of it, Yes, Okay, I definitely find
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myself, especially when I'm like so busy and I have so many things that
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are going on because I work in an urgent care facility and so there's often
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times so many different things happening at once, and it's like, Okay,
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I'm telling one person to do this, this person needs to go here.
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Someone's asked me a question in the middle of me finishing one task, and
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so it's like, Okay, what was I telling you? Okay, this
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is what we were supposed to be doing. Okay, let me finish this
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and then I can go on and do that. So oh my gosh,
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that is that sounds like a day in my life every day because I find
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so doing that so much because there's so much going on from the time I
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walk into work until the time I leave for work, and it's like,
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Okay, did I even complete a task at all? And I find myself
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that I've completed the task, but did I complete it in the timeframe that
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I wanted? Did I follow all of the steps? And usually I have,
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but it's like it's overwhelming. It's very overwhelming, and that's part of
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what people who are neural diverse are dealing with not only is it overwhelming,
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but being misunderstood. So imagine having a partner. You had a whole speech
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in your head, and now you think you've said what was in your head,
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but you said something different, and now there's an argument about to happen.
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Yeah, And so the thing is, I tell couples all the time,
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neural diverse or not neural diverse, ask for intent, be curious.
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Ask when your partner says something that offends you, don't just get offended.
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Also ask what did you mean by that? That set so many arguments because
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when your partner says, well what I meant was a B and C.
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Oh okay, well you said something totally differ. That's so important that you
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ask questions. Even those people that work with you too, they learn to
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ask questions. Don't just say well, I'm just I'm mad. No,
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ask questions. That's very important. Yeah, that's what I say. And
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my thing is, I'm big on asking questions for clarity because I know sometimes
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I may misunderstand the intent that someone had when they were asking a question or
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making a suggestion or something of that sort. Because we can always ask a
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question, but or say something and the intent be taken the wrong way because
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of the way the person heard it, and sometimes even the tone of voice
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in which something is said. And so I know I annoy people a lot
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because I ask more questions when I don't quite understand what it is that they're
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asking of me. So I will ask the question again, and I may
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reward the question just so that I can understand it a little better. Is
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that some thing that is like a coping mechanism, That is that's a coping
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skill that I'm going to ask these questions. I'm going to get clarity.
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See, that's a positive coping skill because not going through life all of your
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life and just being a little out of step, that's emotionally draining, that's
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emotionally difficult. You walk around on eggshells all the time, worried if you're
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doing the right thing now. I had a client who said he was so
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happy when everybody had to work from home because working in the office is so
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difficult for him. And he said, you know, I want to share
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something with you. He said, it took me a long time to understand
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when people say what are you doing for lunch, that they're usually asking me
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do I want to have lunch with them? He said little things like that,
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like I didn't understand that for a long time. So people would say,
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what are you doing for lunch? Well, it's eleven o'clock. I
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don't have lunch until one. I don't know, and he would just walk
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away, and then people say he's not very friendly. Well, he said,
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I didn't know what I was doing was wrong. They're asking me,
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I don't know. But then he said, I began to realize, oh,
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they want me to have lunch with them. So he'd say, I
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don't know yet, what are you doing? Yeah, let's have lunch together.
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But then now he's dealing with all of this anxiety because I'm going to
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have to have a conversation with them at lunch. Ye, So he's just
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he was just anxious all the time. He said, it worked because of
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little things like that. Yeah, And I can definitely agree with that point
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right there, because it's I have one coworker that is consistently asking what are
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you doing for lunch? And I'm like, it's ten o'clock, I have
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no idea what I'm doing for lunch, Like did you bring lunch? And
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that's usually my follow question, did you bring lunch? Are you gonna order
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something? And she's like, I don't know, I'm just hungry right now.
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I'm like, okay, well come back to me when you think about
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what it is, because I can't follow you right now. Either you're telling
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me you're hungry or you're not telling me you're hungry. Which one are we
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doing? And she's like, why do you make this so difficult? I'm
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like, I'm really not making this difficult. I'm just trying to understand how
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you need me to answer your question, because right now I don't know what
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I'm doing for lunch. I don't even know what I want to eat for
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lunch. It's not that I'm indecisive. I just don't know because lunch right
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now is not on my mind. I'm thinking about what we need to do
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to get too. Lunch not lunch are and so that can be difficult.
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That could be stressful for a person that you don't read social cues. I
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had a couple. The wife was sitting on the couch crying. The husband
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came in and said, where's the dog food? She told him through her
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tears where the dog food was. I saw them a couple of hours later,
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she was so angry, and she went on to tell me about how
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he's inconsiderate, He's this, he's that, and he said, I know
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you were crying. I asked you where the dog food was so that you
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wouldn't have to feed the dog tonight because you're upset about something. So in
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his mind, he's comforting her, he's taking something off of her plate.
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In her mind, she's being ignored. And so that's why it's hard for
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the partner of the person who has neuro diversity, because they, especially if
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they haven't started any type of counseling, they're out of step now. She
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came on so angry with him because why wouldn't he comfort me? So I
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just said to him, whenever your face, your wife's face is wet,
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hug her, comfort her. Nothing else comes before that, whenever her face
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is wet. And then that's the skills he began to use for that hug
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you. And that makes sense. It's just little things like that that I
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think we need to pay more attention to when other people are expressing, because
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sometimes not everyone can express in that same manner. I got a little visitor
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in here. My granddaughter is sneaking her. She thinks that she's supposed to
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be part of the podcast. That's okay. So she's like, my grandma
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is talking and she's doing something, and I need to see what's going on
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in there. Like if you get on the phone, they didn't want you
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until you got on the phone. Uh huh. And that's her thing.
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And anytime my phone rings, she feels like she's supposed to be part of
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the conversation. She's answering the questions and I'm like, nobody's talking to you.
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They didn't call to Her response is always huh. Yeah, she's only
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a year old, but she's smart and she's going to be my secretary one
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day, and at least that's what I tell her, So she's ready for
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that. But the next question that I have is when they learn those coping
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skills with their partner, is it more beneficial that they take it step by
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step to connect more on that level or do they just want to tend to
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stick to old patterns. Usually they don't want to stick to old patterns.
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That's why they've decided to come in, because they want to connect with their
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partner. You cannot connect with somebody you're not communicating with and so most often
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they're leading parallel lives. In the house, everybody's doing their own thing,
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and they want to reconnect. They want to do things together. They want
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to understand the differences. People who are nor the verse usually very task oriented,
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so they want to understand why this person does this or that or this,
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and so people are all I have never met a couple that was not
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open to trying new things. They may not want to try every single thing
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you're offering, but they're usually at the point where, yes, I want
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to try something. Something has to give here, and so they are open
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to open. The problem is they fall back into old habits easily, and
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so you have to tell them, remind them. You know, I asked
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the first question. I asked, how was your week? That's the first
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question I asked it, and you'll get, oh, it was great,
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it was wonderful. We did this, and the other partner will be no,
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it was not good. You have to ask what was good and what
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wasn't good, and to talk about it because they perhaps haven't talked about it,
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and because they see the world differently. For one person it was great,
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the other person was like, we just argued yesterday and talking, so,
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how did we have a good week? You know? But I always
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tell them to don't let one incident define the whole week. You argue yesterday,
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but how was every day before that? Yeah? And I think communication
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definitely does play a major part learning how your partner communicates. Do you think
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that that plays a major role also in how they begin to reconnect with one
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another. It does. People with neural diversity are very attuned to your tone
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of voice, body language, and you may be speaking in a voice that
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you think is fine, but to them is yelling, and most neuro diverse
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people that shuts them down. And so becoming more aware of that, letting
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them know when you stand with your arms folded, it makes me feel whatever,
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it makes them feel. For the neuro diverse partner to have the opportunity,
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oftentimes for the first time, to make those statements to say, I
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don't like when you use the word hope. That doesn't feel good to me,
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and so using that And I always tell people this one thing, when
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you're talking about your emotions, we don't want to say the word anger,
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mad, whatever, because there are other things under that You're only angry because
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you were disappointed or you were hurt, so let's forget about being angry.
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Let's talk about what was under that, because if we're only going to talk
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about you being mad, we're not going to really solve the issues. Oh.
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I will definitely believe that because if somebody like I always, especially when
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I was working in the daycare with kids, I would have you know,
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you have the kids and they're arguing, and they come and say, well,
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such and such did this to me, but they never want to tell
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what they did. So I would always ask, okay, well what did
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you do? What led to this, and how can we change it?
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And so a lot of the parents were like, why are you asking the
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kids that. I'm like, number one, I need to know what was
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said and what happened so that we can get to the bottom because he said
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something, she said something, But each one of them had a response to
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what was said and what was done. So we have to figure out what
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was the cause so that we can get to the solution. And usually it
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would be somebody said they didn't like the shirt or the shoes. You know
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how little kids are found and they didn't like that color. It wasn't their
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favorite color, so they're arguing over whose favorite color was the right one.
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And then I'm like, okay, so you're upset with someone because they told
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you their favorite color is blue and yours is red. Well, why are
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you upset with them because their favorite color is red? Why? I just
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don't like it? Okay? Well that's fine, but you don't have to
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be mad that they don't like it. You can agree to disagree. Well,
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Ms Vita, I don't know if I like that solution. Okay,
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and you're entitled to feel that way, but you still can't get mad and
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hit someone because you don't like what they said. It's okay. You like
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French fries, they like potato chips. They're both potatoes. One's fried,
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one's not. It's okay, you know, And as adults that's really important
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for us to learn. We're we're it makes us feel vulnerable to reveal what
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really happened. So for me to say to you it hurt me when you
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said A, B and C. We don't want to say that. We
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just want to go straight for the anger. Now we're yelling and we're screaming,
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and really this is all because you hurt my feelings, and so that's
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what I tell people you really must deal with this. What are the underlying
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things, what are the things that your partner does that you don't understand?
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Ask them why you do this or why you say that, and don't take
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on the whole burden of trying to run everything. That's often what people will
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say. Also, I have to do everything in the relationship. Well,
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now we're here to learn how to get your partner to understand what it is
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you need. You have to talk about your needs and they need to understand
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your needs. That takes time. It takes more time than the average person.
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So let's work with that. And so that's very important. Do you
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think that couples sometimes have the unexpected our unexpressed communication problems because they feel like
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the person should already know what they're expecting of them, and when it's not
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communicated, that's where the anger sometimes comes from. Now, people think their
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partners should be able to read their mind. You know, well, I've
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been with them for ten years. Should know that. No, they shouldn't.
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You have to express it. It's different if you have a favorite drink
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and you go to the restroom when you're in the restaurant, I might say,
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well, bring them us such and such that's what they usually drink.
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That's a small issue, and if they don't want it, they can just
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order something else. But to think that you are my partner and you should
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know if you say a B or C. It hurts my feelings that people
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don't always know. And we change and we grow, and so the things
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that I did ten years ago that did not bother you, they bother you
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now. I mean if we just think about our relationships like that, because
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unfortunately we go into relationships and we think, oh, that's funny, Oh
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that's cute, until you've been dealing with it for ten years, right,
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and conversations have to be had. Don't expect your partner to be a mind
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reader. They need you to tell them what you need and not be ashamed
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to say that's the other issue. I don't want to be vulnerable and ashamed
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to say I need to be hugged, I need my handheld, I need
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this, I need that. It's okay. So often I ask people what
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are you what do you need? What are your needs? I no longer
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ask people that just in session. Now I tell them to write it down
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during the week and come back because when you ask people neurodiverse are not what
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are your needs? So many of them go, oh, I don't know,
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I haven't thought about that in years. Okay, So I want you
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to think about it during the week, write it down, and then bring
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it back and then we have to think about, these are your needs?
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How do you get your needs met? Because we're all fighting to get our
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needs met, all of us are fighting to get our needs met. But
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if your partner doesn't know that's a need, if they don't know that that's
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a very important need, you might never get it met. And with couples,
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resentments kill relationships. I have couples that can tell you thirty years ago.
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I literally had a lady, say, thirty years ago when we brought
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our daughter home for the first time. I was coming in with the baby.
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He didn't even hold the door open for me. He didn't close the
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door when I came in. And that's been our relationship ever since. And
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he said, I don't even remember that I know, And so maybe he
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was bringing things in. Maybe he was nervous. This is his first baby,
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and now I'm taking care of my wife and my baby, and maybe
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his mind was all over the place. So instead of just saying thirty years
29:41
ago, Hey, I'm gonna need you to start remembering to hold the door
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when I'm coming in with the baby. She's held that resentment for thirty years,
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and she expected him to know that she's been holding on to that.
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That's wow, that's a whole and a grudge and resentment and everything all in
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one. And he would never know. And it's something so innocent, and
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he's like, you're mad at me for what reason? You know? And
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as I've gotten older, I find myself expressing myself more so, especially since
30:19
my mom died. Honestly, I expressed my feelings more so than I ever
30:25
did, because I feel like if I don't express what I need, then
30:33
I'm not gonna get it met. And then I'm gonna be mad at you
30:36
because I didn't tell you, but I expected you to do something that I
30:40
didn't tell you. And what happened to make me realize that was sometimes I
30:45
would forget to send a text in a response to a text or something,
30:49
and I'm upset at the person for not responding, but realizing that I never
30:53
hit send on that button. So what helped me to realize that I needed
30:59
to speak what it is? That I needed so that the person knew that
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I needed something from them. But if I never sent the message or I
31:07
never said anything, they could never fix it for me because I never said
31:11
anything. And that happens all the time. I gave a couple when the
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wife got home first, So when the husband comes in, you guys spend
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fifteen minutes talking to each other, well when you come in from work,
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and I said, be intentional about what you need during that time. Do
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you not want to talk about kids? Do you only want to talk about
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your Be intentional with each other. Gave them the whole rundown. Well,
31:40
when they come back came back in, the wife was angry. She said,
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he looks at his phone. He sends texts while we're talking. And
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I said, did you tell him that you don't want him to look at
31:52
his phone and you don't want him to send texts? No? Why because
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he should know that. Why should he know that we do that all the
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time. We literally dinner with people and see a text and send a message.
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He doesn't know if you don't tell him. M hm, So now
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tell him And she said, I don't want you to do that, and
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now tell him why? Because I feel like you're not paying attention to me.
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Okay, So now he's for not doing it, okay, and that
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makes more sense. I was having a conversation with a couple of friends of
32:27
mine, and I was telling them that a lot of relationships really fall apart
32:32
because of unexpected, uncommunicated expectations, and uncommunicated expectations lead to a lot of
32:40
resentment, a lot of hostility, and things of that nature. Like if
32:45
I told you I wanted steak for dinner, but you wanted something different and
32:53
you expected a different meal when you got home, I wouldn't know that because
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we just gus having steak for dinner. But you've gotten home and you're like,
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okay, well I thought we were having something else. Well, we
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talked about steak. You never said that you wanted anything else, So this
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is what we're having now. But it's one of those things that I feel
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like a lot of us are walking around coping with neurodiversity and have no idea
33:24
that we've been dealing with this for years. And I think that I may
33:31
have to do this test myself, because, you know, just to see
33:37
where I'm at on that. But I've also learned just over the last year
33:43
that I need to be more outspoken with the questions that I asked for the
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expectations that I have. I can assume all I want to, but assuming
33:55
really doesn't get me the actual result that I need that I'm looking for because
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I've made an assumption, so being very clear in what it is and also
34:07
understanding that I have to be vulnerable and that's that has not been my strongest
34:13
suit because I don't like feeling vulnerable to anybody. But I'm learning that vulnerability
34:19
doesn't mean a bad thing. It shows that I'm willing to learn something and
34:24
unlearn a bad behavior of what I grew up with. I call it like
34:30
a survival tact. And we do that. And when you mentioned the state,
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you know, I thought about if you said it to me and I
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did my face like that to me, that might have meant, oh,
34:43
no, definitely not. But I didn't say that. You could have just
34:46
taken it like, well, it's not a favorite dinner, but she'll eat
34:50
it. I've seen or eat it before, and I really want it,
34:52
so I'm gonna make it again. We didn't communicate with each other. You
34:57
didn't say why did you make that face? I didn't say no, I
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really can't do state tonight. None of that occurred, and now we're mad
35:05
with each other, and it was so we didn't need to be right.
35:10
And I think that's where a lot of arguments come into play in relationships,
35:15
because one makes a face or one does their body in a certain manner,
35:22
and it's like, you don't even care what I'm trying to tell you.
35:24
I'm telling you something and you're shrugging me off. You're not listening to anything
35:30
that I have to say. Little girl, where are you going? She
35:37
really wants to be part of the show tonight. But I feel like if
35:45
we can learn that everybody has a different personality and how we communicate is if
35:54
we can find a meeting spot, I think that that would be great and
36:00
understanding that nobody's wrong, nobody's heard, nobody's damaged or anything like that.
36:07
It's just the way that they perceive and relay information is different, and you
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can always we can always come to a common ground if we are able to
36:22
speak on it. My daughter is sixteen, first of all, a daughter
36:28
sixteen that she sends your shivers down your spine, and yes, on top
36:35
of that, she's newer. The verse Okay, you know, very bright
36:40
all of that, but there are just some things. She does not twist
36:45
the cap on anything. She'll put the cap on it, but she will
36:49
not twist it, and she believes that she's done it. And so we
36:53
spend a lot of time with me being upset. I've had bleach all over
36:58
myself. I've had mister clean all over my so I've gone to pour salt
37:01
in something and just ruin my whole meal. But I had to learn she's
37:08
not doing this to drive me crazy. She's a very sweet, kind,
37:12
caring girl, so she wouldn't be doing this to drive me crazy. There's
37:16
something in her brain that does not let her put that top on all the
37:22
way. So now we don't talk about it anymore. I just check everything
37:27
before I pick it up. I check everything before I go to put it
37:30
in my meal. I've learned she's not doing that to drive me crazy.
37:36
There's a difference in us. Her brain doesn't work in that area. It
37:40
works differently, and we have to acknowledge that with our partners, with our
37:45
friends, with our children, with our family, that sometimes they're not trying
37:51
to drive you crazy. Just isn't hitting on that and that's such a little
37:57
thing. Why can't you let it go? I just let it go.
38:01
See that when you said not putting the top on things like that is definitely
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my daughter. She's twenty seven now, and it used to drive me crazy.
38:12
But I got into the habit of knowing if she opened something, she's
38:16
not closing it back all the way. And I learned that after so many
38:22
times. It's like, okay, Ki was the last one to had this.
38:27
She's not putting the top back on it, So check it before you
38:30
put it anywhere. And oh my god. So yeah, that's one of
38:36
her things that she has. And I always know whenever she's been anywhere in
38:40
here, if there's a drink that's open, the top is definitely not on
38:45
it. If she's opened a box of cereal, it's definitely not closed.
38:50
Oh that is that's the way her brain operates. And she would always say,
38:53
Mom, well, I thought I closed it, and she did.
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If she's the sweet hair young lady that you've raised with love, she is
39:04
not trying to drive you crazy. Yeah she did it, yeah, And
39:08
that would always be her answer. Mon I thought I closed it, okay,
39:13
all right, Well, now that makes a whole lot more sense.
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But now I don't even fuss at her about it. Now, I'm just
39:20
like, Okay, just like you said, you just gone you close it
39:23
back, you check the top, make sure you're not gonna waste anything anywhere,
39:28
because you know she was the last one that had it, so close
39:30
it up or figure out what you need to do with it so that you
39:35
don't have an accident. But oh my gosh, yeah, my husband and
39:38
wife could argue about that forever. I'm just saying, no, my wife
39:45
is a kind person. She wouldn't do this to drive me crazy. I'll
39:49
just start checking things and those are the little things we need to do for
39:52
our family and friends and partners learn what it is they need some assistance with
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do it. Just saying this is what goes on. Yeah, I think
40:05
that's Oh my god, that's that was my AHA moment, especially with my
40:08
child because I never even thought, you know about that, because I've never
40:13
even heard of this before. But yep, that's definitely my child because she
40:20
definitely will not put the top on nothing, doesn't matter what it is,
40:23
and her answer would always be I thought I put it on there. I
40:29
don't know what you're talking about. I'm sorry, I got it too.
40:32
You know, how how many sessions do you have for couples, like,
40:40
is it a time limit or do they come like once a month, twice
40:45
a month, or do you do it as needed for each couple. Well,
40:50
I generally, and I work with individuals too, But with I work
40:52
with I tell them for the first month, I suggest every week and then
41:00
and see what we need to do. Now. I do have couples that
41:02
completed. They feel like they did much. You know, they've learned a
41:06
lot. They're done, and they'll just send me a text every I mean
41:09
a email every now and again. Hey, we're gonna come in for a
41:13
check up, okay, I feel we need to see you. And sometimes
41:16
maybe I'll see them once or twice, or sometimes they just need that one
41:20
talk and they're good. So I'm not a person who says you must see
41:25
me this many times. I just need you to know if we're only going
41:30
to see each other every other week, I need you to promise you're going
41:32
to do the homework, because that's the only way it's gonna work. If
41:37
you're just dropping in every now and again when troubles arise, that's okay,
41:40
But I need you to really do what it is I'm explaining to you would
41:44
be helpful. That's the only way it's gonna work. Okay, Well,
41:49
tell the guests how they can get in contact with you if they want some
41:53
one on one sessions or group sessions. I'm available at Neural Diverse Empowerment dot
42:00
com. They can also send UH an email to Bridget Green Therapy at gmail
42:07
dot com and Bridget is spelled b R I d G I T T E
42:12
Green like the Color Therapy at gmail dot com. Okay, well, I
42:17
want to thank you so much for your time. Like I said, I
42:20
wasn't gonna keep you too long tonight because you want to continue to enjoy that
42:24
piece and quiet. It's rare when we get it as moms because we're always
42:30
on the go. We're always lending a help in hand, even when the
42:34
children don't belong to us, We're always doing that. So I thank you
42:38
for your time, and I definitely want to have you back, probably around
42:45
in September, because September is QRII my Information Awareness Month. But I think
42:52
they go hand in hand together because I always try to do a show to
42:55
bring awareness about any types of brain issues. Because a lot of times we
43:01
don't talk about those things, and I feel like we need. Any time
43:07
I can bring light to any brain condition, I want to be able to
43:12
do that. So I would love to have you back in September, if
43:15
your schedule allows, I would love to come back. All right, well,
43:20
thank you so much for being here, and as always, you guys.
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You know I can never end the show without saying this, and that
43:27
is stay out of God's business. The only thing that he needs you to
43:30
do is be obedient to what He's called you to do. Until next time.
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I will see you guys, April the fourteenth, Love you and good
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night. All things ain't where All the blue from Scott's Blue, Blue from
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the North South thing well, person Percy being used a