206: When Family Rejects Your Disabled Child + the Hurt it Causes w/ Madeline
When a family member rejects your disabled or medically complex child, whether through subtle distancing or outright exclusion, it creates a kind of hurt that’s difficult to shake.
In this episode, Madeline and Alyssa talk through the many ways that rejection shows up in families: minimizing your child’s needs, ignoring their diagnosis, designing gatherings your family can’t access, ghosting you because emotionally engaging is too hard, or outright excluding or belittling your child.
Drawing from hundreds of community responses, we explore the emotional impact of these experiences—the…
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