Ep 21: The Purgatory of the Therapy Waiting Room

You Don’t Want a Hug, Right? The Hilarity and the Hard of Raising Humans with Neurodiversity

Therapy plays an important role in our neurodiverse children’s lives… But let’s be real: the act of constantly driving all over to drag our kids into dingy, uncomfortable waiting rooms multiple times a week is not fun.

In this episode, Gwen and Kristen dive into this phenomenon: why parents of neurodiverse kids end up in this situation, how to make the process and experience a little more tolerable, and when it might be time to pull the plug on certain therapies (and escape the excruciating waiting room experience.)

Plus, we’ve got our usual -isms, The Last Word from our kids, and Gwen even wrote a little ditty about the waiting room experience. This is one super relatable episode that you won’t want to miss.

In this episode, you’ll learn…

[00:00] Intro

[05:51] What those waiting rooms where we spent hours, days, and months in with ALL of our kids are actually like

[09:10] Gwen’s waiting room ditty

[14:49] The things (and people) that made waiting in those dingy little rooms more tolerable

[16:17] What it felt like to question the usefulness of therapy in those waiting rooms

[22:34] The benefits and limitations of talk therapy for our neurodivergent children

[28:04] Our key takeaways from this episode on the purgatory that is the therapy waiting room and how to make it just a little bit better

[30:05] The Last Word

Get full show notes and the episode transcript: https://www.youdontwantahug.com/post/ep-21-the-purgatory-of-the-therapy-waiting-room

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