Clinicians, educators, social workers, or other front-facing professionals can also forget that the child is often confused, scared and not feeling good about themselves. It is important as a support person to try and shift your feelings from:

Hopelessness --> Hopeful

Fear --> Understanding, knowledge through upskilling

Chaos, confusion --> Organisation, meaningfulness

Anger --> Reframing perceptions, defusing

Power struggles --> Working with, rather than against

Frustration --> Trying differently, not harder

Exhaustion --> Re-engergised, new options to try

No good outcomes --> Seeing and supporting strengths

Try shift to interventions such as:

Traditional behaviour management --> Recognising brain differences

Applying consequences --> Preventing problems

Traditional interventions --> Expanding professional options, creating a toolkit of individualised strategies

Changing people --> Developing effective strategies, changing environments

Working in isolation --> Networking, collaboration with peers.