If you’re raising a uniquely wired child, what is a good age to tell them about their diagnosis and how should you do it?

According to Dan Peters, PhD, clinical psychologist and executive director of the Summit Center, it’s important to be very thoughtful in how we talk to our kids about their unique brain profile. Let’s do it in a way that is affirming and builds awareness, and not pathologizing or stigmatizing.

These conversations play a role in their identity formation, so we need to proceed with care.

How should we go about it?