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My reflections on a neurodiversity talk

Last night, I went to a talk last night in Edgware, North London about neurodiversity with Ashley Blaker and Gemma Blaker, and guess what song I heard on the radio on my way home 🤔

“Greatest love of all” by Whitney Houston – brilliant song 🎶

Key takeaways from the talk were (and this could apply to you all whatever your make-up/ level of diversity):

❤️Accept and love yourself and your child exactly as you are with all your imperfections and quirkiness. It is what makes you you. Embrace it!

❤️ Focus on the present, focus on the little joys and the positive as much as you can as this is helpful. Then focus on the next right step.

❤️ Do the best you can do to get through the really tough stages and challenges of life – it won’t always be like this. It will get better.

❤️ Celebrate each stage of your growth as a parent and of your child. Even though it may be a long road you have to travel, don’t look too far ahead in the future.

❤️ Focus on what you can achieve one day at time.

❤️ You are not alone. There is a lot of support out there in the form of support groups and resources.

All we can do now is focus on the positive

Thought I would share a podcast I just listened to on the Spectator with Claudia Mendoza, CEO of The Jewish Leadership Council, as guest speaker, who provides an objective and clear-headed view about the Israel-Gaza conflict and who discusses the reality for Jewish people of the rising levels of anti-semitism in all areas of life.

What is the future for Jewish people in this country, who knows…. However, our only choice right now is optimism and hope, and all we can do now is to focus on the positive steps that are already being taken and that can be taken in the future to improve things, and in the meantime, appreciate the good that IS around us and the key support and amazing activists who are watching our back and fighting with us from all religions and backgrounds.

No-one knows yet which new government will get voted in this July – but it is so important that we ALL vote this year more than ever, including the silent majority.

As Claudia said, everything will become clearer once we see how they tackle the issue of extremism with a level of courage we haven’t yet seen with this current government as anti-semitism spirals out of control, and not just in the UK.

Definitely worth having a listen to this podcast.