David Tennant's wife, Georgia, reveals they have several neurodiverse children

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Explains a lot, doesn't it...

"We've got a lot of neurodiverse kids"

David Tennant's wife Georgia reveals several of their children are neurodiverse as she opens up on navigating family life | Daily Mail Online

hopefully, kids exploited for their parents’ socials generally rebel hard

Did you miss their strapline? At the bottom of every page? And the fact that the child does not have to consent unless they're Gillick competent?

Gender-affirming care for trans+ people of all ages.

Nasty. She was an actress in her own right before marrying David.
Unless you want to pretend that was all down to her Daddy, couldn't possibly have done it on her own merits 🙄

For all ages, gender affirming care - doesn't say anything about medicalising them?

‘Intersex’ does NOT mean they ‘have both male and female organs’. The proper non-offensive term is ‘variations in sexual characteristics’ or ‘disorders of sexual development’. They are very rare - 0.018% of the population. And everyone with a DSD is either male or female. You can’t have both sets of organs as they develop from the same embryonic tissue and can only take one or the other path - it is the progress down that path that can be disrupted. Parents can’t decide whether they are a male or female - that was set at conception.

Why not say ‘additional or different needs’ if the goal is to protect privacy?

‘Neurodiverse’ includes dyslexia, dyscalculia, and developmental language delay.

Backtracking a bit, are you? Hormone treatment is medicalisation.

They're very proud about treating children:

https://www.anne.health/articles/response-to-telegraph-puberty-blockers-august-2025

It doesn’t explain their needs at all though. And when people say ‘they need x because they are ND’ it implies that by meeting those needs you are meeting the needs of the rest of the ND population. The needs as someone with a very high IQ and autism are very different from someone with learning disabilities despite HR ticking the box saying they’ve done HR training and are now inclusive because they had a training session with the former discussing his ‘lived experience’..

Because neurodiverse is a kinder word than saying "additional or different needs" It encloses a whole range of problems, from high functioning to severe, without having to give private medical information.

Yes referring to what was said on here, not what I thought. Maybe look at context.

Maybe learn to write more clearly?

Who said that? Because it wasn't me. I don't think kids should be paraded in any sense. I hate the whole discourse around 'girl dads' keeping their princesses away from boys and little boys 'flirting' with girl kids.

Nepotism is at its most powerful in getting that first ‘break’, after that you really need to have some skills to succeed on your own. It is likely Georgia had both - getting opportunities as a child on shows alongside her father, plus the ability to act. Skills, as well as interests, often run in families.

Am I the stand-in for 'society' here? There's this whole thing called feminism....

Then how is it useful?

Why would you affirm’ a child into harmful sex stereotypes?

Same pal, same. So fucking many of these guys in the West of Scotland. Annoying wee know it all shites!

I struggle with the idea that the terms ‘additional needs’, ‘different needs’ are unkind or problematic. The problem is that people hold pejorative and discriminatory attitudes towards the people we are referring to

The focus on the labels, at best, skirts around the real problem and, at worst, reinforces there is something wrong with people for whom this label refers to.

We should be challenging attitudes rather than coming up with new/different terms and labels.

This. It's almost ALWAYS this

How weird that people use compulsory heterosexuality to argue against a view that pre-pubertal children don't necessarily know their sexuality.

I agree LD has many causes but it is a form of neurodiversity. Neurodiversity simply means diversity in ways of thinking/brain operation so anything that affects that results in neurodiversity. This includes schizophrenia, depression, age, left handedness, dyslexia, brain injuries, epilepsy, dementia, cerebral palsy, genetic conditions (including Down’s Syndrome), developmental coordination disorder, adhd, autism, dyscalculia, other IQ, FASD, malnutrition, impact of drugs, etc etc.

The collective term for autism/adhd/dyslexia etc is ‘neurodevelopmental disorders’. That is very distinct from the concept of ‘neurodiversity’.

I'm glad someone gets what I mean! Wouldn't have given the wee dullard the time of day.

It stops marginalising people socially when they are referred to as "people with additional needs" as often happened in the past.

Neurodiversity is not a medical word - doctors and specialists give specific diagnosis, it's up to the person/parents if they want to keep that information private within family and close friends and use the "neurodiverse" word for a socially wider setting,

I find her extremely grating. And I have little time for parents who use their children for attention like this - it's bad enough she's hung off David's coat tails for years.

Simply using a new word to describe something just replaces the old word in people’s minds, it doesn’t change them.