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

I also have a child with autism and adhd and think they're terrible parents. Nothing to do with the diagnosis but no good parent allows their child ( a pre teen) wear a t shirt declaring that he isnt trust

Im genuinely curious why there are so many cases of autism nowadays. Is it because people are diagnosed earlier?

Me too. I remember very clearly fancying David Cassidy well before I was ten. I had girl crushes too but I knew they were very different. I knew I fancied boys. And I knew my gender was female because I dreamed of having babies when I grew up.

Groan…David Tennant…virtue-signalling prig…and a misogynistic one at that.

No, it's just that it's more recognised. I am currently awaiting an assessment at the age of 61. I am absolutely certain that my dad was autistic, as well as my brothers. The exception being my older brother who had a different dad. He shows no sign of being autistic. We learned to mask our autistic traits to fit in, often leading to mental health issues.

DD has an invisible chronic illness. Diagnosed by NHS and under treatment.
She doesnt like me to talk about it, so I don't. The only people who know are my mum and sis. My friends don't know the extent to which she suffers. I have never talked about it on social media.

Because using your kids for attention and clicks is vile.

Yes, it's perfectly normal to know who you fancy at 10 and possibly sometimes younger, so not sure why people on here sometimes make out that it's not, that you don't know your sexuality ie who you're attracted to.

And are you medicated as a result?

Who's medicalising for their sexuality?!
I was speaking in response to someone upthread saying about knowing your sexuality at that age.

Exactly. But if a child that age says they are trans, people like David Tennant would support them being medicalised by taking hormones.

Some might but I don't think many children have boyfriends or girlfriends at 9. And a 9 year old shouldn't be advertising their as yet untested sexual preferences on their T shirt.

Exactly

I don't understand why anyone cares what David Tennant has got to say about anything. I'm from near where he is and all I see is every really fucking annoying little nyaffy west of Scotland boy who always thought he was right about everything. He makes my skin crawl.

All the best to his kids.

No they don't not at 9, 10 or even 11 FFS!
Just admit your anti-trans and be done with it!

Yes, I was a bit 😕 at that comment too

I think there's a big, big difference between kids exploring who they are, and understanding adult sexuality. My daughter has said she's gay since she was five years old and has 'girlfriends', and she insists still that if she married, she will only marry another girl. Is she gay? Possibly. Can she know that now? Not in the way that adults understand sexuality.

And I'm not parading her around social media tying her into a public identity.

Nepotism pays well these days, thanks to the voyeuristic obsession with celebs lives.

Fandom has turned the crazy up to 11.

Well they can't now in the UK, thanks to Wes Streeting. But drugs are now sourced from abroad.

No they can't! FFS!
Do you actually know any trans people in real life and know what they actually do through to be able to transition?
The only children that can hormone medication are those that are intersex and need to decide which sex they feel they are more alike. It means they have both male and female sexual organs and until they were allowed the medication it was down to their parents to decide whether they wanted their child to be a boy or a girl!

Yet it's totally socially acceptable to parade a child around as being straight?
Double standards there!

Yeah, if you're straight you get comments like "going to break all the girls hearts when you're older"
or "aw, is he your boyfriend? How cute"
You never usually get people up in arms over that. It's just completely normalised. Usually by a lot of people who would be saying "you don't know your sexuality at 9 or 10!"

It is not that MN hear ND and think they won’t be able to live a normal life - it is the opposite. They hear ND and think it is someone capable of living a normal life and therefore and adjustments etc are just because they think they are “special”. And, to be fair, even advocacy groups downplay how impacted someone can be by autism - dismissing those with high needs/profound autism as simply ‘having comorbidities’.

Yes, they can. I appear to know more about this than you do?

https://www.anne.health/faqs/do-you-need-both-parents-consent-for-my-young-person-to-join-anne-health-and-start-a-medical-pathway

Neurodiverse is a word to encompass a brain working different from people's majority. It may mean Autism, ADHD or a wide range of intellectual disabilities, some of them very serious, because they are part of genetic syndromes.

Saying a child/adult is neurodiverse is the easiest way to explain a person with higher needs without providing private medical disclosure.

Where does that say anything about 9 -10 year olds?! Unless I've missed it?