Neuro café provides friendship and support for Lisburn families

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00:00I think learning about neurodiversity helps me with my assessment and how it affected me when

00:06I learned I was autistic and why I felt a little bit more different than kids who don't have it.

00:11Although Elliot is autistic he's also ADHD he was diagnosed with ADHD years and years ago like

00:17when he first started high school his autism diagnosis was quite recent but we we didn't

00:23have support networks we didn't have none of my friends had children with neurodiversity so I

00:28couldn't even lean on home support so something like this would be amazing if more parents knew

00:33about it they could come to these things they could find the information take home a load of

00:37resources stuff that they're not having to source themselves. Sometimes parents feel a bit helpless

00:42and not knowing how to deal with certain situations and therefore coming to these events and getting

00:48the early support is really valuable to them and hopefully it will make a lot of things much easier.

00:54My favourite thing is getting to meet new people and seeing how we can help them. It has helped

01:00me to understand how other people before I got my diagnosis because if I heard that someone else was

01:06autistic I didn't know how to act around them and knowing that I am as well it helps me understand how

01:11to act around them. Just getting more knowledge about ADHD and autism generally and maybe finding

01:18strategies and how to support their children. I've got more and more people sort of sitting and trying

01:24to understand it but even people that don't have it want to know about it and understand it so I think

01:28the services have kind of broadened with that want for understanding and want for diagnosis or

01:34information. I think things like the NeuroCafe are amazing.