Your Kid Belongs Here
An Insider's Guide to Parenting Neurodiverse Children
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Pub Date Nov 11 2025 | Archive Date Aug 3 2026
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Description
Combining personal stories, research, and practical strategies, Katie Rose Pryal shares her journey as a neurodivergent mother raising neurodivergent children and offers a powerful narrative of advocacy, empathy, and resilience. Your Kid Belongs Here is a heartfelt insider guide to parenting children in a world not designed for them—or their parents—addressing the unique challenges faced by neurodiverse families while celebrating the strengths of neurodivergent children and parents alike.
This book outlines strategies for supporting emotional regulation and managing children’s meltdowns, anxiety, and other emotional challenges and discusses how to create spaces where children can express their true selves, as a foil to the psychological impact of masking. It also offers balanced insights into medication use, addressing societal shame, and emphasizing informed, personalized choices; and guides parents on navigating schools and advocating for their child’s rights in educational settings, including securing accommodations like IEPs and 504 plans.
With a focus on building trust, fostering self-advocacy, and embracing neurodiversity, this empowering, empathetic book—which originated from a series of literary personal essays—invites readers to reimagine how inclusive and supportive parenting can contribute to a more compassionate world.
Advance Praise
“An autistic mother provides lots of practical advice on raising her kids. Essential reading for parents, teachers, and professionals.”
—Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures
“Pryal, a bipolar-autistic mother of two children with ADHD and autism, offers an empathetic handbook on raising neurodiverse children…. a sensitive and comprehensive resource.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A heartfelt, practical guide to parenting children in a world not designed for them—or their parents. Combining personal stories, research, and helpful strategies, Katie Rose Guest Pryal shares her journey as a neurodivergent mother raising neurodivergent children and offers a powerful narrative of advocacy, empathy, and resilience.”
—Foreword
“This brave, brilliant, beautiful book empowers parents to trust their neurodivergent children and help others appreciate their children’s full humanity. Dr. Pryal provides a fresh, incisive, heart-filled perspective for all who seek to advocate for children to create a more inclusive world.”
―Marion Underwood, author of Social Aggression Among Girls
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781421453354 |
| PRICE | $22.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 248 |
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Average rating from 4 members
Featured Reviews
Katie J, Reviewer
I found this book to be very helpful. My son is neurodivergent so parenting him looks different than with other kids. The personal stories and being able to relate was very healing for me. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a neurodivergent child!
Chelsea W, Reviewer
our Kid Belongs Here is an incredible tool for any parent or caregiver trying to push past institutional barriers. Pryal does a brilliant job breaking down complex topics like securing school accommodations, IEPs, and 504 plans in an accessible way. She truly reframes neurodivergence from a 'deficit' to a beautiful difference that enriches our communities. My minor critique is that the book leans heavily on the school-aged experience, so I wish it offered a bit more advice tailored specifically to early childhood or toddlers. Still, it provides an amazing, empowering blueprint for radical inclusion and true acceptance.
Alanna M, Reviewer
Fantastic book. Has loads of scientific data but also personal anecdotes. Easy to read and absorb, especially for someone with ADHD. This book isn't so much a how to as it is a book on how neurodiverse children and families fit into the world. Its a commentary on society and where we fit into it. The author also gives us permission to make our own space, to take up space.
A lot of books about ND children reads like a list of all the ways you can get them to act like NT kids. This book teaches us how to make the world better for our kids. How to advocate, where to get extra information, how to protect them from a world that often seems bent on crushing them. A lot of (if not most) parents of ND children are ND themselves, and it is very hard to navigate the systems that we were forced to be molded by. I really appreicated that the author often spoke about her own struggles to be a voice for her children and how she has become better at it over the years.
The chapter on bullying was especially a chapter I needed to read. I have often struggled with this myself. I was bullied as a ND child, and my children have faced some of the same issues. It is impossible to fit in with NT people, no matter how hard you mask. The author has a lot of great advice about this which was a great help to me.
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