Oh my goodness yes. Knowing what I now know about both my girls’ vulnerability to anxiety, and to what uncertainty and lack of control does to the nervous system of the one who has PDA, what on earth did the pandemic do to their perception of the world? And how much did we all expect them to return to a ‘normal’ that they could barely remember? A ‘normal’ they really hadn’t had the chance to learn to trust? I don’t think we can underrate the experience this had on very young, pliable minds.
Oh my goodness yes. Knowing what I now know about both my girls’ vulnerability to anxiety, and to what uncertainty and lack of control does to the nervous system of the one who has PDA, what on earth did the pandemic do to their perception of the world? And how much did we all expect them to return to a ‘normal’ that they could barely remember? A ‘normal’ they really hadn’t had the chance to learn to trust? I don’t think we can underrate the experience this had on very young, pliable minds.