Neurodivergent Medicine

Tarot card from my favorite deck @desertilluminations by Lindsay D Williams

I have a son who is 12. His childhood sleep was plagued with nightmares as I hear is common with many kids (and maybe adults) who like he, are neurodivergent. I introduced the idea of lucid dreaming to him when he was very young in the hopes that he could learn to recognize the nightmares were only dreams and then make himself wake up to get out of them. He took to lucid dreaming like a fish in water and we've discussed it often over the years. He was telling me the other day he has several people he now sees regularly in his dreams that he has never seen in real life...how cool is that, right?

So I keep trying to explain what our truffles are all about to him and how they're not drugs (because he knows they are for grownups only) and I could never find the right words. I finally just came up with telling him it's like lucid dreaming when you're awake and the plants teach you to go to other places and with practice you learn all kinds of different things you can do from these places. I told him that's a big part of what my personal medicine was and it's something I've always done. He said now he gets it...it makes sense. I think he has some major gifts himself and I can't wait until he's older to see him come into his own that way.

I may be on the spectrum myself, but it doesn't affect my life close to the extent that his affects his own. I'd love to hear from others on the spectrum too.

Originally posted August 2019