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Preface

Preface Petals in the Sun was written in honor of the neurodivergent children I worked with for over a decade and a half in the martial arts industry...

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Chapter 4 Excerpt: ADHD, Friendship and the School Setting

Pereira addresses “the physiology of misalignment.” As ADHD’ers, we were detrimentally placed in an environment unconducive to our abilities, which “triggers the body’s stress response, activating the sympathetic...