146: When Your Child Is Different with Sonali Vongchusiri The Peaceful Parenting Podcast

In this episode of the Peaceful Parenting Podcast, Sonali Vongchusiri of Forward Together Parenting shares her story of both growing up and being a parent as a legally blind person with Albinism. Sonali and I discuss navigating differences and finding true belonging.
We talk about:
6:00 Why Sonali didn’t find out she had Albinism until age 12
9:00 Sonali sharing her story of how she found out
13:00 Sonali’s struggles to accept herself and her disability
17:40 Sonali realizing she couldn’t parent the way other parents could
18:45 Sonali finding her own unique way to parent
26:30 Fitting in vs. belonging
34:43 The problem with pretending there is no difference
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