Description

Transitions are pretty rough on all humans, but when there's a really important human in your life that happens to be your sibling going through a transition, it can be even tougher. We talk about a lot of things and a lot of feelings, check out this conversation with Alyssa about our siblings recently transitioning into their housing and group home situations!

In this episode we talk about:

• About Alyssa’s family, older brother with autism, bipolar, and oppositional defiant disorder,  and younger brother with autism
• Charlene and Alyssa both share their stories about their siblings moving into their group home/housing situations 
• Our feelings about having staff take care of our siblings and knowing them really well instead of us
• Our siblings and food!
• Navigating public spaces and new people with our siblings
• “Super power mode”
• Adapting from our routines with our siblings after moving out
• Relating to our friends other people and significant others and other siblings
• Outside world vs reality
• Alyssa’s encouragement to fellow siblings

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Music by:

• AlexGrohl from Pixabay
• QubeSounds from Pixabay