EPISODE #101: Back from #FASD2025 in Seattle!

This year’s FASD International Research Conference was both powerful and deeply human.

Key themes included:

• The insidious impact of stigma — and how it blocks access to diagnosis and care

• The importance of naming FASD to open doors, not close them

• New research on paternal alcohol exposure at the time of conception

• The call for interdisciplinary support, trauma-informed care, and early intervention

• Heartfelt reminders that every diagnosis is a family story — and every story deserves compassion

I ended the trip beside someone whose mother had FASD — a lovely woman who relinquished custody when overwhelmed by the demands of parenting. Their story reminded me: we must humanize this diagnosis, and the families living it.

Let’s continue shifting the conversation toward hope, healing, and justice.

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