From ‘Sensory’ to ‘Anxiety’: Embodied States, Relational Care, and Ethical Transformation in Parental Care for U.S. Neurodivergent Childhood
Elsa Davidson · 2026
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Description
Elsa Davidson presents an ethnographic study dated 2026 on parenting neurodivergent children in the United States. The study follows middle-class families and asks how daily care practices shape parents' ethics and understanding. One mother and her neurodivergent child form the central case.
Video interviews and field material show care built on bodily and emotional attunement. Shared touch and close attention let the mother feel with her child, not just observe him. Over time her framing shifted: what she first called sensory issues became anxiety, a state made and eased together. Davidson reads this shift as an ethical change in the parent herself. Care, in this account, is a gift that transforms the giver.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Elsa Davidson |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 60 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |