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For a teen who’s masked all day, the screen is often the one place the mask comes off — which is why taking it away triggers a reaction that seems wildly out of proportion. A look at the hidden cost of a high-masking teen, and why the after-school screen fight makes more sense than it seems.

You are not going to defeat the urge, and every plan built on defeating it will fail. Here is what to do instead when your hand starts moving toward the phone.

You did not decide to pick up the phone. The reach had already happened by the time you noticed it. Here is what is actually going on in that gap.

Most of us don’t lack willpower — we’re running from an area of life that feels out of control. A therapist (with his own history) on how chasing pleasure erodes discipline, and how to rebuild it one small step at a time.

Taking the device away removes the behavior, not the need underneath it. Here’s how to find what the screen is doing for your autistic child — and replace it with something that holds.

Crush a healthy special interest and you take away something that genuinely helps your child. Dismiss a real addiction as “just his thing” and it quietly costs sleep, school, and friendships. Here’s how to tell which one you’re actually looking at.

For autistic children, the screen-time meltdown is rarely defiance — it’s a transition and predictability failure. Here’s how to build limits that don’t depend on winning the daily battle.

The tablet meltdown isn’t just defiance. Autistic children are genuinely more vulnerable to screen and internet addiction, because the screen offers exactly what their wiring craves: predictability, reward, regulation, and connection without friction. A therapist who treats both autism and internet addiction explains why the risk is higher — and what actually helps parents.

A new study published in Cureus finds that medical students who use social media more than three hours a day report triple the rate of anxiety and significantly lower academic scores. The damage appears tied less to total screen time than to how that time is spent.

Applied Behavior Analysis is the most widely recommended autism intervention in the country, yet a new analysis finds 93% of ‘no conflict of interest’ statements in ABA research are false, with most studies authored by people who profit from it. That doesn’t prove ABA harmful, but the evidence deserves far more scrutiny.