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Jess Tuff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
186 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

At that point, I was almost hoping it was diagnosed as that because it seemed so clear to me after doing so much research and checking all the boxes. There was so much self-doubt during the whole process because... I'm reading and everything points to yes, yet all of the people I'm talking to are not.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

At that point, I was almost hoping it was diagnosed as that because it seemed so clear to me after doing so much research and checking all the boxes. There was so much self-doubt during the whole process because... I'm reading and everything points to yes, yet all of the people I'm talking to are not.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

At that point, I was almost hoping it was diagnosed as that because it seemed so clear to me after doing so much research and checking all the boxes. There was so much self-doubt during the whole process because... I'm reading and everything points to yes, yet all of the people I'm talking to are not.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

Everything that I was reading, it aligned with how I parented and how I teach to meet the child where they are and to support them how they need to be supported. I felt a freedom, like it was okay to parent the way I was parenting. which I didn't have before that because she had so many behaviors growing up. She had very strange behaviors that I didn't understand.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

Everything that I was reading, it aligned with how I parented and how I teach to meet the child where they are and to support them how they need to be supported. I felt a freedom, like it was okay to parent the way I was parenting. which I didn't have before that because she had so many behaviors growing up. She had very strange behaviors that I didn't understand.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

Everything that I was reading, it aligned with how I parented and how I teach to meet the child where they are and to support them how they need to be supported. I felt a freedom, like it was okay to parent the way I was parenting. which I didn't have before that because she had so many behaviors growing up. She had very strange behaviors that I didn't understand.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

Like we would go to a softball game in the evening in the summer and she would be great the whole car ride, get her in the stroller. We'd be walking, we'd make it to the field and she would just lose it. I couldn't explain it. Everybody would look at me like I should get my kid under control.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

Like we would go to a softball game in the evening in the summer and she would be great the whole car ride, get her in the stroller. We'd be walking, we'd make it to the field and she would just lose it. I couldn't explain it. Everybody would look at me like I should get my kid under control.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

Like we would go to a softball game in the evening in the summer and she would be great the whole car ride, get her in the stroller. We'd be walking, we'd make it to the field and she would just lose it. I couldn't explain it. Everybody would look at me like I should get my kid under control.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

I would always just leave and I would get judgment for that and not staying and making her be quiet or stop crying. Your child, when she's crying because something is wrong, there's something going on with her and there's no other reason for her to be upset. So it gave me some peace, really, that it was okay what I was doing.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

I would always just leave and I would get judgment for that and not staying and making her be quiet or stop crying. Your child, when she's crying because something is wrong, there's something going on with her and there's no other reason for her to be upset. So it gave me some peace, really, that it was okay what I was doing.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

I would always just leave and I would get judgment for that and not staying and making her be quiet or stop crying. Your child, when she's crying because something is wrong, there's something going on with her and there's no other reason for her to be upset. So it gave me some peace, really, that it was okay what I was doing.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

She's nine.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

She's nine.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

She's nine.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

really is like a sense of hell like a torture to intuitively feel you are doing what's best and to the best of your knowledge to your abilities what I was doing would work she would we'd go in the car I turn on the AC and start driving and she'd be totally fine It was so confusing. There was a lot of shame. Their parents have a hard job.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jess Tuff: Empowering Autism Acceptance Through Advocacy and Empathy โ€“ A Mother's Journey in Special Education and Mental Health

really is like a sense of hell like a torture to intuitively feel you are doing what's best and to the best of your knowledge to your abilities what I was doing would work she would we'd go in the car I turn on the AC and start driving and she'd be totally fine It was so confusing. There was a lot of shame. Their parents have a hard job.