Jess Weiner
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284 appearances
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1 series
first heard Oct 2017
last heard Oct 2017
Jess Weiner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're trying to change
Not only a cultural system, an educational system, a parenting system, a medical system in how we treat, acknowledge, engage.
you know, differently wired kids.
And so it's a systemic change.
And that is not a short term play.
That's a long term play.
So I have to also pull myself off of my own expectations at times.
And I understand there's a different immediacy when you're talking about your child versus talking about like an element of of, you know, entertainment culture.
They're not the same.
But I think elements are similar in that for me as an advocate and as a fighter, I've got to modulate my energy around that.
I've only got so much energy in the day to be irate about everything.
And my God, living in the world that we're living in now, every day of a news cycle feels like ten years.
So
I've got to, you know, you've got to do the self care, you've got to do the different kinds of input in your life, and you've got to also I think, you know, be very honest with yourself about what you expect to accomplish and and and manage expectations in that way.
Yeah, and I have to say as somebody who is I'm not a parent of um human children.
But um have been advocating for children for many years and knowing you as long as I have and watching your journey um with Ash and and your deep challenge of shame, of vulnerability, of guilt, of acceptance, of advocacy, of activism, of creativity, um, of collaboration.
Like I really I'm so excited that you have
leaned fully into this role in your life and are, you know, able to share what you share with people because even as somebody who is not as directly relating to the exact parenting experience, I learned very much from you in watching your dogged determination, in watching your extreme creativity and how you, whether it's like how you're choosing to homeschool or how you're choosing to handle hard moments, like
I read about the trips that you guys have on social media and I'm taking away lessons because sharing vulnerably helps everybody.
And I think in a world where parents have um, you know, I love twice exceptional, differently wired, I love all of this language, like amazing children, right?
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