Jess Weiner

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 078: Cultural Changemaker Jess Weiner on Becoming a Successful Advocate · 10 Oct 2017 podcast

Listen, my goal in having this conversation with you is that we're going to come up with a solution for my child to make them successful in this class.

My ask of you is to work with me on that solution.

Here's what I'm proposing.

What do you propose?

And the and the nuance for me there is the first couple of sentences, which was

My intention in this conversation is to achieve X.

We are going to achieve X.

How would you like to work with me on that?

So it's a little neuro linguistic programming, but it also lets the other person know that there is no other option in this scenario, right?

We're gonna get to a solution and we're going to work together and here's what we're gonna do.

And again, I know personalities aside, that's like one example to many possible scenarios, but

Some of that confidence in speaking clearly and intentionally and not leaving a lot of room for the other person to kind of wiggle around is one way to be a successful advocate.

And that is devoid of emotion.

Like I said, all of that, you know, obviously without the packing of like feeling all the pain you're feeling for your kid and the frustration you're feeling for not being seen.

But I think sometimes we when we're advocating to an audience that isn't very familiar with our scenario or our plight or our nuances, we automatically assume that they're maliciously not engaging with us because they don't want to help.

And I just find that ignorance is like so deep and so embedded.

And it's so hard because logically you want to be like, Don't you get it?

Why aren't you helping me?

And I just have to constantly remember, okay, they are sitting from where they're sitting.

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