Leland Vittert
speaker
96 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 5 Nov
Leland Vittert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Nov 2025 with 1.
Appearances
And that's sort of the message that my dad taught me, which is that you can never use your diagnosis either as an excuse or allow it to define you.
And that's why he didn't tell me or anybody else until I was in my 20s.
Well, I think that's why Born Lucky has resonated in the way it has been.
You know, you're a best-selling author, and oftentimes when people say, how's the book doing?
People want to know how the sales are.
For us in Born Lucky, what I've been most sort of unbelievably humbled by is the hundreds, if not thousands, of emails I've gotten from parents of kids who aren't on the spectrum.
saying this has changed my perspective on parenting because born lucky is the proof of the power and agency every parent has to help their kids be more.
And you point out rightly, and I've always been inspired watching your show and listening to you, how dedicated you are to your kids.
This is proof of what really involved parents can do.
And you're right.
It is almost an anti-coddling manifesto.
We didn't write it as that.
I didn't write it as that.
I just wrote it to sort of say thank you to my dad.
But I think you're right that it's hit this nerve that it's telling parents something that they're not being told.
And they're not being told really how much they can do to help their kids and to prepare their kids.
Showing 81–96 of 96 · page 5 of 5
← Previous