Marc Smolowitz

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 132: Director Marc Smolowitz on His Forthcoming Documentary, The G Word · 29 Oct 2018 podcast

So we had to really figure out how to do that.

How what can we showcase?

I mean, I was at a conference a couple a couple summers ago and was learning about the testing process and like just the names of these tests and like all that million.

Is so overwhelming for parents, right?

And and it's like even if you can afford the chests, well, then you get into this space where it's like there's all this new

So that's stuff you have to learn in order to become an expert to make sure your kid, you know, is being taken care of properly.

So this this this stuff is is complicated and it's it's uh long overdue that it get looked at closely.

I'll tell you a little story, Debbie, that I think is really interesting to share with your listeners.

Yeah, we we worked on the film quite intentionally for a long time before we ever went public, so to speak, meaning before we ever had a website, before we ever had a social media presence.

And that was very important to me.

Um, because I didn't wanna be be public about making the G word until I was super ready, until I knew exactly what I was trying to do with the movie, at least, you know, for the first wave of of showing it in front of the public, right?

Because I wanted

a the communities of people like yourself who are parents and advocates and engage in all this stuff to to trust us because you know it's it's there's been a whole history around mistrust here that we have to honor and kinda be thinking about.

And also just, you know, realized that you know I didn't want people to think that we were like coming in to sort of rock the boat and just be there to sort of lift the veil on the controversies that are giftedness.

And so I really wanted to show that we're walking the walk here.

So really it took two years for me to figure out what I wanted to say to the public about making this movie.

Because privately, before I was making the movie, when I would tell people I was making this movie, I have people that I like adore and respect.

Expect like roll the rise at me.

And be like, making a movie about that?

Like, what's that about?

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