TPP 018: 11-year-old Asher Shares His Challenges and Strategies Surrounding His Social Life
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Who is Asher and what are his closest friendships?
So any other advice for starting a new school? Just kinda be outgoing and friendly and Look for kids that share your interests.
Yeah. And if someone does reject you, make it about don't make it your fault, make it their fault. For not noticing that you were being nice to them or not repaying your kindness.
Well and also everyone doesn't have to be best friends with everyone else, right?
Yeah.
It's fine if they don't
particularly want to be friends with you, but you can still
be nice to
each
other. That's exactly right. Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and today's episode features another conversation with my 11-year-old son Asher. As I've mentioned in previous podcasts, we are getting lots of feedback from parents who say that they're co-listening to the Asher kid-focused episodes with their kids. And that they like hearing from another kid who sounds like them and is going through some of the same challenges as they are. So last week I reached out to members of the Tilt community and people on our Facebook page and asked for questions from these kid listeners directed specifically to Asher.
We got a lot of responses, many of which were all about Asher's social life, how he makes friends, what he does when confronted with mean kids, and that sort of thing. We got questions on other topics as well, but for today's episode we decided to stick with talking about the social scene for differently wired kids. If you want to be a part of the Tilt community, please join us by signing up at TiltParenting.com and join us on our active Facebook page at facebook.com slash TiltParenting. And now on with the show. Hi Asher. Hello, Mom, and various viewers. Well listeners they're not really viewing us. I thought it might be helpful to maybe start by just kind of talking about who you are right now, your age and what your friendships are like right now.
Like who are your closest friends and how did you guys meet?
Well, I'm eleven. I'll I'll be twelve in August and what was the third question again?
The third question was, Could you tell us about your close friendships and how you guys met?
Well, my best friend is called Seb.
And how did you instead meet?
I was in the fours class, which means four years old. So as you may guess, we've been friends for the majority of my life.
That's been a long time. Yeah. What makes you you two such good friends and how do you stay connected?
Well We usually skype. Every week.
Yeah, you guys have been friends for more than half your life and for the past three years now that we've been living in Amsterdam, you've maintained a strong friendship through The magic of Skype. And what is it about your relationship with Seb that has worked and like what do you guys have in common? What makes you such good friends?
Well, we're both interested in the same thing. Like the ocean and base and
So you guys share a lot of the same interests. What do you do when you're together?
We usually talk about things. Maybe play some games.
Don't you also plot to take over the world?
Yeah, of course.
Maybe we shouldn't go into that though. Yeah. I mean then they'd see it coming. So you have Seb and then who are the other close friendships that you have?
Well, there's somebody called Sam.
Yeah, and tell us about Sam and what makes you guys good friends.
Well He's alive, he has hands, but And feet too.
How does Asher keep his long‑distance friendship with Seb strong?
Right, that's a good start.
Yeah.
Being alive is always a good idea. Well, he's a friend in Amsterdam, but what do you guys do together and what what makes you good friends?
Well, we like to go to museums and things. Like Only um yesterday? Yeah, un only yesterday
we went to the European Space Center in the Netherlands.
So you guys share in interest in space and yeah. Also computer games, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Such is mine cry. And your other close friend is a friend that you met here and actually in a social skills group you guys totally hit it off and he no longer lives in the Netherlands, but you have stayed connected through some visits and also through FaceTiming.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Asher and what are his closest friendships?
0:00–3:47
2
How does Asher keep his long‑distance friendship with Seb strong?
3:47–7:41
3
What strategies does Asher use when a friend pushes his buttons or gets angry?
7:41–10:44
4
How does Asher handle meltdowns and apologize to friends?
10:44–13:59
5
What advice does Asher give for dealing with mean or rude kids?
13:59–16:51
6
How does Asher navigate group activities versus solo time?
16:51–19:37
7
What tips does Asher share for making friends in a new school?
19:37–22:42
8
What final message does Asher have for kids struggling with friendships?
22:42–25:59
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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