TPP 033a: A Conversation with 12-year-old Asher About Being a Kid with ADHD
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is ADHD and how did Asher first learn he had it?
Hey there, it's Debbie and welcome to Playback Friday. I'm going back into the archives and re releasing some of my favorite conversations from years ago every Friday. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one yet. And even if you are, you just may get something completely different from listening to it this time around. Here you go and enjoy the show. When I first started home schooling you it was
difficult.
It was difficult because I don't think I realized Like I knew you had ADHD. And I knew what the strategies were. But you didn't really realize how hard
it
was. I didn't realise how hard it was. And I I remember
But it wasn't really it isn't really hard, it's just different. It's just that's exactly right. Exactly. It's not it's not really fair to just to make a system that works for four fifths of all the people and then expect the one fifth to just just suck it up. No, you're absolutely
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, 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 is a special kids POV episode with my 12-year-old son Asher. Because one of the ways Asher is differently wired is having ADHD, and we know a lot of members of the Tilt community are dealing with ADHD in some way. We decided to spend this half hour talking about what it's like to have ADHD, what kids wish their teachers and their parents understood about ADHD, and we're also going to talk about the kinds of strategies that Asher is working on to support him with the aspects of ADHD. that can be frustrating for him.
And we'll get right to that conversation after this quick break. Hi, Asher. Hello. How are you doing today? Okay, I've got a really bad cold. I'm sorry. You still up for having our conversation?
Yeah, of course.
So we discussed that today we were gonna talk about ADHD. Yeah ADHD Does that sound like a good plan? Yeah, it does. And and the reason I thought that would be good is because I know a lot of the tilt community members, their kids have ADHD and it's a big part of our life. And so we're gonna just give a little deeper peek inside of what it's like for us and for you specifically. Yeah, of course. So I was curious, do you remember? The first time you kind of learned about ADHD and maybe made the connection? No, not actually. It was such a long time ago. It was a long time ago. The way I remember. I don't think so. I don't think we knew at three.
Yeah, it was only until I was like five that I started to get hyper focused on things.
Well, I remember you and I laying in bed in our house in Seattle and I was reading a book out loud. I don't remember which book it was, but one of the characters, not the main character, but a side character. was a big part of the book and it was mentioned that he had ADHD. And you turned to me and you said, What's ADHD? And I explained, well, it stands for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and I kind of explained I was like, Oh, sounds like I have that. Well, that's kind of what happened. I explained it as best I could, and then he said, Do I have that? And you were like, Oh Dun dun dun Well at the time we had recently gotten a provisional diagnosis of ADHD. Do you know what I mean when I say provisional?
It means that it only lasts for a until you run out of food.
Yeah. Different provisions. So it was a diagnosis that they said it's not concrete, but we suspect this and we'll need to check back with Asher in a few years and have more information. So when you asked me, do I have that, I said, yeah, well actually we think this is something that's going on. Why? Do you recognize some of yourself in this description in the book? And you were like yep. Really sounds like me. Yeah. How would you then I'm just curious before you even get started, how would you define ADHD or what does ADHD mean to you?
Mostly it means I find it hard to stay on one topic, except sometimes. And then I get ridiculously focused on it.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is ADHD and how did Asher first learn he had it?
0:00–4:32
2
How does Asher describe what ADHD feels like day‑to‑day?
4:32–8:34
3
What do teachers and parents often miss about a kid with ADHD?
8:34–15:51
4
What are Asher’s biggest challenges in a traditional classroom setting?
15:51–25:45
5
Which strategies (running, diet, fidget tools) are helping Asher focus better?
25:45–32:27
Speakers
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