TPP 045: 12-year-old Asher Answers Listeners' Questions (Special Kids' POV)
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of this special kids’ POV episode and how does it start?
Really the best strategy is kind of to meet in the middle. What do you mean by that? To have everyone else be more accepting of difference and to have you be less different and then you could meet in the middle.
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 is a special kids POV episode with my 12-year-old son Asher. From time to time, we get emails from listeners who want to know more about Asher and how he deals with certain situations. So in today's episode, Ash is going to Answer some of these questions, and we'll be talking about everything from how he handles fake emotions to how he stays positive when he gets in trouble for just being who he is. And because many listeners are curious to know more about Asher and his interests, I threw in a couple of personal questions at the end about things like his favorite movies, games, hobbies, and more.
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How does Asher describe feeling different from other kids and why does it feel positive?
And now without further ado, I'll get on with the show.
Hey, Asher Hello mom and assorted listeners.
So today we are, as you know, recording a special kids POV podcast episode. And today we're gonna be taking questions or answering questions that we've received via email from some of our listeners. And I think they're coming from both adults and from kids. Does that sound like something you're up for? Okay. These questions are in kind of random order, so we'll just answer the questions and we'll see where the conversations go. All right?
All right. Let's do the hardest ones
first. Well, I think they're all kind of hard. Okay, here's the first one. Someone wants to know how do you identify with other kids? Do you ever feel different from other kids or like you don't fit in?
Mm. First one, not the second one. I feel different in a good way.
Can you say more about that?
I don't really have that much more to say on the subject. I don't feel different in a I feel different in a good way.
So you're saying you feel different and that's not a bad thing.
Exactly.
Have you ever felt like you didn't fit in with a group of kids in a either in school or in a special program or something?
Eh, not really, but I always felt that was their fault.
What do you mean?
Like they were all weird and I was fine.
Okay. My hunch is that the person writing this question has felt like they didn't fit in. 'Cause 'cause they wanted to know how you handled that if you've ever felt that way. So
Um, I don't really know.
Okay.
All right. I don't know how I would handle it.
Yeah, it's hard to imagine if you haven't really felt that deeply before.
It's hard to imagine me being the one who has to change and not everyone else.
Yeah.
Really the best strategy is kind of to meet in the middle. What do you mean by that? To have everyone else be more accepting of difference and to have you be less different. And then you could meet in the middle.
Hm. That's a really good plan. I wonder how we could enact that in society. Do you have any ideas?
No. Take
over the world. Differently wired kids take over the world. No, no, no, just me. Right. I apologize in advance for all of our listeners.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the purpose of this special kids’ POV episode and how does it start?
0:00–1:48
2
How does Asher describe feeling different from other kids and why does it feel positive?
1:48–12:24
3
What does Asher mean by ‘meeting in the middle’ as a strategy for acceptance?
12:24–15:49
4
Are Asher’s diagnoses (Asperger’s/ADHD) important to how he sees himself?
15:49–23:22
5
How does Asher self‑soothe when he feels sad, scared, or in pain?
23:22–28:09
Speakers
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