TPP 064: A Single Mom's Story of Taking a Leap of Faith for Herself and Her Autistic Daughter
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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How did Brandy discover the single‑mom community that inspired her move abroad?
And then I met a lady and she was a part of this really phenomenal group of single moms that are all over the world. And these mothers, they enlightened me and just I was so in awe that they were teachers, principals, and they were living all over the world with their children and they were traveling. And I was just like, I can't. I can do this. I can really, really do this.
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 my guest is Brandy Stevens, a single mom from Texas who's raising a 13-year-old girl with Asperger's. In the coming months, I'll be bringing more episodes featuring real parents in the trenches, because I think it's important to hear how other parents Parents whose children are wired differently in a variety of ways are carving out their own path. I wanted to talk to Brandy both because I wanted to share the story of a single mom as I know we have many single moms here in the Tilt community and I know the responsibilities and day-to-day experience is different than it is for those of us who are living with a partner.
But I also wanted to bring Brandy on because she herself took a huge leap of faith last year when she moved abroad to Kuwait to be a teacher and provide a different experience for her and her daughter. I found our conversation super inspiring and Brandy's optimistic outlook is infectious. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Before I get to the episode, a quick little PSA. Did you know that some of our production costs for the podcast are being offset by generous donations of listeners like you? That's right, we're now able to outsource our final post-production cost, which is fantastic and greatly appreciated, as producing a weekly podcast is more than a little time consuming. My goal is to eventually have all the post-production tasks outsourced.
So if you like what we're doing here and you'd like to help us reach that goal, please consider making a monthly donation. It's fast, it's easy, and painful. Free and for as little as $2 a month, you can help us. To support us, visit patreon.com/slash tiltparenting. And now I'll get on with the show. Hey Brandy, welcome to the podcast. Hi, how are you? I am good, and I'm happy to be welcoming you onto the show. We corresponded via email a long time ago now, kind of soon after I launched Tilt, I think, and I know you've had many adventures since that first email back and forth. So would you mind just so listeners can kind of understand who you are and your perspective, tell us a little bit about yourself and your daughter and what's happening in your world?
All right. Um, well my name is Brandy Stevens and um I'm a single mom and I've been a single mom for thirteen years and I have a thirteen year old daughter named Brianna and she has Asperger's. But uh little bit about myself. We actually moved back to the United States here recently from living abroad in the Middle East, um, Kuwait to be exact. And I was a school teacher. It was a awesome adventure for the both of us. Um my daughter was able to learn Arabic really, really fluently. She speaks it r like fluently. I don't. Wow. I think that's one of the unique things about Autistic children that once it's something that they specifically want to do and they just hone into that that one thing and they just go for it.
And she any little thing that she specifically liked, she just goes for it. And this was one of the things that she specifically wanted to learn because she couldn't understand our cab drivers and she couldn't understand anyone else. So she wanted to learn Arabic and she's she's fluent in it and I'm not. So this time we're planning to go back and I'm actually going back as an administrator and this time I'm hoping that it would be I'm going to give it my all to learn Arabic. But prior to us going abroad, I was living here and it was just so many different issues that I had.
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