TPP 080: 13-year-old Asher Answers Listeners' Questions
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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 kid‑perspective episode and who is hosting?
Are there any areas of your life which you consider private and not open to discussion?
Eh, not really. Yeah. Okay. That was a easy question.
Yeah, I'm surprised. I I I consider you to be while you are very open in sharing a lot, there are certain areas that you are very private about. You're a private person while still being That's just embarrassing things that I did when I was younger. Oh, I see. Okay. Yes, we that's pretty much it. We will not discuss those, I give you my word. At least not while you're on the podcast. Yeah, I'm just joking. 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 another kids' POV special episode, or what my 13 year old likes to refer to as the Asher Specials.
This week, Asher is answering listener questions, so we'll be talking about everything from how Asher feels about having ADHD, what helped him get through. the difficult transition of moving abroad when he was nine years old, what are the qualities of a good teacher, how he tracks his schoolwork, and much more. I hope you enjoyed the episode. Hey Asher, welcome to the podcast. Hello. It's been a little while since we've done an episode. I think our last one was the post space camp wrap up. Yeah, it was. But today we are taking listener questions. I shared something in the newsletter and on the Facebook page and I got a bunch of questions for you. So are you up for doing a little QA? Yeah, I'd love to. All right.
I didn't actually put these in any order, so we'll just see how this goes, okay? Ask the best ones last. Alright, well we'll just see how it goes. I think they're all pretty good. I should hope so. Okay, here's the first one. My child really loves listening to your one on one podcast with Asher. His question for Asher is, is it hard having ADHD? He really didn't want to elaborate or be more specific than that, so I realize that he is still trying to understand what it means and how it impacts him in his daily life. He was only recently diagnosed. He really identifies with Asher and it's helped him to see there's another child like him.
I don't know. I've never not had ADHD. What's r what's hard about it is that other is that other people aren't used to people with ADHD and thus It's just harder for them. T Interact with things designed for non ADHD people.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
What my understanding is that from our conversations is that ADHD is something that you actually credit with being responsible for a lot of your gifts. Yeah. You wanna talk
about that a little bit? Well, definitely definitely People with ADHD are more creative. Right. Really though, that's just a side effect of thinking differently. You think of things other people wouldn't think of. In fact, it's not that it's not that thinking definitely makes you more creative, it's that creativity is thinking differently.
Mm. So you're saying the hardest part about it is that other people expect you to be a certain way that is That you're not. But other than that, it's not a hard thing to have. Yeah. Okay, cool. All right, let's change subjects. Here's another listener question. We're contemplating a move across the country next year and my twelve year old twice exceptional Aspie is very tense about leaving the family routines and people. What tools, experiences, philosophies, etc. did each of you find useful in your big move overseas, and what helped ease the anxiety you both probably felt about such a big change?
Well, I was really not happy about the move. I think one of the main things that did it for him is just that it was so much better in Amsterdam.
Yeah, but that took you a while to realize though, didn't it?
Yeah, and before that I was just miserable.
Well do you remember any of the things that we did The summer before we moved as we started to prepare.
No,
I don't. It was a while ago now. It was over four years ago. One of the things that we did that I remember helped us prepare was We Actually you sat down with Julie George, who we've had on the show a couple of times, and she worked at the UW Autism Center.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the purpose of this kid‑perspective episode and who is hosting?
0:00–7:01
2
How does Asher describe living with ADHD and its impact on daily life?
7:01–12:49
3
What strategies helped Asher and his family handle the move abroad at age nine?
12:49–24:57
4
How does Asher stay organized with school assignments and what role does his mom play?
24:57–29:16
Speakers
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