TPP 165: 4 Listeners Share Their Stories of Discovering Their Neurodivergence as Adults
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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 episode and who are the guests?
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Welcome to Tild Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm Debbie Rieber, your host, and today's episode is part two in a series about parents who are diagnosed with some kind of narrow difference as adults, and often as a result of discovering their child's neurodivergence. If you haven't listened yet, in last week's episode I talked with Dr. Melissa Neff, a licensed psychologist who specializes in diagnosing differently wired children and working with them and their families. We talked about the unique challenges of going through this discovery process as an adult, as well as considerations regarding diagnoses, therapy, and the parenting-child relationship.
To make the episode I'm sharing today, I put a call out to the Tilt community to connect with some parents who are in this position. And today I'm sharing interviews with four different people, each with their own unique story that share some common threads. My guests today are Copper, Bill, Emma, and Nathan. They're all raising differently wired kids, and they are all still very much in the thick of reconciling their own life experiences. experience and neuro differences and figuring out how to best move forward in a way that supports them and their families. I would love your help getting these two episodes out into the world as I think these are the kind of conversations that are so rarely heard, but are so important when it comes to truly understanding who our differently wired children are and how their own journeys may unfold.
Please consider sharing it in your communities and social media feeds. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, and now I will get on with the show.
Some of my guests had already known they were differently wired before becoming parents. But for all of them, becoming a parent forced them to consider their own wiring in a different and sometimes painful way. Here's Nathan's story.
I took a little bit different path than probably most people discover their wiring, so to speak, through their kids. Um, as I've kind of come full circle through this journey I realize that I've been looking on this path for quite some time and it was shortly before I had children or right around the time I was having children I I knew that There was something different. I had always had problems attention, focus, distraction, chronic lateness. uh a lot of the classic hallmarks of ADHD. Everybody says they have it, but it's the debilitating factor that is the sort of major piece to it. And I went looking for that.
Back then, Nathan got a diagnosis. He tried different ADHD medications with varying degrees of success, but more than anything, he says that the realization that he had ADHD sparked in him a desire to become his own best advocate, to learn and absorb everything he could to better understand who he was. He says he really started that deep dive before he became a parent to two children, both of whom are differently wired. And learning more about them and getting them the supports they needed also led to his continued understanding of how his own brain works.
I have two boys. They're both uh one's nineteen and one's twenty two now. So This is sort of Looking back, but Both boys sort of express some indicators that they were a little bit different. And we started looking knowing that I had some brain challenges. We started looking into um possibilities with them. tried to do testing, tried to do things like that. Енз I learned more about their challenges. Of course I learned more about my challenges because they were very similar. My youngest he has a very high functioning form of autism. He's on the spectrum.
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