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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

TPP 201: A Conversation with Author Amanda Stern on Growing Up with a Panic Disorder

Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Stern, author of the memoir "Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life," shares her story of growing up with an undiagnosed and unsupported panic disorder. Connect with Tilt Parenting Visit Tilt Parenting Take the free 7-Day Challenge Read a chapter of Differently Wired Follow Tilt on Twitter & Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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If you're listening to this podcast, it's probably because a child you love and care for is differently wired.

0:07.0

Are they also struggling in their current educational setting, seen only for what they're doing wrong, while longing for positive relationships with peers and others?

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like that. Through its innovative approach that aims to empower students, families, educators, and professionals

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to create positive, effective, and collaborative learning experiences.

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to learn more about what a strength-based assessment could mean for your family.

0:51.0

That's BGS. E.. I felt so alone and so trapped and in a world that I felt

1:01.5

incompatible to and I felt like I just have to act like everyone else.

1:07.3

I have to just, there's a way to be human and I'm not doing it right.

1:11.4

So I just have to sort of pretend and so a lot of my life has been

1:17.3

pretending that I'm okay that I'm funny that I'm fine that I'm you know tough and you know and it's all a protection

1:26.7

against being seen for who I really am which is anxious.

1:31.1

Welcome to which is anxious.

1:39.4

Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids.

1:44.9

This episode is actually especially relevant this week bearing in mind what we're all experiencing

1:49.9

as this is being released in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic because I know that many of us and our kids are experiencing increased anxiety right now.

2:00.0

Well, my guest, Amanda Stern, has suffered from an anxiety and panic disorder for

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