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

TPP 273: Author Katherine May on Autism, Wintering, and the Electricity of Every Living Thing

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

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

New York Times' bestselling author Katherine May (Wintering) talks about her new book, The Electricity of Every Living Thing, about her journey of discovering her identity as an autistic woman. 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.

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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

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others?

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0:51.0

That's Bgs. Edu. There was a woman being interviewed about being autistic and as she spoke, I mean now it's really funny because I listened back to the interview last year and I thought

1:04.9

it seems so neutral to me what she's saying now but at the time it was like these blows

1:10.1

landing on me this kind of absolute recognition and this sense that finally here was me

1:17.7

he was somebody whose experience was so similar to mine and I've never heard it before.

1:24.0

Welcome to Tilled Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring,

1:32.0

informing and supporting parents raising different and grateful to have Catherine May as my guest.

1:43.0

Catherine is a New York Times best-selling author whose titles include

1:47.0

Wintering, The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times,

1:51.0

and that just released in the US book,

1:54.3

The Electricity of Every Living Thing,

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A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home.

2:00.6

Catherine's memoir of uncovering her identity as an autistic woman set against the

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