Hey everyone, it's Debbie Reber here and welcome to a special mini episode of Full Tilt Parenting.

So I'm popping into your feed this weekend with something a little different, something that

feels to me important and timely and honestly, deeply personal. So this summer marks 10 years

since I sat on the edge of the Puget Sound on Bay Bridge Island.

I had a notebook in hand and I was dreaming up what would eventually become Tilt Parenting.

I was there on a work retreat and just kind of trying to make sense of these thoughts that

had been living in my head and hurt for a long time.

Thoughts like, what if there was a place where parents raising differently wired kids could

really feel seen?

What if we could change the whole conversation around neurodivergence?

What if we could build a movement, one that was rooted in respect and possibility and

strengths for families like mine?

So that summer on that work retreat, I started drafting what would ultimately become

the Tilt Parenting Manifesto.

That was the foundation for what I started calling a revolution in how we show up for our

differently wired kids and how we advocate for change in the systems meant to support them and our families.

So when Tilt first launched then in early spring 2016, the word neurodivergent wasn't even

part of the mainstream conversation. I used the term differently wired to describe our kids

because it felt more human, more empowering, and more accurate than the deficit-based language that

was really everywhere. I really wanted to reframe the experience of raising a child who doesn't

fit neatly into boxes, not as something broken a fix, but as a journey of discovery,

and advocacy, and deep, deep connection. So fast forward to today, and in many ways, the world

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