Amber Childers
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Podcast Appearances
The reason it's called a spectrum is because there are many layers and many places that you can fall onto it, correct?
This is a professional.
By the way, I have a daughter.
I have a daughter who's on the spectrum, so I really know this very well.
That's why I said, like, are you... When you said that to me, I instantly thought, like, there could possibly... And like Lala was just saying, you could have a smidge.
We hideβwomen who are on the spectrum, they hide it so well because our verbal skills are usually way above kids that are nonverbal.
And kids don't get diagnosed until they're 14, 15, and sometimes well into their 20s.
Because again, it's a spectrum.
There's many places that you could land.
There's like extreme.
And then there's, and to this day, like, I'm like, I'm never talking about that.
Like I was, not only was I- Oh, sorry.
And we're having you talk about it right now.
I was, not only was I in a horrible place in my life and then I was talking about it with the therapist and then I shared what the therapist said to me.
fucking annihilated publicly.
No, I've got a lot of fucked up things in my head.