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Amber Childers

πŸ‘€ Speaker
650 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

The reason it's called a spectrum is because there are many layers and many places that you can fall onto it, correct?

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

This is a professional.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

By the way, I have a daughter.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

I have a daughter who's on the spectrum, so I really know this very well.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

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.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

And as women...

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

We hideβ€”women who are on the spectrum, they hide it so well because our verbal skills are usually way above kids that are nonverbal.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

And kids don't get diagnosed until they're 14, 15, and sometimes well into their 20s.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

Because again, it's a spectrum.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

There's many places that you could land.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

There's like extreme.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

And then there's, and to this day, like, I'm like, I'm never talking about that.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

Like I was, not only was I- Oh, sorry.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

And we're having you talk about it right now.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

It's okay.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

It's okay.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

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.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

And then I got-

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

fucking annihilated publicly.

Untraditionally Lala
Orange You Glad She Showed Up?

No, I've got a lot of fucked up things in my head.