Becca Lori Hector
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621 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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Instead of that the autism helps us to be better, it's that somehow we're broken and we're missing a piece, um, is the way that it port comes across.
Um, and so I have issues with both standpoints on it.
Um and so really for our community, um, in terms of owning our identity, it meant getting rid of that puzzle piece.
I my very first real reaction to it um was honestly I told you so.
And that feels like a crazy reaction, right?
But I feel like I had spent well, I had, I had spent my whole life up until that point.
So for 36 years I lived on this planet going, listen, I'm different.
Listen, something's not right.
Listen, I don't understand why this doesn't work.
Why am I not like everyone else?
What like so many parts, right?
Like for my entire life.
Um, and when I got my diagnosis, not even right before that, when I self-discovered, I want to say, even um, in that moment, I was like, oh, right.
There was that relief and validation of my experiences.
And when I got that official diagnosis, I was like, man, I want to stand on the rooftop and just be like, world, I told you so, right?
Like I told you, I told you, I told you.
I told my teachers, I told my parents, right?
Um, so much that was my first emotional response.
Um, it was just so freaking validating to my experience that I
Was hadn't you know
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