Dayna Abraham
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831 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard Aug 2023
Dayna Abraham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Um, and then on the other side is by, you know, he had this crazy vocabulary.
And since he was my first, I thought it was typical.
And even though I had been in the classroom, I had been trained in gifted education, I taught gifted education, I still for some reason didn't place two and two together.
I just thought
You know, him knowing a hundred words by one was totally typical.
Um, and him teaching himself to read and him being able to build elaborate Lego sets at three was totally normal.
And
It wasn't until he started going to school and being around other people and socially that it's the the age gap really started to make a big difference.
His social gap, his emotional learning, all of that really started to show its head at like first grade, second grade, third grade.
Um and now that he's fourteen, I mean, it's it's still really evident that he is not your typically developing fourteen year old.
Yes.
They see the world so differently.
And I've come to realize now, in hindsight, the reason it didn't
strike me as odd when my child was just in my own house is that I myself am differently wired.
And I grew up in my favorite people growing up.
All my friends were the ones that didn't fit in and were misunderstood and and were brilliant, but also had these other things going on that just made them very complex individuals.
Um and again, they were my favorite people.
I've always been drawn to um
You know, I kinda like to say like a champion of misfits.
Like I have always been drawn to the misfits.
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