Gemma Spike
speaker
14,836 appearances
31 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Gemma Spike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 31 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 9.
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You know, you're being accepted as as one of the adults.
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You're so grown up.
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The thing is when adults think of you as mature, they stop giving you the grace that you should receive as a kid.
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The kind of grace that is important whilst you are learning, and the kind of grace that is important when you don't know better.
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And they start.
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Too soon they start assigning adult responsibilities to you, particularly emotional responsibilities that you're just not ready for yet.
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And you shouldn't have to be ready for.
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Kind of comorbidity to being a good girl is often being parentified or made to take care of your family way earlier than as usual.
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We can also see how this has ties to being the eldest daughter as well.
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It's all connected.
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As children, they
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You should be free to express how you feel openly and loudly, rather than through the lens of what we think adults would like from us.
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That is one of the best parts about being a kid.
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And when you don't have that freedom, because somebody has started to see you as this good girl, this good kid, this mature kid.
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you lose out.
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You become a mature version of yourself much earlier on.
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And we know this impacts women and girls a whole lot more.
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Research including a nineteen ninety three paper published in the Harvard Educational Review
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shows that young girls often speak their minds quite freely during early childhood.
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It's something that we call ordinary courage.
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