Kristy Forbes

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1,527 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2019 last heard Feb 2025

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Believing that a person's intelligence was congruent with the way they moved their bodies and the sound they made.

So because she had a diagnosis of

And I don't like to use functioning labels.

It's not usually a part of my vocabulary, but

She had been diagnosed with severe autism.

And at that point I had no idea whether she knew what I was saying, I really had no clue, but I said to her

I am so sorry.

I'm so sorry I haven't seen you.

And I I did what I thought was right.

And it wasn't right and we're going to do differently now.

And

She got up and she came and sat on my lap.

And leaned back onto me.

And

Up until that point we'd not experienced a lot of affection with her.

So it's a moment I will never forget and everything changed after that and she really heard me.

So this her sense of safety began there.

I think it was a number of

Maybe two years after that, that

We felt ready.

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