Maria Kennedy
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439 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Maria Kennedy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then, of course, like I said, I'm over here, where thankfully, because of the
Here, I'm now able to share what I've learned and found my tribe, as we say over here.
Because it was it was really, really comforting to actually finally realize that I'm not the lone voice shouting in the wilderness.
Like, you know, I felt like I'm that there have been times when I felt that maybe I'm crazy.
And maybe because my child is.
Is gifted, maybe because his mother was gifted, maybe we were just so far off the scope that you know that there were no other people like us, right?
And so um coming over to the West Coast, being able to work in this amazing environment and being introduced to the 2e community, which I feel everybody needs to know about, has
Enabled me to realize that yes, I am not crazy and there are other people like me, but we definitely need to empower everybody and share that message so that people understand that their children can just be gifted in one area and be neurodiverse.
So have an area of challenge, but but they should be supported and not.
like we do in the UK, kind of shoved in a cupboard and hidden away.
I still feel that we do that at home.
When I was growing up, if you were neurodiverse, basically you went to a special school and people hid you and they ignored you.
And that was how come I ended up working with kids who were Down syndrome because they went to a special school and um I went out of my way because they were not allowed in my school.
You know, they were kept away.
And I'm going, but there are other people who do different things, and I need to know them and learn all about what they do because they're slightly different to me.
And I feel that it's important that if we're going to live harmoniously in the world, that we all know about everybody, you know, and and and can understand each other.
So so yeah, I had put myself in a in a different position, and I consider myself
really blessed and fortunate to be able to travel and work with lots and lots of different people.
Definitely.
Yeah, I th I think we're I think we're limited.
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