Penny Williams

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1,352 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2018 last heard 11 Nov

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knowing that he was trying ten times harder than not any other kid, but many of the other kids there, right?
And that really took its toll by the time he graduated.
Which barely happened and was during COVID and was literally a drive-thru graduation that lasted, I don't even think it was 10 seconds because I missed him shaking the hand and grabbing his diploma with my camera.
But it was wildly different than anything that I had dreamed about.
And I felt kind of cheated, honestly.
I felt like all of this, it was so hard to get to this point.
I wanted the pomp and circumstance.
I wanted to celebrate it.
we did privately, but it just wasn't the same.
So he graduated feeling
Incapable.
and worthless.
This is what he would verbalize.
I have no purpose
I have nothing I can contribute.
It's all pointless.
Which is heartbreaking because it's untrue.
And also heartbreaking because
I couldn't even quantify how much work I put into that not happening to him.
And it happened anyway, right?
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