Penny Williams
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1,352 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2018
last heard 11 Nov
Penny Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No.
That was such a bummer 'cause I really had high hopes for that.
But it's that invisible disability thing.
It's just so hard.
And I feel like being twice exceptional makes it twice as hard.
Cause that whole seeing that a kid is smart.
And judging their capability on that.
is very crushing when you know your kid has so many challenges in being able to communicate how smart they are in the ways that the school expects.
And so we're still in that mode of struggle.
And I think that that probably happens to a lot of kids that just have the high functioning autism diagnosis is oh they're smart so surely they can perform and and I think a lot in the media high functioning autism is portrayed as very
organized to a fault, you know, lining up cars, categorizing things, you know, that sort of thing.
And that's not every kid with high functioning autism.
Some of them have executive functioning disabilities or deficits.
And that's that can be really overwhelming and pervasive.
Sure.
Yeah.
The first
Big aha for us was reading The Explosive Child by Ross Green.
And I know that you are a big Ross Green fan as well.
Indeed.
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