Samantha Cotterill
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252 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2019
last heard Dec 2019
Samantha Cotterill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So when we would move.
I would move to that new location and I would try to be Beth and I would talk like her and I would
her clothes and I'd be good for about two weeks.
And then I'd start flipping, but it got so, and then I got so skilled at it that I can, even as an adult now, I kind of can read the room and I can adjust.
Like I would,
I would adjust myself growing up, like, all right, I'm in a group where they don't like to joke so much.
So I'm going to tone it down a bit and I'm going to talk in this kind of tone.
And you see it pop up now everywhere, that term of chameleon, but it really is perfectly explained, describes how I navigated getting through those years of middle school and high school was I was an expert at doing that, but
The downside was that I started to kind of lose sense of who I was.
And I always felt like the real me was just not a cool person to hang out with.
And my self-esteem got really low.
And it took a long time for me to really see that I needed to stop.
worrying about what other kids thought and see that there's a lot of beauty in who I am.
And it just needed to find the right people that got me and that I got them and that there are some amazing relationships out there.
I just have to be myself.
Yeah, it was such a relief.
Absolutely.
I think as I got older, then the more specific diagnosis came in terms with the Aspie, the Asperger's stuff.
And it didn't really come out for a while because the people that are close to me that do also have Asperger's are male.
And there were certain aspects of
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