Samantha Cotterill
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252 appearances
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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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the way they looked at the world that I didn't have.
And so it became something I just never thought was part of my own wiring.
And it wasn't until I had watched a Tony Atwood Ted talk where he was talking about the difference with girls and boys.
And he just basically spilled my whole life out to the point where it was immediately shared with my mom.
And my mom was just like, oh my goodness, like just everything to a T, the Barbies, but just everything he talked about was me.
And I thought, oh, this is really interesting because the parts that I thought made me not part of that community, it was more so because I was female and it didn't really present itself in females the way it does in males.
So right, literally minutes after I watched that podcast, I made an appointment with,
a psychiatrist and got in and got further, went through the further diagnosis.
And it was a relief in the sense that it explained a lot.
I mean, I already had the mild autism diagnosis, but just knowing that the years growing up where I felt like something was wrong with me because I really didn't want to hug my parents and I could see it pained them because my sister was quite the opposite and she was the big hugger.
And I didn't know why I didn't like hugging.
And it just really toiled with me because I felt like it was something that was wrong with me.
And I think if I had the tools to know that that's just kind of the way I am and it's nothing that's wrong with me, it would have taken away a lot of the anxieties I had about myself and the way it made me feel like I was broken.
And I think if I had known that then,
it would have avoided a lot of those years of depression and anxiety that can be really common if you really don't know that some of these things and traits are really just the way you're wired and it's not something that's your fault.
Yeah, it does look different.
But you know, and there are some a lot of similarities at the same time.
I was an avid collector.
I mean, my collections were really
odd like I would collect eraser shavings which I would spend my days rubbing my eraser on the school chair trying to collect eraser shavings to put in my little containers and I was like my little inventor side where I liked to create gadgets to try to make my life easier because I was super into like Rube Goldberg kind of situations and I would like to try to create a device that could give me water in the morning when I woke up and I would try to make things and I was
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