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Sticks and Stones: Teachers Inability to Understand Leaves Lasting Consequences

• Leta and Amanda • Season 2

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This week, thirteen years old co-host, Leta, gets a bit personal as she discusses how her dance teachers words left deep wounds. Coming at the discussion from her invisible hip issues, Leta and Amanda discuss how dance teachers never fully understood how Leta's hip works. They talk about how dance teachers inability to fully comprehend the extent of Leta's hip problems have led to issues; from pushing Leta to the point of Leta hurting her hip again, to convincing Leta she will never be able to dance. Even the love and acceptance from Leta's SoleTalk Family isn't strong enough to fully heal the wounds left by others.

We end by talking about how everyone needs a safe space to dance. A place where teachers take the time to understand the needs of their students.

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Leta:

Hello, this is Leta, and this is me and my mommy's podcast. And there's my mommy, and there's me, and I'm just talking about this stuff. And there's me tap dancing, because this is a tap dancing slash autism podcast. And there's a bunch of animals, and wallby trying to eat my hair. And there's a bunch of sand and ocean. Also, there's all the SoleTalk stuff. I love all my SoleTalk friends. All that going on, so old. Yeah, it's like life's coming to an end. Oh, and also, there's my boots. My boots are amazing. Also, there's me, trying not to have a panic attack. Also, this is a podcast about me. My autism, dancing, and blah, blah, blah. I'm just ADHD and this is it. Also, there's my cute, adorable puppies. Hello, yes, welcome to today's podcast. We are redoing this because we were, now the rapper told that we probably shouldn't have went that because it's not about talking about hip problems because I am a child with hip problems and it's, you know, it's, after the second recording I'm trying to do, this was Jack finding plastic he shouldn't have. And then, it went with mothery doing everything again, because Also, welcome to Leta tap styles. That is my mom. This is me. My mom is amazing. I love my mother.

Amanda:

Aw, you're the best child and depending on the day, that's the best pity. So we did try to record this episode earlier about your hip. Um, we went down a rabbit hole where we kind of said some things and by we, I mean me. Um, to make things better during lunch. I was listening to Hollywood gossip YouTube stuff and decided we were changing. Go ahead, ask your question.

Leta:

Jack, you have anything to say?

Amanda:

Jack is pitbull.

Leta:

rapper.

Amanda:

Okay, can we get back to the podcast? What do you have to ask on that one?

Leta:

Uh No brain right now.

Amanda:

Are you trying to figure out how I went from Hey, let's call this a wrap on the podcast to Hey, I was listening to Hollywood gossip or watching Hollywood gossip YouTube and have a totally different idea of what we're doing podcast. You have to speak into your microphone. Okay. I know you like hugging your into the microphone into the microphone.

Leta:

Thumbs up. Hi,

Amanda:

So the whole thing was we were doing this whole, uh, deal about your hip and I was going in one direction with it. We said, that's a wrap. We've got a podcast. The pity is going to kiss you to death right now. If people are not watching this on YouTube or on Spotify. Um, and then that's when. I stopped, I went, we went and ate lunch because we were going to do other things. And, uh, fun fact, I was watching Hollywood gossip podcast on YouTube and went, yeah, not the way I want to talk about your hip. So, let's totally throw out everything I said about the hip earlier and go in a different direction. How does that sound? Oh yeah. So mommy was watching, mommy, that's me, was watching uh, Hollywood Gossip YouTube during lunch and uh, some stuff was said and I went, ah, screw what we had for the podcast. Let's get back down in the podcast studio and redo this week's podcast because I think we could come at it a different way.

Leta:

mean, that was funny, though. Hehehehehehe,

Amanda:

Here's what they were discussing. Because it was the Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni stuff and someone mentioned words hurt and those words cut deep. And those wounds stay with you a long time. Uh, do you disagree Leta?

Leta:

I I I talked to Felix. Felix! Let's see, uh, enough times

Amanda:

How many times have you heard a teacher say something about your hip, especially when it's growing, especially when it's hurting?

Leta:

to, uh, yeah. But I didn't wanna think about it if you if you ran him into a wall enough times it doesn't fix it. It just leaves it really bruised. slightly pink.

Amanda:

Your hip. How

Leta:

Now the skin outside the hip.

Amanda:

many times were you running your hip into a wall?

Leta:

Uh, we, we, we don't say what I, what I did, what I did, what I did after. We don't, how about we don't speak about what things I accidentally put myself into at nine.

Amanda:

Um, how do I want to put this? Your teachers have often questioned whether or not your bad right hip is an actual thing. Have they not?

Leta:

Question. Yeah! Let's go with question. Yeah, I'm doing air quotes. Let's go with question. Yeah, I'm doing air quotes near the question.

Amanda:

You're doing air quotes near the question because

Leta:

Let's see, in their mindset, it's the truth, and nothing but the truth, that I don't have one. And once I get here, the thing pop! Because mostly it's, so, so, it, when I do certain movements, it goes pop! And that's actually a nice good feeling, because, when, when, when your joints don't really feel good, it's The popping makes it feel better.

Amanda:

when you grow, cause I mean, your hip doesn't hurt,

Leta:

I turned into JELL O!

Amanda:

turn into jello. That, that is one way to describe your legs. Um, you grow. You don't just incrementally grow. It's like, foof, overnight.

Leta:

int What's int What's int int

Amanda:

Some girls, a majority of girls, theoretically speaking, according to papers written about boys, uh, you're like, of course. The paper's all written about boys. Some girls supposedly grow very, very slowly and they'll grow two, three inches over the course of an entire year, not over the course of an entire. Now you're like, I look,

Leta:

doesn't sound right. Isn't I taller

Amanda:

you tend to, and, um, I do not have this pulled up, but I want to put the Saturday February 1st pictures up against the Sunday pictures. I wish you had been wearing your hat in both pictures. Uh, because I know you and Chloe are not both standing up straight, but. As straight as you could be, but, um, I'm looking at the pictures right now on my phone and, uh, either things, yeah, no, I think you were taller than you were the day before that. That's what I'm saying. And I'm going to put that in with, like, probably getting your cousin out of these pictures, but I think you were actually taller Sunday than you were Saturday. I'm sure. People who were there can disagree with me. I don't think I'm wrong. I'm putting up pictures because I really do think you were slightly taller on, uh, Saturday. I wish we had 2 pictures of you with cherish because I have you right by her. I do. I think or Sunday. I think you were slightly taller on Sunday. You grow. I went down a bunny trail here. We're going to get rid of this part. No, you grow fast and you grow hard and your legs become jello. They become absolute positive jello. There is no

Leta:

to just be my legs.

Amanda:

Okay. Your entire body becomes jello.

Leta:

isn't supposed to feel like JELL O too.

Amanda:

You have not been really allowed to quit chewing on your microphone. You have not been allowed to, you haven't been allowed to dance for like the last two weeks because you can't walk without falling because your muscles are so loose from the gross burt, let alone dance, correct? Yes. Um, how do I put this nicely? When you are, have been in other dance studios, they almost without fail come up to me and go, Leta's hip can't hurt. Leta, I don't know why she's, Hobbling, because you do have a hitch in your giddy up a lot of times, especially around a gross bird. I don't know why her legs are shaking. She must not be working out enough muscles. Don't grow the way you're telling me. They grow Amanda and then they're

Leta:

You're not a doctor!

Amanda:

they're telling you. A lot of stuff. Um, what are some of the things that teachers have told you when you're at this point?

Leta:

You're faking. You're faking. You're mentally faking. I said you were limping and you just corrected it. Stop faking. That's mean to people with a real Yeah, I'm putting air quotes here because I do have a real physical disability. And you don't! I also put air quotes on the you don't. I know none of you are listening on if those are. Things that go in your ears can see me sub.

Amanda:

You're like, but they're there when you have grown and you are having problems standing, like, the last 2 weeks, you have actually had some difficulties walking you've been. Growing so fast that you have outpaced your carb intake and so you have been like, what are some of the things that teachers have told you when you've been like,

Leta:

You're lazy, you're lazy, you're lazy. Something else, but I, I, I, I, I don't remember this something else. Oh yes, stop being a baby, while they're over there being a baby about, oh no, I, I, I hit my toe. Yeah, it, it hit a freaking ball of air and that air pressure isn't, isn't that hard in that ball.

Amanda:

can we put a little caveat on here that it's never been the syncopated ladies or anyone associated with them that has said that you have. I want to make sure that everyone knows in no way, shape, or form are you talking about your mentors, anyone associated with your mentors, anyone you love with your mentors, your mentors. Have pushed you, like, no one with that group has told you you're faking on your hip. No one with that group has told you you're faking when you've grown and you're having problems standing up, have they? Ms. Chloe, Ms. Maud, any of the ladies ever told you to quit faking your hip?

Leta:

I can't see it on Zoom. Wait, can I see it

Amanda:

No, but like, when we're together, people are looking to make sure you're, they're trying to gauge how much you're limping, because nobody wants you hurting that lip, or that hip. Yeah, no one wants you hurting that limp! Eugh!

Leta:

Oh, I also had fun watching everyone. Guess, guess reasons. Guess, guess reasons.

Amanda:

But I want to make it very clear that we are not talking about certain people, because we, we don't want them thinking Because you have lied to them. Because they will snatch you bald headed and make you sit the freak down, won't

Leta:

I have one thing. I'm a good actor.

Amanda:

But the reason you have lied is even though you absolutely

Leta:

Okay, in my defense, they ask, Are you in pain? In pain. Then if you're embarrassing since 11 months old, that tends to not be there to fail. So when they keep asking me, Are you in pain? They don't limping,

Amanda:

Oh, okay.

Leta:

say,

Amanda:

Hold on. Hold on. So you're saying, and we'll circle back to the other thing, that you're, it's like, I'm not lying because I've been used to this pain my entire life. So therefore, I'm not lying. I'm just not in pain. I am, however, limping, so it's a different story.

Leta:

No, I was gonna say, if they want me to not accidentally lie, they should probably realize! Even though I got over taking everything too literally, I still take some things too literally. Like,

Amanda:

But, okay, but what I'm trying to get here is that group is not involved. We want to make it very clear that group is not involved. Correct?

Leta:

like, seriously. Like I still think something's too literally and the paint pot is one of those?

Amanda:

wrap up the little, but Here's the thing that I want to get back to. You absolutely, positively know that no one with the Ladies, no one with that group, no one associated with that group. If you go, I'm limping. I need to sit out. Can I just sit and watch for a minute? No, 1 would say a thing. Would they.

Leta:

Yes, but I am a doctor and I do not not there. I

Amanda:

but here's what I was getting at. How much of that has been drilled into you by teachers who refuse to listen when you were limping or you said you were in pain or something hurt?

Leta:

get get get get get get a chunk in mental scars.

Amanda:

How many times has it been drilled into you not to say I, you are pushing me past my brink when it comes to a teacher telling you, you need to stretch that hip further?

Leta:

I'm too much in my comfort zone. Yeah, I put an air quotes there because I don't think comfort zone is doing anything, using my It's my hips!

Amanda:

You are, let's, let's talk about that real quick. Um, could you use your back more to move your leg than most people do? Because when you were 11 months old listeners of the podcast will know this, um, people who know you in real life will know this. You fell down trying to do pure wet because that was smart in our kitchen. You popped your hip out a joint.

Leta:

Okay, in my defense, I'm not the one who allowed an 11 month old autistic baby to watch Phantom of the Opera over and over again and didn't think about the consequences.

Amanda:

Okay. Ignoring that fact. Um, the best medical advice we received, which was stupid. But I listened to doctors because I was stupid was, um, hip dysplasia tends to fix itself and baby. So, let's see if the hip dysplasia would fix itself in you because you hadn't fully popped it out. It was only partially out. Maybe it'll go back. It never went back and joint the right way that has caused it to where you do not have full motion of that hip full range of motion

Leta:

if any of you people are thinking it, no, I'm not! You're going into surgery to get a new hip. Also, I'm pretty sure I would like to not know whether or not I would completely and totally have a panic attack.

Amanda:

Well, but part of the reasons we have not done that before people ask is you were so young, um, these by time they realized they had messed up, you were pushing 6 and they're like, so the option is we PT the heck out of this for a few years, or we put in a new hip every time she grows and option a sounded a lot less. Annoying than option B, especially when you're really young and you're growing every five minutes. And I'm like, so how many hip surgeries are we looking at in a year? And they're like, well, it could be up to five hit replacements in a year. Let's not and say we did you agree. Kate, you have to talk, but that you have had this hip problem since you went into dance and I have told each and every one of your teachers since you went into dance. Here's her hip problem. Here's what her hip can and cannot do. And every single one of them is always so excited when they have somehow pushed you to the point you have re hurt your hip. And they come out and they tell me how great it was that they hurt, like, but they never say they hurt your hip, did they, Leta?

Leta:

They say I'm mentally limping. And faking.

Amanda:

No, and I've had that too, but like. With hip hop, not your current hip hop teacher, but other hip hop teachers, I've had to watch you really carefully because hip hop is aggressive on that hip. I've seen you limp into class and I've been like, been watching in class through the window and the teacher's not. You know, having you hold back and then you limp out of class and the teacher's like, Leta doesn't limp. And I'm like, really? Because what the,

Leta:

Oh, and yet they say I, and yet they said I was holding back.

Amanda:

you know, when you're limping, it's kind of hard to do things the right way, but back to every time they said things like you're holding back when you physically. Um, I can't do it. What did that make you feel like?

Leta:

Let's see, I D d d d What point of I don't do failures is they don't understand?

Amanda:

Okay, I'm going to ask you a question, and I want your God's honest truth. And if people know you, they're going to disagree with the answer to this question. You are a member of SoleTalk. You are the member, a member of an international youth tap dance company, correct?

Leta:

Yeah.

Amanda:

That part no one's going to disagree with me. Leta, do you belong on SoleTalk?

Leta:

No.

Amanda:

Leta, can you tap dance?

Leta:

Let's see, I can tap dance as well. As I could on 8.

Amanda:

Are you a good tap dancer?

Leta:

Let's see, like a good tap dancer, yes. Good tap dancer. You're actually a good dancer. Hell no!

Amanda:

Are you decent at hip hop?

Leta:

No.

Amanda:

Are you decent at jazz?

Leta:

No.

Amanda:

What is the biggest thing holding you back in all those?

Leta:

Mostly my hip, because there's a lot of pliés, and a lot of feet on the right! Okay, this whole right leg is like a giant friggin rusty doorknob!

Amanda:

I mean, you're not lying on that one, but let's go back to the tap. Cause I am going to put video of you tap dancing over this. So if you're watching on Spotify video, which Spotify now offers video options.

Leta:

how bad the tap dancing is.

Amanda:

if you're watching on YouTube, it'll be on there. If you've been on your Instagram, it's on there. You so I'm going to ask you again, but a little differently, Leta. Why don't you think you belong on SoleTalk?

Leta:

Cause I can't go as fast as them, and I can't do as much stuff on my right as them, and I can't really go as high as them, and I can't actually really physically do what they do really at all.

Amanda:

Has any adult in SoleTalk ever, ever said you are not good enough?

Leta:

no.

Amanda:

I am going to ask a strange question, but this makes sense. Has any adult in SoleTalk ever been nominated for, I don't know, an award our listeners might know about?

Leta:

none of them are famous.

Amanda:

Okay, Emmy nominated Chloe Arnold?

Leta:

Yeah, but she's not famous. She was nominated, but she's not famous. She was

Amanda:

Hi Chloe, you're not famous.

Leta:

but she's not famous. Really,

Amanda:

When it comes time to dance competitions and dance conventions is, I don't know, Orialis, Giselle? So, uh, Maud,

Leta:

just there. Wait, who else, what are you gonna say?

Amanda:

Maud, Miss Maud, all of those, do they maybe, I don't know, happen to be very popular as far as coming to teach people?

Leta:

I don't know. I'm not

Amanda:

is yes.

Leta:

you realize they also have normal, non famous people do those, too, right?

Amanda:

Yeah but I'm saying, as far as every single dance teacher you have ever had, who has constantly said, you're not good enough because of that right hip, you're not good enough because of your autism, you're not good enough because of your dyslexia, do you understand.

Leta:

Who said the dyslexia?

Amanda:

You know who.

Leta:

of The answer is on my face.

Amanda:

Okay. None of them have ever. Okay, how do I put this nicely? They would all love to take classes from Maud Arnold. They would love to take classes from Chloe Arnold. They'd love to take classes from Giselle.

Leta:

this is Miss Maddie, Miss Chloe, and Mr. Sal.

Amanda:

Okay. Let me try explaining this to

Leta:

Well, except they should definitely take a class from Mr. Broil, because they are very bad at dance history. And he would knock them into sense. Because they are very bad at black dance history, they are very bad at women dance history, even though a good chunk of them are women, and they are very bad at just dance history altogether. Mr. Broil needs to knock them both heads and set them straight.

Amanda:

am laughing because you are probably very true. Um, here's what I'm trying to get at. The people. Who really should be the voices you're listening to. The people who are, you know, jet setting around the world because people like them that much.

Leta:

famous.

Amanda:

You're definitely not famous. Okay. Um, the people you have known the longest in your dance life. Absolutely, positively, 100 percent love you, and they think there is nothing wrong with you, and they are not the ones sitting there telling you you don't believe, uh, belong on SoleTalk. The dance teachers are the ones telling you you don't belong where you are. Which ones are you listening to?

Leta:

Don't make me say them. I don't want to die bald headed.

Amanda:

Uh, you're saying it. Which ones are you listening to? Are you listening to the naysayers? No, but I mean, I have a reason for this. Go ahead and be honest on who you're listening to.

Leta:

They're people not from SoleTalk. Okay, give me one person that

Amanda:

It's easier to listen when someone says we're horrible than it is when someone says we're good, isn't it?

Leta:

me twenty.

Amanda:

I'm not going to give you one person, but what I'm saying here, because this is what I'm getting at with your hip, the not believing in your hip, the not believing you can dance, the not believing all this, there, but you have a whole group that believes you can do anything you set your mind to. I'm going to put in here embarrassing hugs because that's the important part here, But it's only embarrassing. Because you know them

Leta:

And I'm pretty sure it's somewhat embarrassing for that because he's very bad at his job of embarrassing his child.

Amanda:

because you know with them and this is completely wrong, but because you know, with them, you don't, you know, them as them and that's not completely wrong. That's good. And let me restart this. I'm going to put a video in here showing us some stuff. No one on the sink. Ladies, no one on SoleTalk. Everyone would be. Very upset if they ever thought they were the reason you did not believe in yourself and you flat out know that, but on the other hand. I don't think any of the dance teachers would be upset to realize that they are the ones who are causing you not to believe in

Leta:

Okay, how about we not say anything since the drama is starting, so you'll see what I'm gonna say.

Amanda:

Okay. Let me rephrase that. Um. I think a lot of those dance teachers who said the things they said, who acted the way they acted, they feel like they are trying to help you by telling you that you're faking with your hip. They think that they're trying to help you by telling you you're faking when you're unsteady after a gross burn.

Leta:

What next? The grown ups on Sesame Street that are helping Rosita use Rocko as a means to sell Elmo's cookies and toys and stuff are helping. Definitely and totally not making Rosita a super villain when she grows up. Yeah, there are multiple quotes on that. You better done well know what I am talking about. I feel bad for Elmo.

Amanda:

those of our less audience who do not know what's going on, Rosita, a monster on Sesame Street, has a pet rock that obviously likes cookies, and any time any time Elmo and Rosita are together and Elmo wants a cookie, Rosita's rock, Rocco, needs the cookie, and the adults explain to Elmo that Elmo needs to give Rosita the, or Rosita's Rocco, the cookie, because Rocco needs, Elmo needs

Leta:

can't eat cookies. Also, they had a fake wedding for a rock actually at the wedding. Rock was That Elmo got none of.

Amanda:

And yes, this does link back to what we're saying, because Elmo, why would you trust the adults after they continuously told you that Rocco deserves the cookie and not you, the Elmo monster?

Leta:

I just don't trust human being people. Oh, except the ones I already know.

Amanda:

And that's the whole thing with the hip thing, because it brought it up as we were doing stuff, we were talking more about the ableism to it, because it is ableism. There's no ifs, ands, or buts when they're like, no, no, your hip can work regular.. And that will be bleeped. Um, but they do, they say, sit there and go, your hip works normal, Leta. Why are you acting like your hip doesn't work normal, Leta?

Leta:

There isn't a circle attached to the weird rectangle. I'm pretty sure at this point, it's like some, some, some, some, uh, Some like, like the shape of a stop sign, but if that stop sign was round.

Amanda:

Or there are the days that you come out and a teacher will be so excited because I got her to extend and you can see the pain in your face. And I'm like, we're going to have six months of a backslide on how her hip is because of what you just did. And the teacher's so proud. That they extended you to the point of break in

Leta:

Yeah, then I'm, I'm not proud at all because, Hey! I can't really leave the couch without pain. B, I can't leave the couch without pain. C, I'm not used to feeling pain below my upper body and that is weird and that is wrong and that is wrong!

Amanda:

and we were discussing that you use your back like up. You should use your lower back ish to move your legs, your glutes and all that you, you use almost all the way up to your shoulders to move your right leg because of how badly your right hip is.

Leta:

Oh yeah, also if they do that, th th this thing in my birth my mother brought up, Let's just say, When I go to sleep, I don't sleep with no pain! I sleep while being able to feel the pain! And if I have a dream, it's a dream!

Amanda:

Once more, no one with SoleTalk, affiliated with SoleTalk, or even affiliated with the people affiliated with SoleTalk has ever done this to you. I want to make that clear. But what we had started with, which was more of the, um, ableism, I mean, there's no ifs, ands, or buts, it's ableism, uh, turned into after me listening to this going, we're doing Tap Tuesday on how much, you absolutely love tap, but you absolutely, No matter how much, I mean, I was talking to someone from an unnamed shoe company that was like, Oh my God, we just love what she does. She is so good. And I'm like, she won't believe you.

Leta:

Like I'm not. I mean, why lie?

Amanda:

We have friends in the podcast community who are like, Oh my God, I saw Leta. She is so good. And you won't believe them. Will you believe them?

Leta:

I'm not lying!

Amanda:

And that's what I think adults need to understand. Teachers need to take away from this podcast. If they take away anything is your words. have long lasting consequences.

Leta:

Oh yeah, and also, Parrot here, Parrot repeat, Parrot keeps him head.

Amanda:

That's it. These, these kids you're working with, be they neurotypical, neurodiverse, be they able or differently abled to kind of remember those words for a lifetime. Do you want to be, and I think that's what actually does break my heart about almost every single one of your teachers is they honest to God felt that they were doing what was right for you.

Leta:

You mean breaking my spirits and then just nudging me to, to a edge? To a, to a

Amanda:

None of them thought that. Not a single one of

Leta:

I wanted to actually go to the edge.

Amanda:

None of them thought they were doing anything to harm you. They all thought they were doing stuff to lift you up. Every single one of them thought they were trying to teach you. Especially the ones that continuously say you cannot be a member of SoleTalk. How many of those teachers have you had?

Leta:

Egghead trunk. And this, is why I like the dark. Because of the dark. And the dark has a moon. Also, the dark doesn't have mean, DERKY PEOPLE!

Amanda:

That was not in any way, shape, or form, um, targeted at anyone, right?

Leta:

No, uh, buddy from, uh, Soldark. Nobody from Soldark.

Amanda:

Uh, I noticed Okay, so, but Let's expand real quick before we leave on that dark, the moon. Is light

Leta:

Yes! It might have a little light, But it reflects a little light from the sun! And that's beautiful. Also, plus, in the dark you can see fireflies shining. Also, plus, then you can see the moon's reflection on the water, and then you can just hear the trees blowing for the wind, and then you can see so many cute, quiet little animals that don't come out in the daytime. And then you can look at the owls, and then you can look at the little mice, and then you can just enjoy the quiet with silence. It's a beautiful sound with a silent, beautiful, m magnificent melody. Well, you can look at the stars, because you can't look at the stars in the daytime, because the sun will burn your eyes out.

Amanda:

and the dark also hides stuff. Does it not?

Leta:

That's a plus. It's easier to hide from people that want to hurt you.

Amanda:

The dark is safety. Um, let's wrap this up because that is exactly what I wanted to do is get that out that, um, you got to watch what you say around kids, don't you, Leta? And you need to watch what you say around adults and it took watching Hollywood gossip YouTube, uh, to get that through because someone was talking about how badly words have hurt her

Leta:

Yeah.

Amanda:

and I think that's something we can all learn. Um,

Leta:

Oh. Kinda like cow belly words from people's mindsets of the dark's. Evil made it where the dark is evil. When the dark isn't evil, it's beautiful and made it way in the dark. You are not safe, but in the dark you are safe because there's places to hide and breathe and calm.

Amanda:

yeah. So if anyone's wondering why you have not done your January SoleTalk, Omar, get, it might be because you. Couldn't talk because if you're a gross Bert and your legs being a little wobbly, I like that smirk on your face. Like, yeah, that's exactly why. But I think you're at the point. We may let you get back on into dance classes. You have been since you were at. Since you're at autistic wings, uh, we have held you back from dance classes. I think we can slowly push you back into dance classes. Might even let you do a little bit of work with the babies. All right, so Friday, we have miss Michelle's coming on the program. You excited? She's back on the program. Uh, it seemed like a rush conversation. Uh, this will be the 1st, part of the Friday. Dale. Mom and miss Michelle had been talking beforehand. Had we not? And then we kind of rushed our session of the podcast, but we'll have miss Michelle on again. Cause I mean, we love having miss Michelle on don't we? We only got like through part of both deals because, uh, I was only supposed to record 20 minutes with her an hour later. You're like, yep, mom. That's how that goes. Um, where was I going? Oh, yeah. Um. Oh, Autistic Wings still doing our 350 and 365 because what's wrong with Autistic Wings at the moment, Leta? Leta?

Leta:

We need another space and we need the more money. We need more the mul. We need the mul us. We need the moolahs. Not cows though, we don't need cows. We need the moolahs. Not cows. Not cows.

Amanda:

It turns out

Leta:

That would be a huge accident.

Amanda:

It turns out when you build something for autistic people by autistic people with autistic stuff in mind, everyone starts coming out after a while. And we are at the point we are. In desperate need of a larger space, or we're going to have to turn lots and lots of kids away, which I don't want to do, which you don't want to do, which our staff doesn't want to do. So we are trying to get people.

Leta:

Seeing if I can throw it through the circle perfectly.

Amanda:

Okay, so we are trying to get people to do. To agree to donate 10 a month so that we can go get rent a new bigger studio space Are we not Leta and where can they find the link for the?

Leta:

Down below. For that or imagine a hairy legend. Maybe here or here or

Amanda:

in the description, um

Leta:

yellow down the arrow Yellow on the other side or yellow on the other side or white marked arrow in the

Amanda:

gonna link our yeah, I'm also gonna link our one time donation Option, um, in the description below, um, we, if you are in Colorado Springs, we still have openings in a few classes, uh, call us up websites, autistic wings, dance company. org Leta. Where can they find you on the internet?

Leta:

It has arrows and

Amanda:

Leta tap styles on Instagram. The podcast is on Facebook and a tick tock as long as tick tock exists. Where can they find the studio? On socials,

Leta:

Um Matches to

Amanda:

wings, dance company,

Leta:

company Is it a company or not?

Amanda:

if people are wondering about coming on the podcast, whether it's talk about dance autism or some other form of, uh, differently abled, how did they do that

Leta:

Uh, you go into Podmatch. Then you say Batch be Pod. And then Podmatch you.

Amanda:

Podmatch is where we do a lot of our stuff. Uh, you can find our PodMatch link on the website, uh, Leta tap styles dot com, um, or I'll just link our pod match down below. Um, you want to. Tell people about pod match real quick. It's

Leta:

Interesting.

Amanda:

the thing. Okay. Well, that's a 1 way of doing it. What does pod match do for us?

Leta:

There's Pod. Thank you. Demacius was chum chum, chum chum chum. And then, it's Demacius.

Amanda:

Okay. The 13 year old is, uh, interesting on that 1. so pod match is a website that, uh, does it's kind of like a, um. Tinder for pod matchers and guests. It helps us find the perfect guest, or when we're being guests, it helps us find the perfect host for our, uh, stuff. You are getting tired, you probably need some caffeine and a nap and to, uh, maybe Just maybe do five minutes tap today to see if you're good enough for it, but pod match. com can't recommend it highly enough. Uh, if you use our affiliate link that will be down below, we will get a small portion of, um, the money you spend at pod mat. But you know, other than that, this is not a paid ad. Um, see everyone on Friday then, right, Leta. And next week we will be back to explaining coolness of tap, right kiddo. All right. Have a great week, everyone.

Leta:

Hey well, thank you for watching the podcast and please subscribe and also look at that adorable pittie. Don't you want to subscribe for it and also please leave a like and don't forget if you subscribe to our stuff you won't miss any of our new podcast stuffies and also you can see that adorable pittie. Don't you like it?

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