The Silent Struggle Within: Navigating Imposter Syndrome in Dance

In this episode, Amanda and Leta delve into the complexities of Imposter Syndrome, and how it often affects dance students. They discuss how dance is often touted as a confidence booster for children, yet many dancers, including Leta, struggle with feelings of not belonging, not being perfect, and wanting to hide in the shadows. Tears are mixed with dark humor as they dive deep into Leta’s personal struggles with imposter syndrome.

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How many times has imposter syndrome's a re thing? You do have imposter syndrome. Now I I don't only important people can have imposter syndrome. Are you important? Now other for, I keep getting told that only now divas can have imposter syndrome and that I'm that, I mean diva. So, yeah. This is Leta and this is me and my mommy's my mommy, and there's me and I'm just talking about this stuff. And there's me tap dancing because this is the tap Dancing Autism podcast and there's bunch animals and wallby trying to eat my hair and there's bunch saying, and. Dancing. Oh, also, they're my boots. My boots are amazing. Also, dance, me trying not to have a panic attack. Also, this is a podcast that we autism and kept dancing and blah, blah, blah. I'm A DHD. This thing also. This your adorable puppy. Leta, you wanna introduce the podcast? My mom is early in the morning. Uh, we are, of course it is Tap Tuesday, and I waited until the very last minute and I, we recorded an episode. I didn't like how it turned out. We recorded an episode. I didn't like how it turned out. I, it's just eight o'clock 30 in the morning. You are normally up by now. It just fills earlier because of the cloud covering. Okay, but to day we were recording episodes about the You can Do It video from SoleTalk and we bunny trailed into something that I think needs to be discussed. not my fault. No, but I think it needs to be discussed and I think it relates to the video, but it needs its own podcast. Imposter syndrome and um, hi. Hello. Sit up. Sit up. There will be emotions. It is a podcast. Right. Can we Because, act out the motions instead of speaking emotions? uh, no. Here's the thing. I think a lot of studios are struggling and one of the things they keep telling people is that dance will give your child confidence that if your child is in dance class, class, it will give you confidence. You are giving me a look. Do wow. Has dance class ever given you confidence? It is made me think about I deserve to die. Um, your company, SoleTalk, the International Tap Dance Company you're part of just released. I don't know what you're playing with over there, but I'm going to pretend I don't care. Um. Sy down your short No, but it released a tap video that was recorded after three days at DC Tap Fest last year. Um, four days. If you include the fact you guys had the concert, uh, four days beforehand. Y'all were dragging on the ground, were you not? Um, well, I wasn't, I was just very to live. But no, I meant you guys were tired as all get out, were you not? Let's see. One of us was halfway in, in the grave, but that, that, that was because it's four, four days. But yeah, he was halfway in the grave, I'm pretty sure. This wasn't done bubbly, fresh at the start of a morning when you hadn't done multiple late nights in a row. Leta, that was an actual question. Wait, what? What, what? Now? The night beforehand. I don't think we left early and we left at like 11:00 PM the night beforehand. I don't think they got done till like one, two o'clock the night beforehand. actually they didn't get done until like five in the morning, And then everyone was back at like nine for the last three classes of the day. And then we took a break for you guys to scarf down lunch and get into costumes. next time we make the party end before midnight. It wasn't the party that time, it was the showcase and cutting contest. The cutting contest went forever. We do it in the beginning party, you know, the beginning part of the, It was when it, it was, um, when. People could get stuff done, but I wanted to discuss some correspondence you've gotten from former dance teachers and for former people who have worked with you on dance. None of which I would like to make this clear, none of which is Chloe and Maud Arnold, is it? You dropped your squishy dinosaur. None of the things I'm gonna say are from people within Soul, the SoleTalk realm. Correct. Grab your squishy dinosaur real quick. Um, here are some legitimate things I have gotten from in the week that that video has been released. This video shows that Chloe Arnold doesn't really think Leta can be a tap dancer because Leta was in the back. Um, yeah. You probably have very much blood on your hands. Um, with Leta being in the back like this, are you worried that Chloe might someday realize she doesn't need Leta and that Leta will no longer be part. Need me for what? And that Leta will not be a part of what Continuous putting Chloe Arnold as an amazing choreographer because people at Chloe's level only keep around people that they need, not people that they like. She, she's got soul babies. Yes, I know they're called soul babies, but let's just, let's just be honest. They're Leta. Yeah. Syncopated ladies Syncopated Babies babies. pay the babies. I just keep this up as Here's another one. just, I I mean, what useful this do you have for, for a 5-year-old? Other than they're adorable when they show off, they got it right. If Leta was really a good tap dancer, she would've been in the front. Watched any of my podcast? I don't if it think that. And that's my thing. These were coming from people who reached out because they've been, blood on their hands. they've been former dance teachers of yours, and they love you so much. They want to support you by telling you how bad you are. Yes. And I agree with them. I am terrible. I gonna now read some things from the latest So Danca post about Autistic Wings Dance Company 'cause So Danca posted about your tap studio. Wasn't that amazing? That was really super sweet of them. Um, Jack looks like a statue, Jackie Poo, the Dougie is right at my feet. I want to let us. Read this specific post from So Danca USA, this autism acceptance month. We're celebrating 13-year-old Leta who founded autistic wings dance company. Leta, let's support her mission to build a new studio that embraces everyone together. We can include, build a more inclusive world through dance. Mm-hmm. Some of their replies to comments you said. Thank you all for your support. Thank you for sharing your talent. What talent, what, what I'm saying. what talent? Uh, so styles of motion, LLC when I love this. Thank you soa. So Danca's response was isn't Leta tap styles just amazing. Um, are they okay in the head? They okay in the head? Here's my thing. I think a lot of tap dance teachers don't understand the power they have on this one subject, and we're gonna discuss it. Do you think you can dance? Are you trying to get my ass whooped and put in the grave? Do you think you are good enough to be on stage with the other SoleTalkers? like seriously, are you just trying to help my case of being put in the grave? Do you think you are worthy to be in classes with the other SoleTalkers? I got squishy. Let's You have a hy dinosaur on your head. how we just focus on that, how we just on that and Do you agree with what So Danca said about you sharing your talent with the world? Yeah. Do you agree that you have talent? Um, Do you know that most of the podcasting world that we've talked to thinks you are a very talented tap dancer? I feel Turtle right now, snail pigs compared to all the other show tigers, but again, they, they don't have it red right hips that I know of, so, yes. Do you believe that you are worthy of any praise from anyone about your dance No, where? but then again, usually when I say that to people, they're go, they usually say, you are a jacket. Oh, you're a diva. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You look about ready to cry over there. Damn, I have no scars. How many times has imposter syndrome's a re thing? You do have imposter syndrome. Now I I don't only important people can have imposter syndrome. Are you important? Now other for, I keep getting told that only now divas can have imposter syndrome and that I'm that, I mean diva. So, yeah. Have you ever been told in SoleTalk that you can't have imposter syndrome? Have you ever been told in SoleTalk that you have no talent? Have you ever been told in a. Have dance teachers ever spoken to you in a way that makes you think they think you have no talent? We're going to go to one of them. What do you mean ever that's making, it sounds like this is a real life thing. When you were in hip hop one back in Alabama and there was that. I never got the crown. I got it once. I never again. What was the crown? ever? The best well behave. And was the most behaved, I guess I wasn't behaved. And you know why your teacher told me she didn't give it to you My, because you didn't need it wait, why didn't I need it? because. was, was I not behaved well enough? Wait. She told me because she knew you were good and you had to already know you were good. There was no need for her to reinforce to you that she knew you were good. I was gonna make a real next time She didn't give you, I. That crown because she knew you were so good, and she said Leta doesn't need reinforcement of her talent. Dang. I didn't die because about it. Um, I. but. Yes, you do, uh, do with anything you've ever done with SoleTalk, and I'm gonna quickly put some, uh, videos up here of some of the deals. Do you feel like you've ever come off the stage without making a mistake? Now I can make mistakes How, how do you feel you did in this video? Fulfill like feelings like, like safe feelings, No. Did you do good? Did you do bad? Was it great? Was it the worst thing you've ever done I felt like dying afterwards, because you were tired? you know, because it was terrible. What? Okay. Putting in clip right here that has you in it. What about this is terrible that you did All of it. love it. Okay. That's helpful. Um, how could you have improved it other than what I think you're gonna say M being me, not being new. Like what do you mean by that? I don't have my earpiece on. I can't hear you today. You guys talk a little louder. Yeah. Seriously cannot hear you. I don't, I don't know. It's it humanly possible that there wasn't much you could do to be better. It's just that you personally think you are terrible all the time. There's silence here. I feel like you're trying very hard not to say no. But I mean, this is a podcast. Podcasts are not Hollywood. They're not, 'cause we've known some friends who've tried to do podcasts that are Hollywood and they wanna keep that. I. Um, image podcasts are a little bit more raw. They're a little bit more emotional. They're a little bit more, less influencer, more real person behind the mic, aren't they? So what little girl who looks like in the me is about to make her cry? What are you thinking? If I were to ask Chloe or Ma how you did on this shoot, what do you think they'll tell you? I needed to clean up more. I needed to clean up more. Well, I mean, they're gonna tell everyone they need to clean up every single minute of the day, but I. Are they going to say, oh, Leta, you were terrible, or are they going to give you a hug and say, Leta, you did fine. Um, maybe Maybe. How many of your teachers throughout the years have just criticized you all of them. how I. And they've always felt, and this is where I think dance teachers need to understand the autistic mind. Their criticism of you has just destroyed your self worth, hasn't it? You between, are you trying to put me in a wave here? I'm gonna get my ass in the wave. You're like, Chloe Arnold are going to be mad at me. They're not listening to the podcast. Okay? It's other people. People who actually. Then if anyone from listening to this, you heard that, and if you say anything biased alone in the. So, what do you wanna say? Did you see the, is got a shoe that's coming late June to the house for you? You think So Danca works with bad dancers. The bad dancer being you and only you. Yeah. Um, how? No, I actually have real questions here. I just said I was thirsty. You're thirsty? Yeah. Okay. You got a drink, you look like you're still about to cry 'cause mommy is making you talk about emotional stuff, isn't she? You're nodding your head for those people listening on Spotify or Apple or Amazon Podcast or Podcasts, podcast and all that. Um. There is a reason I'm going over this because you've got a lot of kids looking up to you now. A lot of kids, you've got a lot of adults looking up to you and I think it, what do you mean? by now? Did you hear, all the, those kids talking about me when I was six? What do you mean by now? let me rephrase that. You have, you have always had. more than usual? But I think, here's the thing, I think sometimes we focus so much on that mask you have to wear because do you think you can tell people outside of the podcasting world, like if you knew this was going to the dance world, would you talk about the imposter syndrome, I'm a mean diva, but. syndrome. Damn mean. But because this is going to the podcasting world, I think it frees you up a little bit more. And I think that's one of the things we need to quit doing in dance is we've put it to the point that people are thinking you can't have imposter syndrome and be good.'cause if you have imposter syndrome, you must be a diva. you can have depression. But it, I think that's a problem within the, um, dance world. And I think dance teachers and dance studio owners need to understand every word they say has a consequence, doesn't it? You're nodding your head. Every correction they make needs to be made. How do I put this the right way? Every correction you have ever gotten from a dance teacher, I think dance teachers have, 'cause right now dance studios are struggling. Dance has become a luxury and it shouldn't be a luxury should it. Arts should not be a luxury. But dance classes here in town are starting at like $80 an hour. And you what before you even smell ship. That's once everyone learns it. Nobody gets paid a teach it. Everybody just learn. Knows nobody. Nobody goes to classes. You just. Well, I think that's the thing. I think dance classes are important, but I think I. So many studio owners have the idea in their head that I am going to be different than everyone else. And in the long run, they wind up with the same cliques, they wind up with the same issues, uh, because they're hiring from the same hire or talent pool for teachers. And I don't think they understand, especially with autistic kids. And I will say this as an autistic kid myself, the way you give corrections. Can damage you forever, can't it? Did you just pick up candy so you can't talk to me? Leta, grab a PE and then put the pest down and pick up the microphone. Leta, this is, Yeah, hi. I know I'm doing emotions right now, but do you think you could maybe try talking every now and then di on me on the emotions? You understand what I'm saying here on this one? Am I making sense? um. That apparently not only important people can have, I. I think importance is in the eye of the beholder here. Let's pick, let. I think importance is you will never think you're important. I think you could be tapping in front of Good Morning America's audience and you will never think you're important will you? Is good morning What if you were in front of the Today Show, CBS this morning? I would've never be in front of Did you say never because you have a piece? Yeah, never. You have a piece of candy in your mouth, so you can't answer me very well, don't you? What? No, Oh mother, I would never do that on purpose. I'm just your adorable, sweet, innocent child here. Let's talk about the podcast. You know, people are listening to the podcast. You know, you are going on to multiple podcasts as a podcast guest. I think, and this is not saying anything, I've talked, you are not doing the dance podcast. You're doing the mainstream podcast, for lack of a better word. Yeah, You're going on talk. You've even been on Talk radio. We were on the positive uh, talk radio show. Here's the thing, and this is not dis in your Amazing SoleTalk friends who I think this is the perfect time for you to really quick interject and say something about your SoleTalk friends and podcasts. You are not gonna go, I have a podcast guys. Would you like to remember? I have a podcast guys contact me for. I've given up. Given up. Um, we know what, at least one of them is coming on this summer as soon as, uh, school is over. But I think you've been on podcast almost weekly. Not just our podcast, but podcast across the country almost weekly for the last few months. Um, sometimes two time, two or three times a week, I think. You have a message that is resonating the idea of this dance studio specifically for autistic kids that's taking into account all this. I think you are becoming somewhat important. No, I'm not. Oh, I guess you are. No, I'm not. Okay. We're gonna pretend that you had Aaron Watson, like one of your tap dance videos. Yeah. You were super excited when that happened. Yeah. Here's a question because I know you have your list of, uh, people you would like to meet as far as, um, even coming on this podcast. Correct? Okay. Like Aaron Watson's on the top of that list.'cause you think Aaron Watson's the greatest singer in the entire world. Yeah. I talk a little louder. No.'cause I made, I made you do feelings. Have I not? But let's talk Livingston. Do you think Livingston may have imposter syndrome every now and then? Like normal human beings? I. You're like, but I wanna talk to him on the podcast. I would love to have Livingston on the podcast too, to talk about autism and, 'cause he's autistic and he's a, um, singer, you're like, I would love to have this man on my podcast. But I think because you also like Nico Moon, you don't have a boat, but you wish you had a boat sometimes, don't you? Me, Do you love Nico Moon me. And he's really big about mental health, I think, which is one thing I think dance fails at sometimes is they don't understand the need of mental health. I love how he, uh, put it. In one of his deals.'cause you love, hopefully I'm not putting words in your mouth, you love the song Better days. Correct. You know which one that is right? You were so quiet over there. I think people, I think I totally destroyed you, but no, like you love better days and better days. Um. Hold on, let me get the lyrics real quick.'cause I know the lyrics and my brain just went, 'cause I was pulling up a different set of lyrics real quick and I was also, while you were getting your water looking at a bunch of, um, choir kids talking about their, um, choir life. And it's like, yep. Been there. Okay. Um, I think the part I love about better days is you're like, when the stars are burning out and the waves are crashing in, running circles in my mind, got me searching for a light that can guide me home again when I'm in a hurricane and the water start to rise while the lonely in the thunder. Wanna try and take me under. I swim, I'm swimming against the tide and I've been caught stormy weather, but nothing lasts forever That morning, sunrise gonna remind me. I've still got good friends that I've never met and big dreams that I'm trying to catch and some memories that I wanna get, but I still ain't got to make. And it's a simple life that I wanna live, and it's lots of love that I gotta give and a couple checks off that bucket list that I still ain't got to make. So when I think my bend is gonna break, I hold on hope. Onto the hope of better days. I think you resonate kind of with that Nico Moon song because a lot of your people are like, you can't have the bad days, but you've gotta have the bad days. You've gotta have those imposter syndrome days. You gotta give into it, right? You gotta respond. This is a talk podcast. Um, do you feel like some of the Nico Moon songs outside of like. N no more sad songs, which has been your theme song from si time to time, except for the, you know, alcohol involved in it. I, I question you. Aw. Uh, but you're like, I'll just take multiple frappuccinos instead of multiple shots of, of vodka. Do you think sometimes one of the reasons you resonate with like Nico Moon is because he was willing to acknowledge those bad days? What does it mean? Do, because I took a wiggle. do you feel like those songs speak to you? Well, yeah. He's talky talking. Yeah, Like, do you feel like, do you, do you feel seen? Do you feel heard? Do you feel like these songs are, um, I. they have ice now? Yeah. Hold on. I gotta do this real quick. Resonate means that these songs talk to your heart. They talk to your spirit. There's something that make you feel like this is something you're going through. Okay. That makes no sense. But I'm gonna go with yes. make no sense. What makes no sense about that? that? All of it. But the song suddenly talks now. No, I mean, has eyes. okay. I'm, do you feel like these songs are talking about what you're going through? Oh, now I say I've had multiple people tell me that I do not go to food. That Yes, but I'm not asking what other people tell you. I'm asking what you feel. Do you feel like you've gone through these songs? mean, no, but I, I could go for no. Okay. What because, do. because I would be meaning to say I've gotten through that stuff when I haven't gotten to food. That stuff in stupidly I feel like there might be a little bit of masking going on there because you've been told that going through this stuff would make you a bad kid, haven't you? The look on your face if people are watching on, can you look into the camera with that? Look your camera. With that look. The look. That's pretty much saying hi. I am lying through my teeth. That look. Um, uh, but Still good.. No, what I'm trying to get at is, does it help you seeing that other people who are playing to Red Rocks like Nika Moon is, you're like, I have no clue why playing to Red Rocks is a big deal. Do you, you're shaking your head no. It is a big deal. Well, it used to be a bigger deal in my youth, but it's still a big deal. Um. Does it help you when someone like him comes out and goes, I too can have depression at times. Yeah. Does it at least give you some cover to be like, oh look, not just divas can have depression, but like real Well, I don't have your question. child mind. I love you. I don't have. You've never gotten really, really upset. Sad that the world was terrible. Now. Does it help you seeing someone like Nico Moon? Have depression and while you haven't had depression, imposter syndrome is some, depression is something supposedly you're not supposed to have as a recording artist.'cause your life is supposed to be perfect. You shouldn't have depression at all. Um, but like you've said, and people trying to model you and people I mean, you've been told over and over you can't have imposter syndrome because that's a diva thing. Oh, because divas can't have imposter. And all my teachers kept telling me I was a diva because I was messing up and accidentally messing up choreography. And that obviously made me a diva. Um. Um, it, it's doesn't make you a diva that makes you human, but hey, makes me a diva 'cause I was messing up. that makes me way I want to be deciding Star would be better than everybody else. I have a. then I'm di I. I have a friend who it was found out that she didn't lip sync her concerts because she totally forgot music one day Yeah. So in front of an entire a hundred thousand people. Uh, don't worry. She too was told she's a diva and she can't make mistakes. There's a lot of pressure. was kept being told that Diego only make mistakes because they won't be shining stones and better than everybody else if they want everybody have the spotlight on there and nobody else I mean, what you get told, and that's not anything that I told, I mean, my generation, it was divas. Never make mistakes, but divas know they're better than everyone else. keep getting told Dean must make all the mistakes so everybody is focused on them and they only make mistakes, so everybody pays attention to them I mean, here's the thing though, that was not told to you by anyone in the working with you professionally that was told by a dance teacher. Was that not what I'm. was this one really mean guy teacher that I had that would tell the whole class every mistake I made, and I kept tell saying that I was a diva and kept saying that I shouldn't want to be better than everybody else, and I shouldn't want to be a star. And he and I, and I didn't. What stays with you longer though? Um, that or. Anyone from SoleTalk talking you up, you look about ready to cry, remembering that, uh, dill, you are 13. You shouldn't be having these things. And these are the same people who are coming out. Oh honey, come here. Alright. Had a little bit of a cry, esh, because this is emotional, right? Leta. You are nodding your head, but I think this is really important because I think so many people in your life have felt that those statements are helping you become a better human being. That telling you all that is becoming a better human being, So where we, where we wanting to die is supposed to help me become a better human being. I don't think they understand that that's what they're doing. I mean, and, and I hoping your story of all and the broadness we're doing today will help some of these dance teachers understand what consequences those words have, especially in a kid who's autistic.' cause there's a lot of times your dance teachers, they will come to me and tell me how much they absolutely love you and how much you love them. You're giving me a look and you're coming outta class crying because they have just broken you down. And they're saying stuff that they think is supporting you. They don't see that part. They don't see what they have done. They honestly cannot see where they have gone wrong, where they have been the problem. But the. I think there's a good, I accidentally unscrewed my microphone again. I've been playing with stuff so much. I think there's. I think that they have been told by all these other parents, and I think it's coming from the parents, look how much confidence my child has. And Confidence to what? Die? I think there's a lot of masking that goes on in dance studios. I think kids realize you have to mask and that you have to be happy all the time and you have to be like, oh, I love the light and all this all the time. do. But how do I put this nicely? No, you don't because if you are always happy, then you'll find no joy in the happiness. Think it through. If you are always happy, if you are always standing in the light, then there is no joy in the light'cause that's just normality. If you have, and this is going to sound crazy if you have. Those bad days, if you have those rainy days where it seems nothing can get better, and then you have the light days where everything is great, doesn't that make the great days even better? I don't like the light. Yes, but here's the thing. You've gotten to the point that your safe spot is the dark. Your safe spot is at corner in the studio where no one can see you, where teachers can't say anything about you because they don't see you, haven't you? Leta, why do you like the dark corners? Cause it safe? But why is it safe? Does it safe? I need. No, you can't. You gotta be open about this. What about dark corners and dance studios? What about that place can see me and what happens if they can't see? You damn safe, say from what? people. What about people makes them unsafe? We go down the, but uh, do we. Not quite, but here's, but that's the thing. You shouldn't think that the only safe spot in a dance studio is a corner away from all the teachers. Yeah, and I keep getting, yeah. If you're not in that safe spot, if you're not in the corner, what are you expecting The. gonna die, then I'm gonna die. I'm going die. I'm gonna die right there. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die in Fra to leopards. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die in Fra to leopards. I'm gonna die. I'm in FRA to. I'm gonna die. One thing. So Dona doesn't know, um, and I know they probably don't like, but you have had a lot of people tell you that this is never gonna work autistic wings because you are not looking at what the neurotypical people have. Um, yeah, last time I checked the pole pants as to give a damn whether or not you do or don't wanna be eating. Yeah, fuck but no, like we've had a bunch of people reach out and go, this won't work because you're making it where neurotypical people don't feel. wait. Does a poll, oh, wait, wait. Does a poll, does, does, the killer whale sound give a damn? Whether or not you do want it to be like the killer whale in the movie does it a damn whether or not you don't be drowned Okay. Why Friend Shape, if not friend on the killer walls? Friend, how does a giant, it has to murder everywhere weapon. And now they, yeah. Yeah. So, uh, yeah. Yeah. No typical people, I don't think they kill. Well, cares if you think it spread, shaped, you Okay, so, but that's been a big thing I've been told is you need to tell us how to make our studios work as is and not have these autistic kids off at the side and how to make us neurotypical people not feel out of place and feel like this isn't set up for us, which. So while we tried to go back to that decade where we were trying to make the wild feel like it's Hubert's territory and not wild animals. Ator where we were just killing everything that we fought was everything that was predator. And just keeping everything that was prey alive and everything, the predator dead because we were trying to roll the wild because we were try to make the wild more, uh, let's see, inviting for humans, the less inviting for the sink But Okay. live in it. So, but on the other hand, when we go out away from the dance world and we talk about some of the things we're changing at autistic wings, one of which being teachers think before you talk, think how this is going to be. Heart that isn't like suis and SU's wife's side because he has SU's wife in the original tail, tried to keep murder Hercules and it because happily in love, No. Okay. Yeah. But what I'm saying is one of the things we're saying is you need to think. You need to think of what your words consequences are going to be. And outside the dance and entertainment world, people were like, and that's an accommodation. You need to think what. A child is going to think about, that's an accommodation. Um, Dam me and they thinking, oh wait. It like, how is a conversation to make sure you don't say words make a child wants to go their selves. yeah, no, that's the question I continuously have been asked, um, is that shouldn't be an accommodation. That should just be, I'm working with kids. I need to think how this is going to be construed by a kit. But that isn't how they do it. Scroll I dance Most of, see, I think a problem dance studios also have with the differently abled community is none of us like school teachers either. They're like, well, you wouldn't teach, treat a school teacher like this. Oh. I made school teachers also think, now, how can I my words? So the kids wanna go themselves. Dance. Teachers are like, you need to treat me like an educator. And I'm like, oh, you want me to treat you like an educator?'cause I can treat you. Because they're like, well, you professionally do IEPs for other people. How would you treat an educator in this situation? Okay, we need to be behind. bullshit. I'm gonna let the buffalos turn you into, uh, let's see, Buffalo patty. Well, one, the lawyers would be called, in a lot of these situations that dance studios have, I would've called the lawyers and going, hi, I need you. You need to get your ass over here because we're. I'm, we're done. We are not going to mediation. We are not doing anything else. Call the judge, clerk, get us on the sced docket 'cause we're going to, uh, trial and the lawyers normally are talking down, going, we need one. More meeting, but I think a lot of these dance teachers don't understand on that one. No one in the differently abled community really likes the education system either. So going, oh, we're just like, the educators at school aren't helping you very much, are they? So you do wanna considerate Once my children wants to themselves, I mean, that's the thing is a lot of these teachers, you talk to kids my age, you talk to kids in Gen Z, um, you even talk to the older alphas, go? Oh yeah. My teacher wanted me, made me feel like I should just kick myself. all you are going to get. Pretty much is there might be one teacher, but it is usually one teacher they liked. The rest are all elevators. Yeah. I mean, you talk to 'em and, and these teachers really think they did great and they're like, but I just didn't understand, uh, special needs. And it's like, then you shouldn't have been working with special needs kids. I dunno what to tell you. So I'm just gonna go with say, would abuse a puppy and put it in the cage. So, um, SoleTalk. Circling back has never been a problem for you. why don't we talk. No. We're gonna do that later because this is where you go. Hi, SoleTalkers. I would love to break down this video, but that seems like something that I need people who are in this video to come break down so we can also talk about the behind the scenes, including. then, then it's going be forever then because, um, it's like June and July is like next, the month. It's like May and early May, and we go out, you know, it's, sorry, into July and you're not going out to DI don't think we're hitting DC this year. I've looked at the calendar and it's just not gonna work calendar wise. We've got the new group of kids coming in on that Tuesday. I guess we could try and get home early on Tuesday, but we've also got, uh, some politic in. It's all about politics. When you're a nonprofit, we got some politic and we gotta get done at the state fair now, everyone's least favorite thing in the world. Let's go to the state fair so that we can go talk to the elected officials and discuss why they need to be giving more money to us, right Leta, or at least you know, not cutting special ed funding. If humans make it When the no. If humans are still alive, when the Nova Star hits, I'm just gonna be up in heaven going, what the ever loving. We got smarter after I died. Any who? Um. A mic drop there. Um, Friday we've got Karen Nash, who's a registered nurse coming on to talk about the medical portions of autism, which I do think a lot of these dance teachers need to understand. I'm so sorry. It's so hard to understand that person is different from a brain can also have some physical problems. So I, I am, I'm sorry. Is only Leta Leta, at fan. Thank you very much. Say it's no longer, they don't know that the neuro neurodivergent brain is literally different than the neurotypical brain. They think it's the exact same brain. Oh, thank you very much for telling me you're an educator. Now, where's your doctor again? Wait. Where's your doctor? People with doctorates and doctorates of education, whoa, whoa. You can't be educated. What's out? You can't be like a college level educator without that. Boo. I'll thank you. Bless you. Or hearts goodbye. I have sciences. My mother we're not teach we, we are not teaching ed educators. You do not have to have special ed. people in college? We are not teaching educators in college. You wanna, what? that's a totally different subject. The educate to become a teacher, you don't have to get education in college, we're like throwing. So, uh, human beings aren't living to, when the Nova sign, it's because you have to have a brain. Well, but, or, uh, Cara's coming on. She's gonna talk medical with us. Uh, she said she'll come on again. So listen, watch if you've got questions for her next appearance on here. Please feel free to drop them in the comments sections or to fan mail them. Um. 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