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Spencer Dellas

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 In elementary school, when I just started to understand how school works, I would crawl around the library under the shelves and stuff. I wasn’t super loud. I understood the requirements. I just didn’t understand why you couldn’t move quietly and not get in trouble for it. So that was a big thing where I just wanted to read and if it [was] comfortable under the shelf because I was small enough to fit.  I started [having social anxiety] as soon as I knew what I was doing in class and stuff wasn’t viewed as normal. People didn’t feel comfortable with it. It’s not that [it was] was bad, I just didn’t get why. I tried to understand it, and I would go down a whole path of ‘oh, they don’t like it. That means it’s bad.’ Then I had to recognize ‘no, it doesn’t mean it’s just bad. It just means I interact differently.’ – Spencer Dellas, 12

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