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Teenager therapy

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Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Teenager therapy. I'm Gaya. I'm Isaac. I'm Kayla and I'm Thomas and in this episode

We have Deja Fox now hold up. Here's the thing the audio and the beginning got corrupted so sadly

We didn't catch her intro, but Deja is an activist and organizer a badass a future president of the United States and

She's basically just a super involved person. She's super cool has done so much and accomplished so much and she's only 19 years old

So here's the interview we did with her. She's incredible. We'll see what we could recover from it

But I hope you enjoy students like me. They weren't trained to notice the signs right when I had

In my freshman year first period 23 absences or something

So one should have noticed that there was something was not right

But no one no one ever hit saw those flags no one ever stepped in to make a difference

And it wasn't until I was really willing to step forward and show that myself

That I was able to find a counselor who really invested in me deeply

And saw me as a whole person beyond just my life as a student

And yeah, so I think one of my biggest struggles was finding

Advisors and teachers who were able to understand where I was coming from and

work with me

To make sure that my potential was being reached in and out of the classroom

But also there was so many other struggles like the struggle to pretend that it you know to fit in and pretend that this wasn't happening

And that was something I only overcame through the power of storytelling and through activism

Being able to get up in front of my school board and tell them that I was struggling with homelessness and it was affecting my ability

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