Selective Mutism & Finding Your Voice

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2016

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

While Jeremie was visiting Montreal he met a young girl named Brittany. For almost half of her life Brittany never spoke a word. She suffered from a complex childhood anxiety disorder known as Selective Mutism. Jeremie and Britt explore the social challenges of growing up without a voice and the scary thought of hearing yourself speak for the first time. The two discuss first words and favourite words and Jer may or may not step over the line when it comes to "political correctness"... spoiler alert: of course he does....

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0:14.5	She'll tell you why her new film, Fantasy Life has her thinking about validation, about vanity, and what she thinks about cosmetic surgery and
0:21.8	whether or not to get it.
0:23.4	You'll hear that conversation now.
0:25.0	Just search for Q with Tom Power, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.1	This is a CBC podcast.
0:32.1	Music Okay, okay, okay, okay, enough of that.
0:44.3	Okay, okay, enough of that.
0:59.0	Holy smokes, guys.
1:01.6	Last night was one of the best nights of my life.
1:07.0	My life.
1:08.7	My life.
1:10.5	I like. We, so it is, it's actually Thursday, September 29th here in Halifax.
1:17.6	And yesterday on Wednesday, September 28th, we threw our fourth live show at the historic, legendary Seahorse Tavern in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which was not only an honor,
1:34.1	but also an extraordinarily surreal moment, because like we said in the recording of that episode,
1:40.9	we have been to the Seahorse a number of times in our life to take
1:47.7	in shows. But this was the time that people were coming to the seahorse to see our show. Yeah.
1:54.1	Something that we created. And it was just like a, it was, I don't know, it was like a fucking
1:57.7	cool thing, man. And I've even been on stage at the Seahorse several times.
2:03.0	And like Brian said, I'm uninvited.
2:04.9	I've never been invited on the stage.
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