The Right To Remain Silent
Ooh You're In Trouble
Mortified Media and TRAX from PRX
4.6 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A young girl with cerebral palsy tricks her teachers into thinking she doesn’t speak and keeps up the charade for two years.
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| 0:00.0 | The following story is true. |
| 0:02.0 | Names and places may have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty and the just plain ridiculous. |
| 0:09.4 | This week on... |
| 0:11.1 | Ooh, you're in trouble. |
| 0:14.7 | Hi, I'm Mia, and when I was a little kid, I tricked my teachers into thinking I couldn't speak for two years. |
| 0:20.8 | Ooh, that sounds bad. But is it? That's something I'm always wondering. Because, you know, |
| 0:26.1 | I'm that little voice in your head. But you can call me LVie. Hi, Elvie. What's up? And if there's |
| 0:31.3 | one thing I know, it's that we don't always do what we're told. Sometimes we're stirring up mischief. |
| 0:36.7 | Ladies report to the principal's office. Sometimes we're stirring up mischief. Please report to the principal's office. |
| 0:38.3 | Sometimes we're trying to spark change. |
| 0:41.3 | Attention students, please stop protesting in the cafeteria. |
| 0:44.3 | This is a show about what happens when we break the rules growing up, and someone |
| 0:49.3 | shouts, ooh, you're in trouble. |
| 0:52.3 | Stories of rebels, rascals, rule breakers, and even revolutionaries. |
| 1:02.5 | I grew up in Orlando, Florida. |
| 1:05.1 | I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, spastic cerebral palsy, when I was three just right before I entered school. |
| 1:12.6 | All her life, Nia has expressed herself in unexpected ways. |
| 1:16.6 | I was born premature at 23 weeks. |
| 1:19.6 | When my mom went to the hospital to give birth to me, they hadn't heard a heartbeat in five days, |
| 1:23.6 | and they didn't think that I was alive, essentially. |
| 1:25.6 | But one thing was certain, Nia was determined to be heard. |
| 1:31.3 | It's a girl, miss, and she's quite a powerful voice. |
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