If I Could Change Something
Anthea Penfold: I Could Have Shone
Anthea was born in 1941 in Guildford, Surrey. She spent her entire school life in residential special schools in Sussex and Kent.
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Here Anthea talks about her wish to go to ‘normal’ school.
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Well I would have loved to have gone to normal school, I really would. I think I could have shone. I wouldn’t have had the hang-ups about my family. It cut me off from my family so much. I felt a stranger the moment I went home.Explore more
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