Revenge attack at 5 - Surviving Childhood Trauma with Spencer Connelly

In this episode of ListenABLE , Angus sits down with Spencer Connelly for a conversation that is confronting, inspiring and incredibly human. Spencer shares his lived experience after surviving a traumatic fire as a child, spending months in hospital, and learning to navigate the world with visible scars and amputations. He reflects on memory, trauma, recovery, self-image, the complexity of forgiveness, and why he now sees his scars as signs of strength rather than weakness. The conversation also explores disability identity, facial difference, confidence in public, representation in film, and Spencer’s growing dream of building a career in acting. That dream has already taken shape, with Spencer landing a speaking role in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga , and he has publicly credited the KIDS Foundation with helping build his confidence after his injuries. If this episode resonates, share it with someone who needs to hear a story of resilience, perspective and hope. Key Topics: surviving severe childhood burns trauma and memory hospital recovery and rehabilitation living with facial difference disability identity scars and self-acceptance therapy and healing public perception and staring confidence and resilience acting, representation and Furiosa The Story: 00:00 Childhood trauma and the memory that stayed 01:00 Spencer’s story and entering the disability community 05:45 Living with disability and visible difference 07:20 Recovery, surgeries and life after hospital 11:10 Returning to school after trauma 14:50 The truth about what happened 17:40 Differently abled, disability and identity 19:00 Staring, confidence and moving through the world 20:40 Looking in the mirror after trauma 23:15 Forgiveness, healing and moving forward 27:20 Acting dreams and losing one career path 28:20 Meeting Sean Millis and working on Furiosa 35:30 Facial difference and representation in film 37:50 Halloween, scars and public perception 40:10 The bowl of uncomfortable 44:25 Life from here and what’s next

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Revenge attack at 5 - Surviving Childhood Trauma with Spencer Connelly is an episode from ListenABLE by SESSION in PROGRESS.

This episode is 00:54:44 long.

This episode was published on Mar 9, 2026.

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