Cracking On with Sam Frost and Sarah Roberts
Aug 27, 2026 · 45 min · 15 segments
Grace Tame sits down with Sam and Sarah to talk about who she actually is: the artist, the autistic woman, the daughter whose mum flew across the world to rescue her from a petrol station in San…
Grace TameGuest
Sarah RobertsHost
Sam FrostHost
If I reflect on, uh, my life and, um, the experiences that I had in childhood, and I'm, I'm not just referring to, um, the abuse that I went through at my high school.
Um, but before that, and even after that, in the years that I was sort of recovering and making sense of it all, um, I think I shifted from being somebody who internalized my own feelings-
... to owning how I felt, not just for myself, but realizing that, you know, all injustice is shared.
So if I'm experiencing injustice at the hands of someone or, uh, an institution, for example, it's often the case that other people are as well.
But we also have to recognize that some individuals don't have that privilege for whatever reason, circumstances, you know, personal safety, that sort of thing.
A- and it's never without risk, totally, but those of us, I suppose, who have certain resources or a certain level of privilege that others might not be afforded, for whatever reason, I think are, have even a, an even greater responsibility to do that, to stand up.
The turning point probably came when I decided to report my high school teacher, and, you know, part of what I'd witnessed leading up to that point was the permissive turning a blind eye to what was happening from adults who had the ability to do something and who chose instead the path of least resistance to protect themselves.
Often people don't realize, I think, that small gestures can make a really big impact.
Like, if someone had of just tried to stand up to that man, if someone had of reported him earlier, or if a group of staff had of teamed up and put more pressure on, maybe something could've changed.
And perhaps, you know, because I'm not the only victim, I'm certainly the last victim that's known of, of this particular person, but, you know, there's a world in which this didn't have to happen.
If I reflect on, uh, my life and, um, the experiences that I had in childhood, and I'm, I'm not just referring to, um, the abuse that I went through at my high school.
Um, but before that, and even after that, in the years that I was sort of recovering and making sense of it all, um, I think I shifted from being somebody who internalized my own feelings-
... to owning how I felt, not just for myself, but realizing that, you know, all injustice is shared.
So if I'm experiencing injustice at the hands of someone or, uh, an institution, for example, it's often the case that other people are as well.
But we also have to recognize that some individuals don't have that privilege for whatever reason, circumstances, you know, personal safety, that sort of thing.
A- and it's never without risk, totally, but those of us, I suppose, who have certain resources or a certain level of privilege that others might not be afforded, for whatever reason, I think are, have even a, an even greater responsibility to do that, to stand up.
The turning point probably came when I decided to report my high school teacher, and, you know, part of what I'd witnessed leading up to that point was the permissive turning a blind eye to what was happening from adults who had the ability to do something and who chose instead the path of least resistance to protect themselves.
Often people don't realize, I think, that small gestures can make a really big impact.
Like, if someone had of just tried to stand up to that man, if someone had of reported him earlier, or if a group of staff had of teamed up and put more pressure on, maybe something could've changed.
And perhaps, you know, because I'm not the only victim, I'm certainly the last victim that's known of, of this particular person, but, you know, there's a world in which this didn't have to happen.
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