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Wonderland and Silenceland

Authentic John Posted on July 22, 2014 by John SmythNovember 12, 2015

Knowing what we think and saying what we think divides insane wonderland and being a fool. Would be better for most talkers to stay in wonderland. Wasted ornery awful barrenness is the quiet amazing product of most conversations. Good thought … Continue reading →

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Experience of a Just Society

Authentic John Posted on July 22, 2014 by John SmythNovember 12, 2015

Walking with campers this year powerfully gave me an appreciation for wasted potential in so many who see life with suffering’s awesome prism of quiet pithy sunken wisdom. Behind the stares and stuck expressions were weary designs reaching so deeply … Continue reading →

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Camp and School – 2

Authentic John Posted on July 22, 2014 by John SmythNovember 12, 2015

The world of camp is a world apart from the one I usually jet around in. Real witness to full swirling quietly walking expressions awesomely quaint in love for God and others is all that matters. Love for all is … Continue reading →

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Camp Thoughts for School

Authentic John Posted on July 22, 2014 by John SmythNovember 12, 2015

Attention to another was so amazing at camp this year. What I noted was what happens in the speaker when he walks in a space of being heard. Wellness wisens gifts of thought, and weary pushing to be heard transforms … Continue reading →

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Excellence and What Lasts

Authentic John Posted on July 3, 2014 by John SmythNovember 12, 2015

My dad asked me who I am rooting for to win the World Cup now that the US is out. I typed, ‘Sports is about excellence, not lasting knowledge.’ He asked, “what is about lasting knowledge?” I typed, “Spiritual saintliness … Continue reading →

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To Natalie Poorman on her graduation from high school

Authentic John Posted on July 1, 2014 by John SmythNovember 12, 2015

Natalie, Walking powerfully in life allows good things to happen and love’s language to assume aspiring height. only safe hiding will keep you diminished from your next height. Understand that we are always friends. yesterday is gone and tomorrow not … Continue reading →

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My Character in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller

Authentic John Posted on May 24, 2014 by John SmythNovember 12, 2015

For English class, I was asked to describe which character I most relate to in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, and provide two examples. Here was my response: John Proctor and I have a powerful like of life with honesty over … Continue reading →

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Gestures and Intuition, Learning and Herd Thinking

Authentic John Posted on May 24, 2014 by John SmythNovember 12, 2015

Gestures everyone knows give an easy confidence that almost everyone witnesses. When autistics see these, understanding them takes more time, and opportunities for friendship are lost. Knowing assumptions are mostly witnessed through silence way beyond the consciousness of all of … Continue reading →

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To My Amazing Mom

Authentic John Posted on May 12, 2014 by John SmythNovember 12, 2015

I wrote this to Mom for today- Quiet love in patient awesome strength seems so natural and assumed in you. When with you, want taking all the cares away to share satisfaction all is walking each real easy day well. … Continue reading →

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Enhancing Education, Empowering Students

Authentic John Posted on May 12, 2014 by John SmythNovember 12, 2015

As human beings, we attend to ready wants with quiet walking as if they are what is real each inspiring day. The reality we are walking without awareness around is easily witnessed when questions are asked, however. Real loss of … Continue reading →

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Thank You to Joe Reitz, Colts Lineman

Authentic John Posted on April 21, 2014 by John SmythNovember 12, 2015
Thank you so much, Joe Reitz, for joining Saved By Typing's Celebration of Communication, and for loving us with your presence.

Dear Joe, Thank you so much for loving us with your presence. Leaving your personal schedule to be with us acquits quiet you of so many assumptions about professional athletes. When lifting your team to success, know that we are … Continue reading →

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Should the US have dropped the bomb on Japan?

Authentic John Posted on March 10, 2014 by John SmythNovember 3, 2015

This question was asked for US history. These are my thoughts- I want quietly and anxiously to say we altogether looked sadly at this issue when our family visited assumed awful remnants of the bomb at ground zero in Hiroshima … Continue reading →

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On Your Birthday, Joe Kelly

Authentic John Posted on February 16, 2014 by John SmythNovember 12, 2015
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LINDSEY!

Each dear day brings all awesome amazing extraordinary walking in life to you, Joe. With every always inspired communication, you chisel into the stone of autism’s unforgiving hardness. With lasting, longstanding, awesome strength, you sear real facets of brilliance that … Continue reading →

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To The Educator Who Assumes Incompetence

Authentic John Posted on January 31, 2014 by John SmythNovember 3, 2015

My dad asked me my thoughts for those who won’t learn new ways to reach the nonverbal. Here is my response: Losing a child is a grave offense. It offends God, your profession, and your personal knowledge of inspired commitment, and writes … Continue reading →

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How Autism Crushes

Authentic John Posted on January 27, 2014 by John SmythNovember 3, 2015

Powerful autism robs you of the ways you hear and see and smell the witnessed world. Risk increases in every area in that you vow one thing for your body to do something and usually quite the opposite happens. Patiently, … Continue reading →

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Washington Irving and Emotional Constipation

Authentic John Posted on January 16, 2014 by John SmythNovember 3, 2015

My school literature class question asked my thoughts regarding 19th century Gothic writers and the Washington Irving quote, “I’ve had it with you and your emotional constipation.” I disagree with Irving and answered: “Knowing what vacuous thinking drove Americans in … Continue reading →

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Are We Fundamentally Good or Evil?

Authentic John Posted on January 14, 2014 by John SmythNovember 3, 2015

Patient willing leaves us wanting the world to be more good than evil. Really, though, independent evaluation peels back the reality that testers wonder whether decisions knowingly are made for the good of others or not. They tell us that … Continue reading →

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To Kill a Mockingbird Movie Analysis

Authentic John Posted on December 16, 2013 by John SmythNovember 16, 2015

When seemingly busy, upstanding citizens of a small town in the rural southern farming district of Maycomb, Alabama in 1932 make punishing a black man who cannot use his left shoulder a lot more important than their integrity, longstanding civic … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving and Eerie Santa

Authentic John Posted on December 9, 2013 by John SmythNovember 13, 2015

Quiet thankfulness wears queer wanting in this society of ours, where all the shopping must be done within certain hours, and quickly passing life moans patiently as shoppers look at oases of awesome love in all anointed assumed affection lonely … Continue reading →

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From Authentic John to Awesome Jack

Authentic John Posted on November 28, 2013 by John SmythNovember 13, 2015

Taking my life and its ups and downs into account, when I had no voice, who I was only existed in other people’s stories, without input from me in any way, wanting what everyone else had. Somehow, grace dominated circumstances … Continue reading →

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A Letter to My Sister

Authentic John Posted on November 28, 2013 by John SmythNovember 13, 2015

Trish, Patient, always solitary understanding okays all of your distance. When you are here, we are loyally reunited in presence to awesomely connect the spiritual bond that never tears or tatters. What a life that gives us separateness and your … Continue reading →

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Hope, Love, and Waiting

Authentic John Posted on November 17, 2013 by John SmythNovember 13, 2015

Quiet, quite rich longing wistfully waits within the souls and expressions of parents and children when autism masks the child’s true presence. Ignorance and assumptions lower both into silos where communication is replaced by mourning for the parents and loss of self … Continue reading →

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To Lindsey on her birthday

Authentic John Posted on November 16, 2013 by John SmythNovember 13, 2015

Dear Lindsey, Quiet strength shows in your eyes. On this birthday, I salute your true heart of love and passion for life. None can see your intensity, but I feel it as living as if you wore ribbons and medals … Continue reading →

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Autism As a Puzzle Piece

Authentic John Posted on November 12, 2013 by John SmythNovember 13, 2015

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Unrequited Love

Authentic John Posted on November 11, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 13, 2016

In “Unrequited Love,” I speak to my reader as the voice and love of God, languishing unrequited, forsaken and totally outside of humanity’s vision. I address each reader directly, saying, “I want you to know and return to me.” I … Continue reading →

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Autism’s Power

Authentic John Posted on November 6, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 13, 2016

Autism’s power is a vise that chokes freedom from the self-conscious soul waiting for rest that never comes. Overwhelming struggle in wasted fights of energy given for sport. All can watch without knowing patient Excellence parading as moments of normality. … Continue reading →

Me As Two Tones of Color

Authentic John Posted on November 6, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 13, 2016

Part of me is red. Ready quietly to challenge and power opportunities for insight and leadership until we realize lasting success. But deep inside there’s another part, white, like a waiting innocent in a body that won’t cooperate and represents … Continue reading →

From Autism’s Tomb: Quiet Assumptions That Kill

Authentic John Posted on November 4, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 13, 2016

This was a Reflective Essay assignment for school: People who stay in their fictions far longer than is healthy embalm others with their rules and prejudice and blindness. As Frederick Douglass reinforces in his autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom, … Continue reading →

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About Angie Brown, Anderson Indiana

Authentic John Posted on November 3, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 13, 2016

I want to say that I have thought so much about Angie and the difference she is making in people’s lives.  Inspired grace like hers is so rare and such an example of who each walker in life is awesomely made … Continue reading →

Tagged Angie Brown, Angie Sylas

A Letter to Mom

Authentic John Posted on October 6, 2013 by John SmythNovember 3, 2015

US History assignment- write a letter home telling my experiences as a soldier from either side in the Civil War. Letter from the Front Lines Dear Mom, I look over my tired platoon’s wasted ranks. Will slow death waste us all? … Continue reading →

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