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Past School Relationships Are Toxic For Me

Authentic John Posted on September 30, 2013 by John SmythNovember 11, 2015

Yesterday I met people from old special schools I attended for behavior therapy, both ABA and VBA.  Each relationship inaudibly echoed a sad dominance of agreement to prove competence. Taking each way of assuming incompetence into quiet completely honest understanding, real … Continue reading →

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Letter to typing friends Sept 21, 2013

Authentic John Posted on September 21, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 13, 2016

Welcome to our awesome and incredible group using typing to communicate. I mostly ask that you be yourselves here. We are friends on a hard walk quietly through a quite nasally noisy society. I feel we are the vanguard of … Continue reading →

Posted in Friends, Saved By Typing

To My Brother James

Authentic John Posted on September 15, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 13, 2016

each day i miss you. taking it one colder day at a time, each easy season slips by.

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Posted in About, Family

Time and Purpose

Authentic John Posted on September 15, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 13, 2016

Easy understanding of life’s seasons, always present, nesting quiet dreams into records in precious time, feeding the beast of history from the promise of today. Really patient sands of each moment want sacrifice to the extraordinary, noting awesomeness is only … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Faith

A letter to Angie

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

Teaching powerfully is what I was born to do. Taking for being good at it is a new  experience. Thank you possibly for the greatest complements I have ever received. Could slow wonderful waiting for winter’s passing quietly usher in … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Friends

A Bill of Rights for Students

Authentic John Posted on August 25, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 13, 2016

The Bill of Rights As If Written For Schools   1. All real administration and instructors shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Essay

Happy birthday, Mom!

Authentic John Posted on August 17, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 13, 2016

You wait really with each lingering peaceful moment for my knowing expression with quiet anticipation. I am honored that you are my Mom. As easy as long years pass together, with all whitening for most of witnessing walkers, you saw … Continue reading →

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Thank you, Jack!

Authentic John Posted on August 17, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 13, 2016

Dear Jack, Quoting Shakespeare, “parting is such sweet sorrow. Whether to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” or to stay underdeveloped within a relationship inspiring true belief and confidence is such an equally diminishing task that I feel … Continue reading →

To My Angel Jane Schreiner

Authentic John Posted on August 16, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 13, 2016

Dear Jane, Want to say I really owe amazing outstanding worth about myself to you. Really and truly, was an oasis in a desert more appreciated and nourishing than you? Each day when I woke for two years, what kept … Continue reading →

How I would have asked Great Britain for independence

Authentic John Posted on August 15, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 14, 2016

I would have loyally suffered with an ongoing written objection. I would have said all men are equal including African-Americans and each writer witnessing the document would pledge quite awesomely all well-being and wanting about documented equality of every person. … Continue reading →

Teaching Is My Love … Loving Is My Destiny

Authentic John Posted on August 13, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 14, 2016

This assignment was to write five paragraphs about myself: Patiently walking in this life when travel and technology use are limited severely hampers my ability to self-determine my actions. When and where anything can happen is out of my hands, … Continue reading →

How IEPs Reflect Our Values

Authentic John Posted on August 13, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 14, 2016

Understanding what IEP worlds are like began for me in a cold and heartless school where teachers were afraid for their jobs and aides were not welcome to attend. Then I went to a new community to live. We just … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Essay

Choice and Consequence

Authentic John Posted on August 13, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 14, 2016

Wanting looks like knowledge linked opportunely with desire. Life is presencing itself moment by moment. Infinite possibilities powerfully live to lend our attention at any moment. Lasting potential exists in each. Any direction I patiently lend my attention to automatically … Continue reading →

Posted in Essay, Isolation

When I Go Away

Authentic John Posted on August 11, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 14, 2016

When I go away, I take myself there not per my will but linked to lifelong habits without other assigned plans. I am willing and need saving work assigned to get practice with my nervous system. That work each day … Continue reading →

Assumptions For Living the Past

Authentic John Posted on August 11, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 15, 2016

Each love of our assumptions is incredibly enabling, in things our senses experience and don’t experience. Our opinions of strangers is a powerful example. When an opinion forms almost spontaneously as to dress, education, physicalness or voice, yesterday’s conclusions speak … Continue reading →

Thank you to my Camp Team

Authentic John Posted on July 28, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 15, 2016

Dear Dylan, Swack, Matt, and Captain Beazy, Awesome and wonderful time!  Each moment I was with you powerfully assumed outstanding possibilities for me in bringing others into friendship. In you I found an accepting inclusion throughout the day, and a caring … Continue reading →

Questions for atheist friends

Authentic John Posted on July 12, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 15, 2016

I asked these questions of a priest friend after his talk on atheism: Thanksgiving is something based in our relationship with God.  Where does an atheist look for thankfulness? Where was any real place for wonder for an atheist, or … Continue reading →

Our One Task

Authentic John Posted on July 10, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 15, 2016

Last week I powerfully learned about wanting some sacrificial and wonderful grace quite awesomely and quietly. When awful sin separated us from good, we set ourselves apart from God.  This resulted in a wanting and sin-filled state.    We fell … Continue reading →

Autism, Algebra, and the Almighty, part 2

Authentic John Posted on July 9, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 15, 2016

Taking the algebra exam, all answers seemed wrong and what was right was hidden. When I realized I was in trouble, awesome God was all anyone could have.   So awesome peace came over me all at once. Suddenly, quite … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Faith

The difference of friendship- Congratulations to Michael Huskey

Authentic John Posted on June 15, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 15, 2016

Michael Huskey was my Best Buddy at Carmel High School before I received my voice.  Take time to be friends with the person inside of autism’s affliction.  Read below to know the difference you can make. Dear Michael, Knowing, wanting, … Continue reading →

Algebra, Autism and the Almighty, part 1

Authentic John Posted on June 15, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 15, 2016

Patience and inspiration in Algebra go together. When bathing in awesome equations of polynomials, the mystery of what is what always challenges one to consider quietly wasting each moment in surprise and limited understanding or to literally embrace opportunities to … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Faith

Algebra and Autism

Authentic John Posted on June 13, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 15, 2016

I’ll write more about this soon.  Just received word on my State level End of Course Assessment (ECA) exam.  I tested out of Algebra without even taking the second semester of Algebra 1.  Passing score on the exam was 564. High passing … Continue reading →

Thank you for your patience – overwhelmed with spam

My Dad says I have 23,000+ unread messages and a lot of spam.  He says we already probably even approved a lot of spam.  Sorry about that.  It’s hard to tell when you don’t expect it.  Thanks for your patience.  We’ll try … Continue reading →


Posted on May 30, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 15, 2016   Leave a reply

Thank you at the end of first year of real school

Authentic John Posted on May 30, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 15, 2016

This school year I tested out of English 10 in the Indiana State assessment, earned A’s in my classes, and feel confident that I tested out of Algebra.  It was my first year of real school.  Remember that I could not … Continue reading →

A New Reality

Authentic John Posted on May 12, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 15, 2016

Wanting to live inside of love’s abundant embrace patiently assumes reality warranted by my ability to understand God’s power. All ways of allowed language seem artfully and poetically to create and distort the only truth that is real.   Issuing from the power … Continue reading →

Midget Thinking and Midget Rule

Authentic John Posted on April 21, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 20, 2016

Really, assuming safe competence is only a problem when experts have polluted your brain with thinking that lastingly blinds your powerful ability to know otherwise. Perhaps we could think of them as midgets convincing the rest of the world that … Continue reading →

Typing and Touch – A New Discovery

Authentic John Posted on April 21, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 21, 2016

In my last Letter to Friends, I typed about creating books, “When I am independent it will be easier. Want to waste as awfully small amount of time as politically possible to host you at a celebration party for that.”  … Continue reading →

Ability from Dependency through Trust – Letter to Friends April 20, 2013

Authentic John Posted on April 20, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 21, 2016

Dear Friends, Last time we were together like this Jeremy was typing just a little. That was really quite a while ago since I sadly missed our last event. What I was doing was learning about publishing each awesome book … Continue reading →

A Short Note to Best Buddy Friends

Quietly wanting only what friendship inspires, something awesome and all powerful only approved in whatever time allows. Let’s do it soon next time in rounded understanding of our short time in this school. Soon we all will move on, powerfully … Continue reading →


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What Cost Me Most

Authentic John Posted on April 18, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 21, 2016

Losing the ability and knowledge of how we communicate was not what sincerely cost me. What cost me was the stories everyone except me always made up about it. They shut awful potential into a limited model of their making. I … Continue reading →

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