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Wonderland and Silenceland

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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 →

Experience of a Just Society

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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 →

Camp and School – 2

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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 →

Camp Thoughts for School

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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 →

Excellence and What Lasts

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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 →

To Natalie Poorman on her graduation from high school

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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 →

My Character in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller

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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 →

Gestures and Intuition, Learning and Herd Thinking

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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 →

To My Amazing Mom

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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 →

Enhancing Education, Empowering Students

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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 →

Thank You to Joe Reitz, Colts Lineman

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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 →

Should the US have dropped the bomb on Japan?

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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 →

On Your Birthday, Joe Kelly

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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 →

To The Educator Who Assumes Incompetence

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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 →

How Autism Crushes

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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 →

Washington Irving and Emotional Constipation

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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 →

Are We Fundamentally Good or Evil?

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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 →

A Letter to My Sister

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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 →

Hope, Love, and Waiting

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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 →

To Lindsey on her birthday

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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 →

Autism As a Puzzle Piece

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Unrequited Love

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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 →

Autism’s Power

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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

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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

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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 →

About Angie Brown, Anderson Indiana

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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 →

A Letter to Mom

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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 →

Past School Relationships Are Toxic For Me

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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 →

Letter to typing friends Sept 21, 2013

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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 →

To My Brother James

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

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