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D.4. Art Therapy

Authentic John Posted on July 16, 2018 by John SmythJuly 16, 2018

I was asked to write about Art Therapy. Here are my thoughts:   Evidence of art therapy goes back to the Paleolithic Age in Spain and France, approximately 40,000 years ago, when horses were a popular form of self-expression on … Continue reading →

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D.1. What is abnormal

Authentic John Posted on July 16, 2018 by John SmythJuly 16, 2018

In Abnormal Psychology, we read about the case of Mr. Zell Kravinsky in light of how each define behavior as “abnormal.” His case is available online. Here are my thoughts about labeling him:   Power lives in the gift of … Continue reading →

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Term Essay – Sound, Light, and Health

Authentic John Posted on July 16, 2018 by John SmythJuly 16, 2018

This paper explores intimately profound experiences in dimensions of sound and light and how they relate to stress. Now that I hear through both ears, I am operating as a different person. I am quietly discovering new ways to hold … Continue reading →

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This Morning You Woke With Autism, and You Can’t Speak – Pt 4

Authentic John Posted on October 19, 2016 by John SmythOctober 19, 2016

With every autistic nonverbal communicator who uses words to communicate rather than the silly pictures forced on them in life skills, comes a keyboard. Is a simple keyboard just letters in a pattern? For kept-silent mutants of autism, it is … Continue reading →

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This Morning You Woke With Autism, and You Can’t Speak – Pt 3

Authentic John Posted on October 19, 2016 by John SmythOctober 19, 2016

Great love develops patiently within what lost humanity has sorted as so much impossibility. By God’s grace, someone discovered your ability to communicate by typing. Now you want to be known within the family of talkers as able, but the … Continue reading →

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This Morning You Woke With Autism, and You Can’t Speak – Pt 2

Authentic John Posted on October 19, 2016 by John SmythOctober 19, 2016

Yesterday’s traumas of assault on secured rights to an education inseparate from others are operative from the day of your diagnosis. While quiet incompetence is demonstrated by most speakers, what your subculture has is behavior reports and weak potent testing … Continue reading →

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This Morning You Woke With Autism, and You Can’t Speak – Pt 1

Authentic John Posted on October 19, 2016 by John SmythOctober 19, 2016

An Essay by John Smyth, October 11, 2016 Your body doesn’t work as it should. Only your senses inspire confidence. What sounds or smells normal is magnified ten times with no buffer from effects. Sight sees shiny brightness and glare … Continue reading →

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The Nonverbal Autistic’s Guide to Aeronautics and Love

Authentic John Posted on October 17, 2016 by John SmythOctober 19, 2016

An Essay by John Smyth, September 19, 2016 1. Who Says You Can’t Fly? Nonverbal autistics always hold a “trapped” perspective about life. We are generally oppressed physically and socio-economically, denied educations, and prepared for institutional warehousing until our deaths. … Continue reading →

Posted in About, Autism, Blog, Competence, Essay, Friends, Isolation

From Waste to Wonder: The Journey of Our Souls – Part 2, A Call to Action

Authentic John Posted on August 26, 2015 by John SmythNovember 16, 2015

This is the conclusion of the presentation my dad and I gave at the Syracuse University Institute on Communication and Inclusion (ICI) Summer Institute on July 29, 2014. Read “From Waste to Wonder: The Journey of Our Souls – Part … Continue reading →

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From Waste to Wonder: The Journey of Our Souls – Part 1, A Search for Acceptance and Equality

Authentic John Posted on August 25, 2015 by John SmythNovember 16, 2015

My dad and I gave this presentation at the Syracuse University Institute on Communication and Inclusion (ICI) Summer Institute on July 29, 2014 From Waste to Wonder, Part 1: A Search for Acceptance and Equality Working with power would have … Continue reading →

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Amazing Opportunities to Grow

Authentic John Posted on November 10, 2014 by John SmythOctober 30, 2015

This is an article for my next story in the school paper: “Patient power, with gifts quietly living in each of us, sleeps peacefully. Its mate, lasting love nurtures each of our beings. Life is in our corner and cheers … 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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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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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 →

Posted in Friends, Isolation

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 →

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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 →

We Pretend

Authentic John Posted on April 11, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 27, 2016

No words can express my upset for how powerful we can be if we talk about what the awesome needs of wanting a terrific voice are rather than our little opinions. When I hear most conversation around me, it seems more … Continue reading →

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The Lost Gift, a Poem

Authentic John Posted on April 11, 2013 by John SmythJanuary 27, 2016

The video for this poem was narrated by my dad, Jim. The Lost Gift By John Smyth Wanting personal communication was lost in isolation and will wait with suffering. Each sadly wailing parent only appreciates in silos of grief longing … Continue reading →

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Lifeskills Stories

Authentic John Posted on July 31, 2012 by John SmythJanuary 12, 2016

Taking another’s time was Henry’s way quite predictably and regularly of mixing up the schedule and sending aides and teachers amazingly back to their calendars for review of where they were.  Teachers thought something was wrong as he screamed and … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Isolation, Uncategorized | Tagged education

Videos of me typing A Voice for All essay, 3-5-2011.

Authentic John Posted on February 19, 2012 by John SmythJanuary 12, 2016

This was my 3rd essay.  I was more autistic then than I am now.  Everyone says I communicate better now than when I was just coming out of my isolation.  Follow the keystrokes and see me create parts of the essay … Continue reading →

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Story about a problem – my first essay

Authentic John Posted on February 18, 2012 by John SmythJanuary 12, 2016

My problem was that I didnt know how to communicate with the outside world. I wanted to, but just couldnt seem to figure out how. I needed the help of the outside world and to find someone who believed in … Continue reading →

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