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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
All can assume wholeness and safe joy when communication truly assumes sacrificial appreciation about your sad quiet place in life together. copyright John Smyth 2013
Continue reading →Wanting personal communication was lost in isolation and will wait with suffering. Each sadly wailing parent only appreciates in silos of grief longing for the child in another silo longing for them, separated waste assumes as human thinking shapes all … Continue reading →
It will be learned in the future that people with autism last patiently in their bodies with complete mental competence. Waiting for this to be confirmed before looking for your child is sadly missing the years of his life while … Continue reading →
A few lines from my coming book: “We patient souls taking the path of no goals as no one believes in us or thinks we really have anything to contribute attach nothing to wants. Some of us have failed so … Continue reading →
Request for prayers for me to show the way to independence for others. I am trying to document the internal struggle for others to follow. It is hard. I am fighting my long secret assumptions and fears. Me arriving at neurologist Dr. McGuire’s: I’ve … Continue reading →
I recently finished writing my first book: “From Autism’s Prison—waking to the world of communication and relationship.” The book is currently being published, and should be available later this spring.
Continue reading →Connecting as friends on a whole new level, we are persons who had no way to communicate until someone introduced us to typing. We now meet each month to share our lives with each other and those who are interested. … Continue reading →
Letter to editor, Thanks for mentioning the spraying of odors in school, and excessive use around others of aftershave perfume-spraying and what willing attractive people do. For me, what easily seems fine to another gives me immeasurable pain sometimes. My … Continue reading →
My Dad said people who have known me, from waiters to my Grandmother and others, are all saying I am very different now than I was before I received my voice through typing. My Dad asked me about what I … Continue reading →
I was asked to advise a Mom whose son may be diagnosed by doctors as autistic last week. Here’s what I typed: (Caps original to emphasis) for her, “Take a deep and awesome breath. With ANY DIAGNOSIS COMES “TRUTH” FROM ANOTHER, … Continue reading →
Feb 15—Dad asked what me and my typing friends have to contribute to everyone. Here’s what I shared: “POWERFUL SPEAKING WOULD QUALIFY IF WE APPLIED OUR INSIGHTS, OBSERVATIONS, AND MEMORIES WITHOUT THE LIMITATIONS OF A BROKEN PHYSICAL CONDITION. WE APPLY A WORLD … Continue reading →
Dad asked me, “What do you say about where wants and selfishness come from?” Here’s my response: Wants are from seeing ourselves each differently from each other. With tasting the amazing differences in life, we say “some are loaded with … Continue reading →
Quietly, in a time of idle relaxation for successful farmers in the Tara-style mansions of western Russia, a winter was setting in. What these landowners could not know was that this winter would be their last. For generations they had … Continue reading →
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 →
Enrique’s Journey, by Sonia Nazario, published by Random House Trade Paperbacks, Random House, Inc., New York, copyright 2006 A Report by John Smyth, April 22, 2012 This story relates in amazing detail the travels of young men and women to … Continue reading →
I remember the sad time in lifeskills. waiting for someone and REALLY SEEING THAT THEY WOULD NEVER COME AND FIND ME, REALIZING I WAS TRAPPED IN A BODY THAT WAS A TOMB, TOTALLY REAFFIRMING AND POISONING ALL SADNESS INTO DESPAIR. … Continue reading →
Thinking of painting windows through which autistics see the world would be my choice of painting. Remembering the loneliness would make frost, ice, and cold darkness on one side. The warmth of love and communication would be eerily present but … Continue reading →
January 29, 2012 Today was an incredible day. After a particularly grueling period when people of every age and race spoke about concerns with the same things that I deal with, such as family relationships, love, security, and expressions of … Continue reading →
Neurofeedback breathing exercises help with reducing autistic tendencies. These exercises really work. Check out Dr. Tim Royer on YouTube and Google for more information. Also, google “breathing exercises for neurofeedback”.
Continue reading →When soldiers go to battle, they never go alone or without a plan. They carefully plan their attack with a strategic map. Their leader is in charge of carrying out the plan. He is the Warrior. My name is John … Continue reading →
The major themes of the book are personal rejection that Adeline experienced throughout her childhood by family, the time she spent learning and her great gifts for learning and connecting with people outside of her family, each person’s impact who … Continue reading →
There are reasons we cannot know about why we are born where we are or why I am with you here. Until coming to Brownsburg, I have been in the twin prisons of autism and isolation from participation. Now at … Continue reading →
Teaching about autism and intelligence, the cost of nonparticipation by so many, and the opportunities for us as a society is the focus of my life. Recently, I was rescued from the isolation of autism and noncommunication. Until I could … Continue reading →
