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>Until I get to heaven, I will probably always be autistic, yet I am in no hurry to leave this life. Nobody can walk in my shoes but me, so no one is able to experience my silence of speech and inside-of-my-body thoughts but me, so most people don’t think my life is […]

We meet other kids who can talk using FC
Here are some of my favorite chapters from our book. They bring back some poignient memories.

Designer babies I
Designer babies II
Above are two links to a new controversy. It seems that doctors can do in-vitro fertilization and determine the sex of an embryo before inserting it into the uterus. This has already been done to “screen out” embryos of either gender with genetically identifiable diseases that are fatal at a […]

Here are chapters 10 thru 16. I hope you are enjoying this.
A New School Experience

Here are chapters 2 thru 9. I forgot to say that there are excerpts in these chapters written by my mom, brother and school facilitator. Enjoy —
The Earliest Days

Here is chapter 1 and the Introduction to the book. Remember that my words are in Italics and that I was quite new to using Facilitated Communication.
Introduction & Chapter1

Below is a link to the prologue to a book that I helped my dad write when I was first beginning to use FC. I was thirteen and had not talked since I was two. Dad wrote the entire prologue. I will add the remainder of the book in later posts, chapter […]

It is quite probable that Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction and managed to move them out of the country before the allied invasion. Really, it doesn’t matter if they did or not. Bush realized that Saddam Hussein was a threat […]

Some FC users who were echolalic (at best) can now read what they have written aloud.

FC allows the FC users to point to things like letters on a letter board or keyboard or to pictures or to words like “yes” or “no”, which they couldn’t otherwise point to on their own.

Facilitated Communication is a method of communication, not a communication device.