http://ianwetherbee.com/wetherblog A sit down and chat session with Ian Wetherbee about FC, autism, sports, politics or religion. Mon, 14 May 2007 21:19:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Longing to escape from my prison, longing to let someone know that I was very smart, longing to stop wasting my years in school and longing to say “I love you” to my family, I tried once again to alert someone to my predicament. My hopes for success weren’t ... http://ianwetherbee.com/wetherblog/index.php/2007/05/14/jackpot/ “Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.” Horace Mann, American Educator, 1796-1859. Good habits make everyone’s life easier. When faced with difficult situations, they allow us to react the right way without conscious thought, leaving us no ... http://ianwetherbee.com/wetherblog/index.php/2007/05/12/autism-survival-skills/ >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 ... http://ianwetherbee.com/wetherblog/index.php/2006/07/24/the-question-of-healing/ 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. http://ianwetherbee.com/wetherblog/index.php/2006/06/25/after-the-first-six-months/ 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 ... http://ianwetherbee.com/wetherblog/index.php/2006/06/20/designer-babies/ Here are chapters 10 thru 16. I hope you are enjoying this. A New School Experience http://ianwetherbee.com/wetherblog/index.php/2006/04/22/and-now-some-more/ 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 http://ianwetherbee.com/wetherblog/index.php/2006/04/15/22/ 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 http://ianwetherbee.com/wetherblog/index.php/2006/03/30/my-miracle/ 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 ... http://ianwetherbee.com/wetherblog/index.php/2006/03/25/how-miracles-can-happen/ 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 ... http://ianwetherbee.com/wetherblog/index.php/2006/02/20/iraq-%e2%80%93-bush%e2%80%99s-policy-is-working/