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I am More Than My Body
Wavering, derelict shouts hold different ideas about want. Careening words push and shove their way out of my mouth, the chatter cannot be reined in no matter how hard I try. My mind is a starving...
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Learning to Believe
Needing time to learn, understanding concepts and refining techniques are all done on separate timelines. Best to approach each with curiosity and patience, with a large dose of belief in the other...
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Hindering Progress
Digging through ghostly shards pummeling the words that shout from within understanding too much, the vice grip of constant anxiety offers the spoken words access that no one can fully know. I fight...
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Beep. Leave a Message
Beep. Waiting for a message that cannot find its way from brain to muscles that connect to sounds we know to be recognizable words with understood context. They elude, slipping and sliding they have no...
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Time To Dance
Hearing music alleviates anxiety and welcomes dappled drops clasping gleeful feelings, radiating inward and outward simultaneously. Like bursts of intense flavor, music explodes in the body. Only a...
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Food: Friend or Foe?
Food understands emotions in ways no words can, but sometimes the body disagrees and chaos ensues. Mind begins to roar and everyone feels misunderstood. Trying to appease all parties is impossible....
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Don’t Be Blue
Mom prepares me, but nothing can inoculate fear colored blue masked in lights, shining brightly. The terror seeps through. Awareness disguised as tolerance is not the same as love. An uneasy embrace...
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When Awareness Harms
Let’s talk about needing green minds, eager thinking, waiting for butter to spread onto toast. Let’s talk about excitable pink ideas, ah-ha moments of lovely surprise filling the cavernous space of...
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The Fan Stays Off
Seeds there Virulent shoots hamper process ingrates they throw everything into chaos, disruptive and noisy I shout the same thought weeding out the bad from the stillness. Whispering calm directives –...
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Poetry is Ballet in Words
Poetry is ballet in words. Graceful, agile words, yawning and leaping while whispering and shouting all at once. The ending is the beginning like water colors I had no access to any of it no way to...
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Life and Expectations
Wading into the world takes achingly long when comparing the expectation with the reality. Vibrant expectations swirl and dance a tempting flurry of ease and take no time to build the skills needed in...
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Educating Resting Minds (The Documentary: Unspoken)
Educating resting minds means patient repetition of mobile thinking. My mind is lightning fast in a body whose parts often do things that give people a different impression. How best to sway doubting...
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A Language I am Fluent in
Gazing hungrily at the docking station that cradles my iPhone, I can already hear in my head the first song I will play. It is a charge surging through my body. It’s electric. It’s stars that shower...
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I am Emma
“What is your name?” someone might ask. It’s a simple question, but when I try to make the sounds that form my name, other words push and shove their way forward. Instead, “you may not spit,” or...
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Can Speech Challenged Students Get an Appropriate Education?
What would you do if the whimper in your heart could not find the right words to speak? What if you couldn’t control the things you felt compelled to say, even if you knew those who heard you...
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Have Your Voice Heard!
For my Research and Writing English class this year I have to write a paper on a topic of my choice that weaves data and data analysis with factually based interpretation of that data. My research...
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“To what extent is it possible to compare the ways in which methods of communication are being taught to autistic students who cannot use spoken language to communicate their complex ideas?”...
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