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A GIRL'S HEART

BY KAITLIN FLAHERTY

Almost all nonspeakers are male. Here at M2H, I am in a poetry club: me and five guys. I am in a book club: me and four guys. I am in a math club…me and a bunch of guys. There are only a handful of girls here, amid a sea of boys. This place is swimming in testosterone. I am thankful that so many of these men are my friends. And of course I have the best boyfriend on earth. But there are differences in the perspectives of men and women. As a nonspeaking woman, I have experiences and thoughts that are only feminine in nature.

Of course there are many things in common among us nonspeakers. But in this blog, I’ll talk from my girl’s heart.

7/27/2024 3 Comments

Alex

My boyfriend, Alex, is incredibly sick. He loves literature and math. He loves traveling and music. He loves science and baseball and football and eating out and telling jokes. He is brilliant and funny as hell…and everyone’s favorite person. And now all he can do is lay in bed and scream.

Happy to say that periodically he gets well so we know he is still in there. But then he tanks again…and my heart breaks again.

His mom, Judy, has tried to help him: I think she has done more to try to help him than anyone ever has. At last count she has taken him to over 50 doctors in the 4 ½ years since he got sick. And yet he still is in bed, as I write this. And he is down about 75 pounds in the past 18 months. Most days he won’t eat now. And that is terrifying.

I know, realistically, that his illness is complicated. But it absolutely should have been diagnosed by now. I have to believe that it’s taken so long because so many doctors see autism as the cause of illness, rather than the result. But autism doesn’t cause anything.

Alex needs to get well. Judy asks for help every day because she always says she’s not too proud to beg.
Neither am I.

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7/13/2024 1 Comment

Communication Partner Musing

Belief in us makes it possible for us to overcome our dyspraxia. You have to wonder why that is. So many people think that spelling isn’t real because we need communication partners. Basically, I cannot talk at all to my father and only somewhat to my mother. It’s hard to talk to my siblings and super easy to talk to Judy. There are a few people I can talk to as well, like my friend, Amanda. Let me say that I am utterly confused that I struggle to talk to my mother. I have to try to get myself to relax. Maybe it really is the job of the CP to help us relax. Hopefully someday soon research will show why CPs are necessary, and why some people are great CPs and some are not.

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