Our Lost Promise

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.

5/9/2025 0 Comments

Our Lost Promise

I know that Alex has been depressed lately. He is always happy so that is particularly distressing to me. All of us are intelligent, but he is in a class unto himself. He is feeling that heartbreak that we all feel: that we will never be what we should have been.

I too think about this all the time. It is our tragedy. He is mourning the Alex that should have been. And then those speaking people with autism blast RFK for daring to suggest that we need a cure.

Alex is a hero to all of us here. But he should have been a hero to mankind, because he has the brilliance and heart. All of us were capable of doing so much. I just hope something happens soon to allow us to fulfill even a fraction of that promise.