We Need Tech Support

People don’t understand that we are intelligent. Because we never talked more than a few baby words before we regressed, no one in the greater community understands that we have normal language. We need people to believe we are intelligent, have language, and have independent ideas. If they did, there would be more help coming. 

The fact that they believe we are profoundly cognitively impaired ultimately means that resources should not be wasted on us. Why build communication systems for people who have no language to communicate? 

That is our tragedy, and it is why organizations like ASHA are so destructive. Instead of using their power and influence to get us means of independent communication, they stick us with infantile apps and tell the world how cognitively disabled we really are. 

I want to talk by myself  more than anything on earth. Typing without a CP is insanely difficult. I am working on it but it is hard and frustrating, and even if I could do it, it is slow. We need technology like Stephen Hawking had. I will hold out hope that someday soon we will get it.