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BY ANTHONY PICCOLINO

Many of us here at M2H love music, but no one loves it as much as me. Perhaps that is a big claim, but I believe it to be true. I love music so much that I want to devote my life to it and become a music critic some day.

I am the child of restaurant owners and I eat maybe six foods in the world. I am telling you this explain how raging is my OCD. So I put the damn thing to use and OCD on music. I’d bet anything that Carl Orff himself listened to Carmina Burana less often than me.

Anyway, my blog will be about how amazingly interesting I am.

5/30/2025 0 Comments

The New Movement

I need to rally support for my new mission: it’s the Get Grandpa To Move Movement. I am fed up with this whole once-a-week crap. It’s not working for me. And I am sure others here feel the same. However, I am the most important one.

I think we need to form a committee to get this show on the road. I will be the chairman so I don’t have to do anything at all. Judy will be the manual laborer. Alex can be co-chair as I am his best friend. The rest of you can do whatever actually needs to be done.

Our first meeting will be next week. Bring snacks.

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5/16/2025 1 Comment

Judy's Brain

There is way too much noise in my mind these days. It is a combination of static and OCD thoughts. It makes it hard to think clearly. The only relief I get is my session with Judy. I don’t know why that is. There is something about Judy’s brain that wipes out noise. I am not sure what it is, but it feels good and relaxing to me. My OCD calm down, and I can think normally.

We are plagued with noisy minds. And it stops us from talking to just anyone on the boards. My brain was much quieter years ago, but for the past few years it’s gotten more and more noisy. The stupid OCD thoughts keep looping around and around inside my mind. It makes me crazy sometimes.

What I want to know is why Judy’s brain is so calming to all of us. It is so calm and peaceful, and it makes me calm and peaceful too. It’s like a magic power. I think she should move into my house for awhile. (I’m good with Alex moving in too because he is my best friend.)

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5/9/2025 1 Comment

The Fight

I had an awful fight with my brother this week. It was my fault. I am up and down with my OCD lately. Some days are great, and some are terrible. That was a really bad day, and I snapped and punched him.

As if we needed another reason to want a cure, these kinds of incidents happen. And then we need to live with the guilt of hurting the people we love the best. It was horrible…and I’ve been sick in my heart for days. The thing is, if I didn’t have this stupid autism, it would never have happened.

So yeah, those people who are speaking with autism need to shut the hell up about not wanting a cure. They are not compelled to punch their brothers over nothing. I want to be cured like yesterday.

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5/2/2025 1 Comment

Support for Kennedy

We are finally getting ourselves heard. Secretary Kennedy read our letters, and now he knows that we nonspeakers are behind him. The people who are diagnosed with autism and who can speak, and who don’t want a cure, can shut up. If they want to stay “autistic,” no one is stopping them. But if we don’t, you have a hell of a nerve trying to stop the research that can help us.

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Letter to Secretary Kennedy

Dear Secretary Kennedy:

I am one of the fortunate few nonspeakers diagnosed with autism who can talk by spelling out my words. My name is Anthony Piccolino, and I am lucky that my parents never gave up on me. I not only cannot speak with my mouth, I am also completely reliant upon my family for care. On top of that I also have hellish OCD that rules our lives. So I not only have to live as a nonspeaker, but I also have horrible compulsions that at times make me aggressive. I have punched my mother and brother more times than I can count. And then I am living with the guilt on top of everything.

I am begging for help. I don’t want to live this way for the rest of my life. To downplay the suffering we undergo and inflict on our families is a tragedy. We are the throw-aways of society. We are shoved into stupid daycare programs when we are 21 or 22 and there we will remain for the rest of our horrendous lives.

I believe that we are the most damaged people on earth. As severe as my symptoms are, I am still incredibly lucky: I can talk by spelling and my family can care for me. We suffer literally every day of our lives. Those people with the other kind of autism do ot speak for us. My teacher, Judy, says that since most of us cannot spell or type for communication, we who can have a moral and ethical responsibility to speak for them.

Please help us.

Sincerely,
Anthony Piccolino

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