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AMAZINGLY INTERESTING

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.

10/28/2025 1 Comment

The Downside of Empathy

It is fact that we feel everything at a higher level than speakers. We have more sensitive hearing, more sensory differences, and more heightened empathy. So when one of us is ok, we are all not ok.

Recently one of my good friends had to take a break from Mouth to Hand. He was having issues similar to mine. When Alex and I were unable to come here, everyone suffered. That is also the case with my friend: until he is ok, I can’t feel really happy. The thing is, I know in my heart that he’ll be ok eventually, and he’ll be back. So I try to comfort myself with that knowledge.

What really makes us upset is when people we love leave. We utterly love our friends.

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10/3/2025 0 Comments

The Conference Next Month

The really most amazing thing is happening next month. My best friend, Alex, is going to be on a panel of nonspeakers at the Children’s Health Defense conference in Austin, Texas. Attending this conference are important people, like Senator Rand Paul. We here at M2H are beyond thrilled. One of our own is being totally showcased! And to have all those important people see nonspeakers typing LIVE is the greatest thing ever.

We need help in so many ways. We suffer on the education front. We suffer on the medical front. We suffer on the spiritual front. Many of us feel that we have been ignored by the world that seems to care more about not hurting the feelings of the speakers with an autism diagnosis than helping us. We have voices now too…and to see us represented at this conference is beyond words wonderful.

The time has come to make changes to the established paradigm. We are not cognitively impaired. We are not socially impaired. We have bodies that have minds of their own. We can do so much with the right supports. And we are fed up with the way things are.