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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.

1/30/2026 0 Comments

Gala Excitement is Building

The M2H gala is still 2 ½ months away, and I am already excited. It is the best night of the year. For those of you who have never been, you are in for a treat.

The most wonderful part is Judy’s presentation of us. It always makes me emotional in so many ways: I feel the most wonderful combination of pride and happiness. The pride is twofold: I feel proud to be an M2Her, and proud of everything I have accomplished over the course of the year. To be celebrated for who we really are, not for who we never were, is glorious.

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12/5/2025 1 Comment

The Times, They Are a’Changin’

I have been thinking about how the world is changing. I have been spelling for only about three years, but in that time, I have seen improvements. When I started at M2H, there were probably about thirty of us. Now there are a hundred. That means that not only are people hearing about this, they believe it is real. What is remarkable about that is that this is in spite of ASHA’s continued protests.

That is heartening.

I sat there watching my best friend, Alex, on stage at the sold-out CHD Conference, and thought, “Wow! That is another thousand people who now believe in spelling.” (Judy just told me that another thousand people watched online.)

It won’t be long before the Communication Bill of Rights is passed in New York, I hope. That would mean that we could demand to use our letterboards and keyboards in schools and other government-run institutions. The thing is, that would mean that the children in schools might not need to suffer the way we older guys did.

So yeah, the world is slowly changing. I wonder what the next three years will bring?

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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.

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9/23/2025 1 Comment

An Update: 9/23/25

Today, an update: I am taking the same medicine that Alex is on, and for the first time, I can tell it’s working. The OCD is still raging, but the anger is slowly improving. Unfortunately, because of these liver tests, which have been elevated, I can’t go up faster. But even so, I can tell that I am getting less and less angry.

The relief is profound. The scariest thing on earth is to know that at any moment you might snap and hurt someone. It’s really terrifying. And like I’ve said before, the guilt is overwhelming.

I am so grateful that my Mom listened to me. She took me to the best psychiatrist and got me help. I am getting better and Alex is better, and that means that soon we can move into our bro house. It will be party central.

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9/9/2025 0 Comments

Let’s Talk Medicine

Medicines can be so frustrating. We go through so many and it always takes so long to see if the darn thing even works. Meanwhile we are suffering. We are causing suffering for the people that love us. I feel bad for those who are suffering and can’t tell anyone. I hope those people have parents that will get them the help they need. There is no shame in asking for help. Please don't give up on us. We sometimes need that extra help to even get us to baseline.

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8/18/2025 1 Comment

Advice To Parents

Here is the update on my medicine journey.
I am taking fifty milligrams of clozapine twice a day. It is totally helping but the dose is still very low. For the first time in forever, I am feeling hopeful. I can feel the OCD starting to fade a tiny bit, and the anger too. Feeling angry feels awful to me. That is even worse than the OCD because it makes me aggressive. When I punch people, even though I can’t help it, I feel sick inside after the anger goes away. The guilt and shame are so awful there are no words.
I am so relieved that my parents took me to see Dr. Minhas. He is way the best psychiatrist ever.
So advice to parents: to take your child to the psychiatrist is not shameful. It is an act of mercy. We do not want to feel OCD and angry and aggressive. We are suffering, and when we do something aggressive or destructive, we suffer even more because we are ashamed and guilty…even though we can’t help it.
So please take advice from a nonspeaker who is on this journey. Soon my whole life will be better and happier because I won’t be suffering anymore.

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7/21/2025 0 Comments

My New Life is Starting

This post is actually great news. I have recently begun to see a new psychiatrist who has been a god-send to many of us here at M2H. He tried to up my last medicine, but when that didn’t work he changed my medicine to something that has helped many of us here.

Just as Judy predicted, about 2 weeks in I started to improve. It’s very early days, and I am on a low dose, but already I am less OCD and anxious. I was able to go to my classes here last week without blowing up. For the first time in forever I was able to play games with the other guys. And I was able to get out of the house without beating up my Mom. I was able to go out with my Dad even.

So summing up: this doctor and this medicine are changing my life for the better. No one else actually helped me, ever. I am so happy and relieved, because my life was awful. And the aggression toward my family was killing me inside.

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6/13/2025 0 Comments

The Medicine Journey: An Update

Why are so many medicines bad for me? My Mom and I have been trying for years to find the right meds. So far nothing has stopped the OCD and anger on a permanent basis. At times I have felt better, only to have it fade away. There has to be a medicine that can stop me from getting angry.

The angry episodes have certainly gotten worse over time. I just explode for no reason. I have punched my parents hard, and my brother too. The remorse afterwards defies description. I can’t bear the guilt.

My new psychiatrist wants to give the medicine a few weeks more. I am not sure I can make it. I blew up in music appreciation today, and that’s my favorite time of the week. Now I’m with Judy, my favorite person, and the anger is coming in waves. I am not myself at all.

I still believe that there is a medicine that can help me. I just wish the process of finding it were easier.

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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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