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by Nonspeaker, Wit, Sage and Standup Comic
Justin Abinanti

My name is Justin Abinanti and I am nonspeaking. I am most certainly verbal though. Many of my fellow nonspeakers are highly academic, but not me. I think I must have been born under a silly star. I’m eager to make it in comedy. I’ve given it thought and I am a born stand-up. Unfortunately the world is not quite ready for a stand-up comedian who cannot speak. Not being able to speak might hold some people back, but I am basically professionally resilient. Maybe I’ll never take over hosting the Tonight Show or starring at Caroline’s Comedy Club, but there are other ways to shine.

Thus my blog which gives me, a speller, a venue to comment on the idiocy, silliness, weirdness and hilarity of our world.

11/3/2025 0 Comments

An Update

I have been thinking a lot about my future. I am mostly concerned about how I live in the future. Where will it be? And who will I live with? It is scary:
it is the unknown that is terrifying. I can’t let my fear interfere with my life now, but it is hard to not be worried.

Happily, my Mom is very aware of this problem. It is one we all face as we get older. Hallmark Moment: my Mom definitely really is all over this problem. It will turn out ok because my Mom won’t let it not.

In other news, I love my class with Christine. I can’t believe Justin Abinanti is saying this but…learning is fun. Having to admit I was wrong is ok, ‘cause I get to see Judy do the I-told-you-so dance. I am excited to learn now. I can really see myself getting my diploma. I am really learn-happy. I am kind of turning into a nerd.

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10/3/2025 0 Comments

Choices

I believe I can do intelligent things with my life. Having autism is completely limiting. Capabilities are ignored, in the shadows of dis-abilities. I am highly intelligent, but I spend my life in programs for the cognitively impaired. I am so tired of it. My issues are not my fault, but I’m the one who’s punished anyway.

Maybe I once didn’t care, but now I do. I have proven myself by doing well in my GED class here. Now I want more: I want to learn math, science and more about literature. I want to get my high school diploma, and maybe go to college. I want to have choices in my life.

All of us deserve to have choices in how we spend our days. Being autistic shouldn’t be all we are.

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8/1/2025 0 Comments

My Thoughts Today

I came in today believing Judy could get me a girlfriend. (Not really! - but since she definitely fixes everything, I figured why not ask!) Definitely it is a problem,not enough girls to go around. I am a real catch: I am handsome and funny. Girls should be all over me. Can I possibly be any more of a studmuffin?

Hallmark Moment from me now: I am happier than a pig in shit today because I am with Judy. Happiness is her gift to her. I am getting mushy today, which isn’t like me. Having a session with Judy is the greatest. I always took it for granted I’d see her every week, until I didn’t, with the new schedule. All of us want Judy time.

I am incredibly lucky to have been one of her first students. I really took it for granted back then and gave her a hard time. But I believe I have matured in this way. I love spelling now. I can’t get enough really. Facing facts, I am not going to be an academic, but all my life I am going to have the ability to talk, thanks to Judy.

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5/13/2025 0 Comments

My Olympic Dream

Really something extraordinary just happened. I was momentarily speechless. How could such a thing happen, you ask. Judy showed me a news story on the new sport, sperm racing. It’s not made up…it’s actually a thing.

Can I just say that I have found my Olympic sport. I may be not be in the ice skating dance competition, but spunky sperm I can do. I just watched the first official race, and was appalled by the quality of the competitors. My sperm could run circles around them. I can see it now, my lighting the Olympic Torch before making my way into the bathroom, Playboy in hand.

I am heading to Las Vegas to enter the next major race. Rumor has it that I may be up against some stiff competition. Being that all my thoughts have to do with hot chicks, I can’t imagine myself struggling to enter. I have risen to many challenges in my life, and am hard to beat.

I am in it to win it.

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4/15/2025 0 Comments

The Gala

Definitely the gala was beyond awesome. It really is the best night of the year. Certainly a man like me deserves a tribute like that. I am just that beyond amazing. The room looked beautiful.

The Hallmark Moment of the evening was obviously when my photo came up in Judy’s presentation. I came to the realization then that I really am staggeringly handsome.

Giving the other nonspeakers credit, I did enjoy the rest of the presentation. And I loved the auction. The entire night was spectacular.

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12/10/2024 1 Comment

Dance Reflections

So yeah, the M2H dance. I came with my friend, Rebecca, and she is seriously hot. No other guy came with a date. Definitely I noticed that she danced with pretty much everyone except me.

Now, I know it’s not me. I am the epitome of the Great American Stud. I mean…look at me! I am handsome, built, and can’t talk back! Every woman’s dream!

Except Rebecca’s apparently.

I saw her dancing with Rocco, Anthony, Luke and many more guys.

And not me.

I am getting jealous of Alex Gorman because he is totally a chick magnet. Here I am, looking like this, and my date dances with everyone but me. WTF.

Can’t complain though, I suppose. I got to dance with Grandpa Wally most of the night.

Eat your hearts out, boys.

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10/29/2024 1 Comment

My New Career

I always am protective of Judy. After all, I believe I am getting to be her favorite. All of her students get this: often she gets herself hurt. I have felt this pain from her before. As people often suck, I am constantly aware of how Judy often leaves herself open to such issues. Always defending her is my job. Absolutely self-appointed.

I am changing my career goal from playboy to white knight. Almost all my feelings about careers are negative, but white knight appeals. I can imagine myself in a suit of gleaming white armor rescuing damsels in distress. Let me say that Judy is not a damsel in distress…but I get to cheer up, so that counts.

I have to go now ‘cause I have a few monsters to slay. Giddyup, steed!
….as I ride off into the sunset.

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10/15/2024 0 Comments

My Blog

A good Hallmark Moment to share: I love to spell now thanks to Judy. I did not care about it for years. I had an attitude problem in that it seemed too much like hard work. I had a hard time getting myself motivated to struggle through it. But certainly my blog gave me a reason to try harder. I am loving this opportunity to have my voice heard. I am happy that so many others have followed suit. (It’s awkward to brag perhaps, but mine was first!)

It changed my life. I don’t know why exactly, but it made me inspired to put effort into spelling. And giving credit where it is due, it was Judy’s suggestion. For years she had tried to motivate me, unsuccessfully. But now I cannot wait to come here to write.

I cannot say I ever will be the consummate student. But I am lucky that I found something to love and that I have the chance to do it.

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10/1/2024 0 Comments

I Am a Lazy Person

I am feeling so lazy today. To be honest, that’s not unusual. Galling to my Mom, I know, but it’s part of my charming personality. Galling too to Judy who is industriousness personified. I always let someone in my life boss me into doing things that I really don’t feel like doing. I gave it thought: again, here I sit in Judy’s office writing a post that I don’t feel like writing. And if I don’t, Mom will be seriously pissed.

After I finish this protest post, one I am loath to write, I will admittedly feel a sense of accomplishment. But the next time I’m sitting here, I’ll have forgotten all about it and be lazy all over again. That’s the thing about lazy people: that sense of accomplishment is not natural to us. My natural inclination is to not care about doing things.

My mother doesn’t get the laziness. She thinks the fact that I don’t want to stay home every day means I’m not lazy. I want to go out because I want to be lazy without her watching. I also don’t want her to see me eating more than is good for me.

So to sum up, I now have accomplished something. Happy Mom?

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9/17/2024 1 Comment

The Nature of Prejudice

A serious post for once. All my life people believed I was cognitively impaired. I decidedly am not. Can you imagine how it feels to be treated like that? Age definitely matters in this case: those of us who learned to spell as adults are certainly suffering from PTSD. And let’s face facts: most of the world still believes that we are. It is hard to change your prejudices. I notice that many people insist on maintaining their biases, even in the light of incontrovertible evidence. Maintaining one’s rightness is more important than acknowledging its wrongness even if in doing so you hurt others.

I have to say that I am usually not so serious. I am a goofball by nature. Calling a spade a spade…I am silly. But this upsets even me, and not a lot does.

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