Choices

SUBLIMELY RIDICULOUS

Insights on Today's World

A Blog
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.

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.