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BY MARC MUHLMEISTER

My name is Marc Muhlmeister, and I have fragile X which means, by definition, I am cognitively impaired. That just goes to show how meaningless definitions are because I am most certainly not cognitively disabled. And now that I can talk by spelling, I believe that I can be a spokesman for others like me. All people who are nonspeaking are defined by that inability. It’s a wrong that must be righted. I am to be a voice for change.

4/30/2025 1 Comment

Poetry and Me

I am particularly happy these days because I get to learn very interesting things. I am in a new poetry class here at M2H. I have started to learn how to read and analyze poems. Last week Judy spent time explaining to us what romanticism in poetry means. She read parts of Wordsworth’s preface to Lyrical Ballads. His descriptions of who are poets really struck me. He says that they are people who feel more than ordinary. They think deeply about things, and then the poetry flows from them.

I realized, sitting there, that I am essentially a poet. I am only one of many here who fit that description. We tend to feel more than is typical. And we often let those feelings flow from us in the forms of poetry.

It is not a surprise that so many of us love that class. It is the best subject on earth.

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4/9/2025 0 Comments

The Bar Mitzvah

Alex’s bar mitzvah may have been the best day of my life. I’m not even sure I am able to express what it was like to be there in that synagogue. It really might have been God there, because there was certainly something in the air. It may very well have had the most profound effect ever on us. I struggle to stay regulated in new places, having horrific anxiety. But I loved being in that synagogue. It was like magic there. To see one of us on the bema typing out the Torah, was beyond. I felt myself wanting to cry with joy. I have to believe that there really are things we can do that I thought impossible.