Fortunate Me

I am totally into songwriting and poetry. I am so lucky to have the opportunity to learn and create. I am learning about Wordsworth now. We are reading poems like Resolution and Independence, Tinturn Abbey, and Intimations of Immortality…


I love it so much. 

No one thought it possible that I could have normal intelligence. For so long I really had no hope. But here I am now, reading Wordsworth. And I can analyze his use of meter or anaphora or epizeuxis. (My Mom has no idea what any of that means!) 

That’s the thing about Mouth to Hand.  Everyone here acts like our disabilities don’t matter. I am so eager to learn, and here I finally can. There are no words to express how that feels. I am fumbling right now trying to express it. It’s like that moment when the sun comes out from behind the clouds. Our lives are so immeasurably improved being here. I am so lucky.

There are so many people with Fragile X who will never have what I do. That makes me so sad - but it also makes me so grateful. I am loved and valued here.