For today's blog, Sarah and I made another Vlog - so that you can see what it takes for us to write out one of my blog posts... You can view it here:
We also included the text below:
Today, I want to share with you what it is like to spend your whole life
without talking out loud.
It’s frustrating to have thoughts, ideas, feelings that you can only express
when someone thinks to pick up an alphabet board.
Sometimes, waiting is incredibly irritating.
By the time I get a chance to speak, the subject is often changed.
When you are non-verbal, people assume you are stupid.
As if everyone who can speak is always intelligent.
It takes so much patience from me, my family, my friends, for me to communicate.
I wish I could hear myself speak. I wonder what I would sound like.
Singing! I sing in my head all the time.
I wish I could sing with my friends when they are singing Great Big Sea to me.
What a dream - to sing with Sarah and her guitar out in the park.
~ A.T.
