Flash
7th March 2011, 21:32
I would like with this thread to give a place to great people, creators, survivors, and others that have not had public awareness given to them but showed extraordinary spirit. Those that will be the heroes of the change towards a better world. I would like to thank them for their presence on this planet and for the difference they make locally.
Your are, avalonians, invited here to post the actions, work or accomplishment of the people you admire, but that we almost never speak about.
I will start with my own daughter, showing you a writing of hers, with her permission for sharing here of course.
This is a prose/poem from my 14 years old daughter, typed by me, keeping in the mistakes, despite the word self corrector that did not stop correcting!
I am so soooo proud of her. She is one of the most hard working student I ever met. She told me she would prove the world that aphasic children could do wonders and go to University.
At 4 she was saying, with her little very limited vocabulary at the time, that she was here to save the planet – to which her down to earth mother answered: “start by saving your cat, the planet will take care of itself”. I tought it was way too much for her, thinking like that at 4.
She also writes her own music and the paroles of her own songs, full of sensitivity.
Here she comes:
“Dear Diary,
I’m so tired of being asphasic. I just want to talk normally and to have a normal life. But I can’t. The only thing I could do is dream about a better life.
If only my dream world in my head was real... I would speak normally... I would have friends that exepts me with or without my brain injury...
But real life is not like that. I try to keep this a secret. Because if I tell, some of my dear friends will get the wrong idea... And I will never see them again.
I try to explain that I’m not mentaly crazy. But I can never find the right words...
I can’t find the right words because of my asphasia.
Sometimes I wish I could be free.. . And go to this wonderfull place called heaven... But the only way to get there is too hard for me.
So I will keep diging in this dark tunnel. And hope to find light in the end.
On my way, I try to distract myself. But I keep getting reminded of my asphasia with all my treatments.
And I can’t do anything but cry. So that’s what I do. I cry knowing that I’m going to live this everyday of my life.
I wish this to nobody. Nobody diserves to be called stupid like me.
Nobody diserves to have to make an effort to say a sentence.
Nobody diserves to have trouble like me.
Nobody diserves to have a hard life like me...
Trying hard to say a sentence is starting to get exausting.
Trying to hide it is getting more exausting. But I have to if I want to keep my friends. If I want people to approach me...
Sometimes I do feel stupid. I know that I’m not stupid. But not being able to say my ideas out loud makes me feel stupid.
I guess that this whole page is just me, talking about my feelings twoard this problem.
I don’t know how is going to end up reading this...
But now that I wrote it down, I feel better...
Better not signing my name... Just in case.”
Most partial or full aphasic children do not finish primary school, because schooling is mainly based on language abilities. Less succeed in high school. Self confidence also takes a hike.
Most, even with the best parents helping them, have trouble making it in groups, socializing, understanding what is going on when a group of people communicate together, and most are soooo eager to communicate you would not believe.
Yet most of them are of normal intelligence (or above).
In my idea, aphasics and autistics should be helped when coming in a forum like this one, what they bring to the world is just sometimes incredible.
So please, for my daughter and all those having problems with the written or spoken words, do forgive grammatical mistakes and do ask for clarification. Sometimes they do not realize they misscommunicated.
If she gives me the permission, I may post other creations of hers, music amongst others,
Thanks for reading,
Anyone else has extraordinary stories about wonderful unknown creators or survivors???? Young or old??? You can post their strory here.
Your are, avalonians, invited here to post the actions, work or accomplishment of the people you admire, but that we almost never speak about.
I will start with my own daughter, showing you a writing of hers, with her permission for sharing here of course.
This is a prose/poem from my 14 years old daughter, typed by me, keeping in the mistakes, despite the word self corrector that did not stop correcting!
I am so soooo proud of her. She is one of the most hard working student I ever met. She told me she would prove the world that aphasic children could do wonders and go to University.
At 4 she was saying, with her little very limited vocabulary at the time, that she was here to save the planet – to which her down to earth mother answered: “start by saving your cat, the planet will take care of itself”. I tought it was way too much for her, thinking like that at 4.
She also writes her own music and the paroles of her own songs, full of sensitivity.
Here she comes:
“Dear Diary,
I’m so tired of being asphasic. I just want to talk normally and to have a normal life. But I can’t. The only thing I could do is dream about a better life.
If only my dream world in my head was real... I would speak normally... I would have friends that exepts me with or without my brain injury...
But real life is not like that. I try to keep this a secret. Because if I tell, some of my dear friends will get the wrong idea... And I will never see them again.
I try to explain that I’m not mentaly crazy. But I can never find the right words...
I can’t find the right words because of my asphasia.
Sometimes I wish I could be free.. . And go to this wonderfull place called heaven... But the only way to get there is too hard for me.
So I will keep diging in this dark tunnel. And hope to find light in the end.
On my way, I try to distract myself. But I keep getting reminded of my asphasia with all my treatments.
And I can’t do anything but cry. So that’s what I do. I cry knowing that I’m going to live this everyday of my life.
I wish this to nobody. Nobody diserves to be called stupid like me.
Nobody diserves to have to make an effort to say a sentence.
Nobody diserves to have trouble like me.
Nobody diserves to have a hard life like me...
Trying hard to say a sentence is starting to get exausting.
Trying to hide it is getting more exausting. But I have to if I want to keep my friends. If I want people to approach me...
Sometimes I do feel stupid. I know that I’m not stupid. But not being able to say my ideas out loud makes me feel stupid.
I guess that this whole page is just me, talking about my feelings twoard this problem.
I don’t know how is going to end up reading this...
But now that I wrote it down, I feel better...
Better not signing my name... Just in case.”
Most partial or full aphasic children do not finish primary school, because schooling is mainly based on language abilities. Less succeed in high school. Self confidence also takes a hike.
Most, even with the best parents helping them, have trouble making it in groups, socializing, understanding what is going on when a group of people communicate together, and most are soooo eager to communicate you would not believe.
Yet most of them are of normal intelligence (or above).
In my idea, aphasics and autistics should be helped when coming in a forum like this one, what they bring to the world is just sometimes incredible.
So please, for my daughter and all those having problems with the written or spoken words, do forgive grammatical mistakes and do ask for clarification. Sometimes they do not realize they misscommunicated.
If she gives me the permission, I may post other creations of hers, music amongst others,
Thanks for reading,
Anyone else has extraordinary stories about wonderful unknown creators or survivors???? Young or old??? You can post their strory here.