I am a non-speaking Autistic. This is how I found my voice. | Throwback Thursday

ABA is a conversion therapy for autistic people. Forcing neuronormativity and is feeply damaging.

I am very touched and love him, I also want to be able to communicate more to express my thoughts, but I am different from everyone else so I cannot speak up, so society needs to be tolerant towards and encourage what autistic children are doing.

You ROCK Ben!!! People like you are MY rock!! Stories like yours are MY lessons, YOU are my teachers! Thank YOU! I'm working hard on helping humans like you because of YOUR inspiration ❤ thank you BEN!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience, Ben! ❤

I see and hear you young man x

@WashingtonPost why haven't you done your due diligence and properly investigated the pseudoscience behind this story? Can Ben testify in a court of law or is he just mindlessly poking the board without understanding that letters have sounds associated with them and they form words when used correctly?

Benjamin sounds very well spoken and Inteligent. I am autistic as well. I feel that it is true that being verbal does not equal intelligence. If I remember correctly Einstein didn’t speak until he was 4 or 5.

He can be healed now. AUTISM IS A BUNCH OF DEMONS. @Jesus king of Kings Church with Apostle Francisco Gómez children get prayers everyday.

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What a well spoken young man! I’m wondering can he type? Perhaps with a larger keyboard?

look onto facilitated communication

Wonderful to hear your thoughts.
I have a non-speaking 5yr old Grandauughter. She is starting to speak 4 words together in different situations. At times out of order but We understand her. You gave me so much hope and I admire you for helping us understand your thoughts and intelligence.

How can he read and write but not talk? Genuine question.

Is the whole video's text written by him? He has a spectacular mind.

Just talk. It's not that hard.

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Me seeing this video on my recommendations and going 'bet you any money that's S2C'. And behold. When a facilitator allows the pair of them to do a blinded test, like what found out facilitated communication, then I'll start considering this as any use at all. Google the actual scientific evidence, people.

It gives me so much hope for my daughter. Hope she will find her voice too. 😊

My son's name is Ben. 3.5 year old with Autism. Non verbal. Put him on broccoli gummies and hes been trying to talk words. I hope I will hear him talk some day. I fear the thought of being trapped in the body.

Was crying when watching this, my son is non-verbal too. He is turning 5 this year. God bless you Ben.

from what i understood with consciousness. The Brain is only an antenna for the consciousness that incarnate the body to communicate with the physical world and the body. If the brain is affected, damaged, or has an anomaly, the antenna will badly receive the signal.

When an authistic people die, his consciousness become Greater again. We remains who we are deeply in the heart, but the consciousness is no longer affected. Same for healthy people. Our consciousness is not the same in Heaven. yes we remains who we are, but with a higher consciousness because we understand things we can't with a human brain.

I have 2 grandchildren that are non verbal 2 & 3 years old boy and girl. They know how to get their point across. My granddaughter will grab my hand and put it around her waist or put it on her belly to show me she wants me to pick her up or just hug her. My grandson is starting to do the same things. I absolutely adore them more than life itself and I will do whatever I can to help them.

Can he write? Or type sentences on a computer? Just wondering the story that is being told by another voice is that a text that he typed himself? Because the whole story with a letterboard might be days or weeks to have this story... just curious 😊

As a father of identical twin boys that are nonverbal autistic. I wonder what causes it? I asked the doctor, where are all the old autistic people? If it has always been around like he claims then show me an autistic person in their 70s I have yet to find one. So my question remains, what is causing it?

I talked once but i got abused for everything i said. I live in supported living. Everything said is policed. Every movement is policed also. Even get yelled at for pointing my finger at the wall gesticulating im thinking of killing myself. Im a 5st anorexic my days are numbered i said my hip hurt to another service user i was severaly reprimanded. Id given her my car as travel is unbearable due to my lack of padding. I got grounded because i said i dreaded an appointment another time because i felt said so the answer is not to talk anymore. Sometimes talking gets you nowhere. I am also avoiding the kitchen more as id like to lose some weight

i wonder how he's doing now. this video is 5 years old but it's still powerful and beautiful. he says he can't speak but thinks he's found his voice and it's a powerful one! he's also suprisingly articulate and obviously extemenly intelligent. not that i didn't expect him to be, but having the patience to spell out exactly what he wanted say to his translator despite everything he's experiencing is far beyond me.
i'd use texting lingo and abbreviate the heck out of everything.

I am a grandmother to a two-year-old autistic boy who is nonverbal. I wish I knew more on how to help him. I can tell he’s a very bright boy. He knows what he wants. He’s finding his way of communicating by grabbing our hands and leading him to and what he wants, he makes some sound but they’re not words I can see his intelligence because he knows simple basic things like helping get himself dressed picking up his shoes going over to a door when he wants to go outside bringing my hand and putting it on the door if he wants to go for a ride in the car, he will lead me over to the car, put my hand on the door knobso I will open it. He’s a miracle to be alive. He’s a blessing. It’s a gift from God. I just wish I knew better how to help him communicate.

Thank you Ben for teaching us and for the srength you have! Your battle can be won! God bless you so

Why wouldn’t he just type it on an iPad or something where she would not have to puzzle out every letter and word painstakingly? Keyboards exist!

Or he could learn to fingerspell, which is easy and convenient.

We need to look at these things objectively. Please look at why this is not accepted. This is very much a gimmick, very very unfortunately

I will never forget the day my daughter woke up and was a totally different person. Couldnt speak, disliked her favorite foods and had tantrums. To think that she might remembers is so hard to hear I thought she was way to young for that. I will also never forget the phrase " im in constant battle with my body ". She is a very happy child, but this shattered me. Thank you for sharing your story Ben.

I am a mother of a severly autistic 28 yr. old and this video is questionable for many reasons. First of all, he would not remember being verbal at age two, he would be using a device, not pointing at letters and he would not be able think in such a complex way and know such intricate facts.

bogus pseudoscience im sorry to say...shame on the washington post!

“I am in a constant battle with my body”-Heartbreaking. 😢

Love this video... would love a platform for non-verbal and non- speaking voices... i am not either, but i loved hearing it and being enlightened by what they want and need to have the life they want

I wish him the very best. He looks like such a cool kind person!

God bless this intelligent young man who is finally able to share his thoughts, how liberated he must feel 👏! I pray that he is doing even better today and I would love to see an update to this young man's story 🙏!

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I think something is wrong with either diagnostic or therapy when a well spoken boy turns mute and is forced to use alternative ways of communication. Autism did not just pop out like a toy from the box. Something does not add up.

I don’t know if this would help anyone. It helped me and I would like to share. We have autism on both sides of the family. When my son was born I noticed that he had some issues with being overly stimulated. Whenever he would change into this way of being, I would put him down for a nap or early bedtime, turning off any sounds and lights. I carried on this way with him into his toddlerhood and early childhood. Thank you to this mom that put two and two together when her son pointed to octopus word instead of the picture. I wish you the best in your life’s journey.

Now we have chip implants non verbal should be able to speak again ❤

Wow this can just like happen out of the blue?

Hi Ben! I am autistic as well. Still where I have grown its a taboo and people are uneducated and unaware of special brains that has been gifted to us by our Creator. Thanks for being so brave to decide being visible to raise awareness for our cause! I would not have that courage. Lions like you always motivate me more, I know that we will never walk alone. Wherever you are my neurodiverse folks: you always have someone that feels like you and able to understand you. Greetings!