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Yeah.

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I don't think I've
ever used a microphone.

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Hi.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Well, thank you guys
all for coming here,

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this is really exciting.

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And I just really want to thank
Tyler and the Poetry Center

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because they have just been
so supportive of non-speakers,

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and they even have a section
in the library that is devoted

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to non-speaking autistic poets.

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So if you get the
chance, I would highly

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recommend checking them out.

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Not literally checking them
out, but checking them.

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[LAUGHTER]

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But this is really
special to have

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an event that is
celebrating these people,

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because they're not
celebrated enough.

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And I'm besides being Joshua's
mom, who is over there--

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and I wanted to
give a little aside.

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Josh wanted me to tell everyone
that he is really excited.

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He's not nervous, he's excited.

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And due to not being able
to speak for so many years,

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he has a lot-- and also some
of the therapies that he

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did that we thought were helping
at the time, actually were not,

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and so he has PTSD.

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And just his autism,
in general, make it

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so that when he has big
emotions, they come out.

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It really sends him
into fight or flight.

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So he wanted me to
share that and he

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wanted me to tell you
that he's really fine, not

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to worry about him.

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So I'm also, as Tyler said,
the executive director

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of Teva Community.

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And all the slides
that were up here

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before were from a workshop
that we were doing.

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It was our first workshop.

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What we're doing
is we're creating

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residential community for
non-speaking autistic adults

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in Prescott, Arizona, as well
as an educational recreation

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center so we can have
programs like this

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where they can
work on songwriting

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and other creative
forms of expression.

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So just thank you for
being here, really excited.

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And I'll turn it
back over to Tyler.

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Yeah.

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[LAUGHS]

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[CLAPPING]

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