It is hard enough being a teenage girl even if you have all the social skills and social savvy needed to make you part of the ‘in crowd’. Luckily for most girls they have a bestie that they can chat with and work out the complicated issues of the day.
When you are autistic you may not have the friends to chat with or even the ability to talk at all. That makes the world a very frustrating place to inhabit.
Carly Fleischmann is a teenage girl who was diagnosed with severe autism and an oral motor condition that prevented her from speaking.
“Doctors predicted that she would never intellectually develop beyond the abilities of a small child. Although she made some progress after years of intensive behavioural and communication therapy, Carly remained largely unreachable. Then, at the age of ten, she had a breakthrough.
While working with her devoted therapists Howie and Barb, Carly reached over to their laptop and typed in "HELP TEETH HURT," much to everyone's astonishment. This was the beginning of Carly's journey toward self-realization.”
The quote comes from the blurb on Carly’s book Breaking Through Autism.
The video is by Carly and it shows life from her perspective and it also shows how she has found and used an alternative form of communication – social media.
Who would have thought that social media would be the saviour of an autistic teenager?
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