Jody, there's no way to tell you the connection you build with an isolated person when you write so perfectly about their experience.
Only by having walked miles in those isolated shoes could you even know, much less write with such sensitivity, the emotions relating to simply being out of the loop.
If the outside world can go on without us, if newspapers are delivered and children attend school and jobs continue, if traffic swells, if the tv drones on, if people have successful careers, if all those things go on without us, we do feel insignificant. There's no way around us. If we met our steepest challenge of the day -- and yet it was a solitary action -- no one knows. And if our challenge was simply to get THROUGH the day, it may even seem to us that high-functioning people are some sort of alien tribe.
Keep up the great work. It's needed and wanted, and is quickly finding its audience.
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Jody, there's no way to tell you the connection you build with an isolated person when you write so perfectly about their experience.
Only by having walked miles in those isolated shoes could you even know, much less write with such sensitivity, the emotions relating to simply being out of the loop.
If the outside world can go on without us, if newspapers are delivered and children attend school and jobs continue, if traffic swells, if the tv drones on, if people have successful careers, if all those things go on without us, we do feel insignificant. There's no way around us. If we met our steepest challenge of the day -- and yet it was a solitary action -- no one knows. And if our challenge was simply to get THROUGH the day, it may even seem to us that high-functioning people are some sort of alien tribe.
Keep up the great work. It's needed and wanted, and is quickly finding its audience.
May 28, 2009 - 8:21amThis Comment
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