Prepare yourself for a treat.

[pnwmom]

A mind altering treat.

This video was made by an autistic woman. The first three minutes follows her through "typical" autistic activities. What happens next is amazing.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/the-language-of-autism/?em&ex=1205380800&en=a017f11ab0f43d50&ei=5087%0A

More information about Ms. Briggs is in this Wired Magazine article:

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-03/ff_autism

The writer of the article met her and spoke with her, via a computer and voice synthesizer.

"Baggs lives in a public housing project for the elderly and handicapped near downtown Burlington, Vermont. She has short black hair, a pointy nose, and round glasses. She usually wears a T-shirt and baggy pants, and she spends a scary amount of time — day and night — on the Internet: blogging, hanging out in Second Life, and corresponding with her autie and aspie friends. (For the uninitiated, that's autistic and Asperger's.)

"On a blustery afternoon, Baggs reclines on a red futon in the apartment of her neighbor (and best friend). She has a gray travel pillow wrapped around her neck, a keyboard resting on her lap, and a DynaVox VMax computer propped against her legs.

"Like many people with autism, Baggs doesn't like to look you in the eye and needs help with tasks like preparing a meal and taking a shower. In conversation she'll occasionally grunt or sigh, but she stopped speaking altogether in her early twenties. Instead, she types 120 words a minute, which the DynaVox then translates into a synthesized female voice that sounds like a deadpan British schoolteacher."

SNIP