Traveler Tales My Journey with Autism eBook Chammi Rajapatirana
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Traveler’s tales not about slogging through jungles or sailing across uncharted seas. I am a traveler ebulliently engaged on a unique journey between worlds between the quirky world of autism that I inhabit and the wearying world of “normal” that I would like to explore.
Traveler Tales My Journey with Autism eBook Chammi Rajapatirana
This book makes me cry. Written in the pure honest voice of a speechless poet, it confronts Chammi's experience as a person without a way to communicate. His peaceful nature, quiet humility, surging anger with an apparently indifferent god...all of it in such a beautiful prose and poetry...his relentless quest to find his place with all of the speakers in our world - and the remarkable demonstration of talent and observational sensitivity - it is overwhelming to my emotions! How would a person like me deal with this challenge - having so much to say, so many conversations to have, so much i wished to learn - and without a voice, without a way to convince others I was a real person? Chammi so powerfully describes his experience as a voiceless poet, silenced by his autism and our unwillingness to believe in his humanity. All proceeds from this remarkable book go directly to fund his foundation in Sri Lanka, where he and his mother work to help other non-speakers to express themselves using alternative communication means. Buy this book, read it, and send Chammi a generous contribution to <www.easesrilanka.org>!Product details
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Traveler Tales My Journey with Autism eBook Chammi Rajapatirana Reviews
If you know someone who has autism or trouble communicating, you will love this book! Chammi tells of his struggles to communicate and the amazing journey of his life as he and his mother find his path to communication. Chammi uses this experience to spread hope to others who struggle in a similar way. Proceeds of the book go directly to his foundation (www.easesrilanka.org) which helps others find their communication paths as well. If you are a parent, teacher, or friend of someone with communication difficulties you have to read this book! Chammi's motto of "presume competence" and the insights that you will gain from reading his story will help you to better understand what your child, student, or friend might be going through. His story will amaze you, offer you hope, and set you on your own journey.
“There are many of you who still deny me my brain. But there are more of us now. More of us who have found our voices.”
These are words Chammi Rajapatirana writes in his enlightening book, “Travelers Tales My Journey with Autism.” Chammi has been a leader in the “presume competence” and inclusion movements for people with autism and other disabilities for more than two decades. Chammi’s essays are truly inspiring. He has a unique style of writing and poetry. In his essay, “On Being Mute,” Chammi says, “Ignorance and the lack of assistive technology held us autistic people hostage in the past. How many people lived alone and abandoned, how many lives lost. Hear me now. Ignorance and prejudice still hold too many of us in that silent abyss.”
Imagine growing up and being dismissed and even called retarded by doctors and teachers because you have no method of communication. That’s what Chammi lived through until he started to communcate through FC at 17. Chammi was one of the first people with autism to use FC or other means of augmentative and alternative communication. Whatever AAC method or tool that non-verbal children and adults on the autism spectrum use, a central theme is that it empowers them to finally have a voice. I believe this book would be great for parents to read to children who are in the process of gaining their method of communication.
Chammi, who was in the movie “Wretches and Jabberers,” describes in his book his frustration of not being able to speak and how he overcame it by learning FC, and ultimately typing independently despite severe apraxia (a neurological and movement disorder that affects the ability to speak and execute motor skills). He has been a pioneer and trailblazer, but more so just a “Guy,” a nickname he has given himself, a guy who despite anxiety, likes being social and dreams of opening a coffee house for people with autism and other disabilities to meet and socialize.
It is hard to capture in words the enormity of value in this book by poet, advocate, and author Chandima (Chammi) Rajapatirana. In Traveler's Tales, Rajapatirana shares many of his writings through the years since his family's relentless search for a means of communication for him succeeded in helping him to emerge from silence by typing to communicate.
Fortunately for him and for readers who meet him or who visit and revisit his writings, Rajapatirana was not lost forever in what he calls "the silent abyss"--a place and time in his life without effective communication. His indomitable will and the opportunity to communicate gave him an exit from "a black hole beyond the reach of even my mother."
In searingly poignant words Rajapatirana describes his struggle to "join" and "not hide" in the world. He tells the tales of his life journey with compelling imagery, as when he describes the "logjam" of words in his mind waiting to be expressed. That expression is now possible via his typing fingers, when he is able to slow and control not only his anxiety but also his impulsive, "restless movements".
This introspective nonspeaking man with poetry in his heart writes of his sensory challenges, of his desire to speak, and of his struggle to establish who he is in the world "Who am I, and who gets to decide who I am?...I will not take on the identity given me by others; instead I will create my own...In the end I became the one who bested the identity foisted on me by others."
His advice is heartfelt and wise "People as handicapped as I am need someone to find the door. Our families and our teachers have to keep searching till they find the right door. Please don't just stop believing in our ability and the existence of that portal. If you will but dream with us and take risks for and with us, together we will walk through that magical door. Without my Mom's feeling that I was intelligent, and her stubborn refusal to give up I would never have gone through that door." Reading this book will encourage you to keep searching for that door with people whom you know now or whom you may meet someday.
This book makes me cry. Written in the pure honest voice of a speechless poet, it confronts Chammi's experience as a person without a way to communicate. His peaceful nature, quiet humility, surging anger with an apparently indifferent god...all of it in such a beautiful prose and poetry...his relentless quest to find his place with all of the speakers in our world - and the remarkable demonstration of talent and observational sensitivity - it is overwhelming to my emotions! How would a person like me deal with this challenge - having so much to say, so many conversations to have, so much i wished to learn - and without a voice, without a way to convince others I was a real person? Chammi so powerfully describes his experience as a voiceless poet, silenced by his autism and our unwillingness to believe in his humanity. All proceeds from this remarkable book go directly to fund his foundation in Sri Lanka, where he and his mother work to help other non-speakers to express themselves using alternative communication means. Buy this book, read it, and send Chammi a generous contribution to <www.easesrilanka.org>!
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