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Not being able to speak is really hard on my mom. For her, it has been the first thing to go..which is ironic because my mom was always an amazing conversationalist. Now that she has to write everything out, she finds it easier not to sometimes.. so i often have to guess what she's thinking and our conversations are often limited.

One of the things that really bothers her is how people treat her because she can't talk. As she puts it, they think she's "simple". The other day she took her car into our local mechanic and when she wrote out on her pad of paper that she can't talk, he said to her. "I bet people think you are stupid, huh..." It meant so much to her for a stranger to get it right away, she says it brought tears to her eyes.

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