HI :3
So I just watched an episode of “YouTubers’ React to Carly Fleischman – Speechless YouTube Channel” and I was astounded, amazed and mind blown by what I witnessed.
Carly has autism and for the first 11 years of her life, she wasn’t able to communicate with anyone because she isn’t able to speak a word due to her oral motor apraxia. However when she turned 11, she was able to type on a laptop: ‘HURT’ and ‘HELP’. This was apparently the revelation to her parents that there was, and still is actually, a lot going on inside her that she just isn’t able to share easily with others because she cannot talk. It turns out, she is actually a very intelligent, witty and funny human being.
With the use of her typing skills and laptop, she started her own blog, Twitter and now, she even has her own YouTube channel which I mentioned above. In that channel, she has currently 3 videos and one of them features an interview with Channing Tatum. And, oh my goodness you guys, she made me laugh for the entire video. Carly was being spontaneous, engaging, hilarious and witty; all while also being scared because she was interviewing her celebrity crush. She also mentioned her dream of becoming a talk show host and in all honesty, she should be. She should keep following this dream and achieve it because she can. She can do it and she is doing it and that’s why she is such an inspiration to me.
Another video on her channel is a song called ‘Glamour Girl‘. She collaborated with Kaitlin Kozell, a girl who was bullied before and now faces challenges due to low self esteem, and Lil Jaxe, a boy with speech impediment yet is a very fluid rapper and has earned worldwide attention for it. All three of them brought out this song with a very strong message. This song brings everyone the message of “it doesn’t matter what your challenges are as long as you’re ready to try to overcome them”. This song is… inspiring. This song brought me to tears by how sincere, sweet and fascinating it is. This song resonated within my heart and soul and made the dams in my eyes break. This song spoke to the depths of my heart and mind and said: ‘Don’t ever give up because there will always be a brighter future which you can make yours. Even though it’s a struggle with other people around you discouraging you or there are outside forces pushing you back, it’s okay because you can still make it.’
Honestly, all three of them are just such huge inspirations to me. I wrote this to help spread awareness of all of these brilliant messages and one more: to never judge anyone and truly get to know and understand them first. You never know what path they’ve walked, what their obstacle course in life is and what they’ve done to get where they are now. People shouldn’t be categorised immediately based on their physical appearance or how they live. For example, Carly was labelled as “mentally retarded” because she couldn’t speak but in reality, she is a very intellectual person who is able to make deep insights and is just unable to say what she wants to say. However, she didn’t let this deter her from moving forward to where she wants to go… and look at where she is now.
These three young people are representatives of these messages and I know that there must be so many more people out there who are in similar standings. And I want to try my best to be a representative of these messages by living by them. I sincerely hope that these messages spread to as many people as possible because we need more people like this. That’s why I humbly request you through this post, to try your best to also keep these messages in your heart and mind and live by them to let your actions speak to others and influence them.
I’m including links to their websites/ social media so that you can also show them support and, as Carly puts it, go “right to the horse’s mouth” in order to hear what they have to say. I don’t think- no, I know- I cannot express what they went through in my own words nor do I have the right to. However, I still want to write this post to share my thoughts and feelings about this serious matter because of how inspired I am.
Links:
Carly Fleischmann:
Kaitlin Kozell:
Lil Jaxe:
I’m also going to include some links to websites of autism and oral motor apraxia if you want to know more about them:
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this post. I hope that you are inspired by what these three have accomplished and what they are still doing and I hope you push forward in the journey of your life.
~little Purple.Mage
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