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Where did this vision of helping others come from?

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Well, it all started when I was eight.

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And my mother had remarried and had three boys, all of whom

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I loved dearly.

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But the first one was autistic.

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And I was old enough to be the built-in babysitter,

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so I spent a lot of time with him.

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And he had needs and a very low tolerance level.

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So either he was happy and really happy

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or he was really not.

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He was three years old pretty much until he died.

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He died this last January in his 60s.

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And I had to learn how to meet his needs without him

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being able to communicate them.

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They're just like a three-year-old who just throws a fit,

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but they can't articulate exactly what's bothering them.

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So because he really didn't speak in full sentences

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until we retrained his hearing when he was in his 30s,

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I read a book about what was called Hearing Equals Behavior.

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And it was about the hearing problems

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that autistic people have.

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I realized that he could hear low frequency

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sounds like motorcycles and buses and airplanes

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really well, which is why when he was a baby,

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he used to put his hands over his ears

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when those sounds were around.

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But what I didn't know is he couldn't hear high frequency

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sounds at all.

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And vowels are low frequency and consonants are high frequency.

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So STF, those are all sounds that appear.

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They're up in the buzzing frequency.

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So he couldn't hear consonants.

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So he couldn't speak consonants.

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So we found some people who did ear retraining.

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And after that, he started to hear consonants,

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and he started speaking in full sentences.