Thankful for facilitator

I am writing about the news of facilitated communication and how it helps people like me. Without F.C. I could not communicate. I started using it seven years ago. Now I can speak for myself and can have the life I have always wanted.

Some people are saying that F.C. is fake. But if you have the F.C. facilitator properly trained F.C. is good. You must trust your facilitator to not translate what they are thinking, but ask you to be very clear with your thoughts. That is the way for people to know it is coming from you.

I have come a very long way these past seven years, to be the person I always knew I was, because of F.C. I am 46 years old and for 39 years I had no way of letting people know how I think or what I needed to have a full and rewarding life. Now I am able to achieve all the goals I was thinking about for all that time I was in the dark ages.

I am autistic and can’t speak. So when I learned to type using F.C. my world opened up. I have a facilitator who gives me support by putting her hand on my arm while I type.

We need to have more trained facilitators so that our voices can be heard, and we can be like everyone else and have a truly full life.

Todd Washburne

Montpelier and Calais