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Julianna Margulies. Autism is a world so difficult to explain to someone who is not autistic, someone who can easily turn off the peculiar movements and actions that take over our bodies. My name is Sue Rubin. I'm 26 years old. I have written these thoughts about my life because I don't really talk. This is not my voice, but these are my words. I knowingly contribute to my looking retarded by carrying around a plastic spoon. But spoons or my comfort. I cannot explain how or why I need them. I just do. I certainly understand why I was assumed to be retarded. All of my very awkward movements and all my nonsense sounds made me appear retarded. Perhaps I waas voices floated over me. I heard sounds, but not words. It wasn't until I had a communication system that I was able to make sense out of the sounds. When I was 13 Jackie, my educational psychologist, called my mother and said that she had seen someone with autism who was like me start to communicate using a keyboard in support. It's called Facilitated Communication. She wanted to try this with me