Carly Fleischmann Research Paper

Born in Toronto, Canada in 1995 was a girl who was constantly screaming and flailing her limbs around, however she was always completely silent. She would always be screaming and flailing about, but no one understood why. One day at a doctor’s appointment her parents were told that Carly’s intelligence would not surpass one of a 6-year-old child. At the tender age of two Carly Fleischmann, was diagnosed with autism. She was unable to speak from her mouth at all.
Only at 3 years of age Carly had to go through up to four therapists a day for around 60 hours a week. According to Alan B. and Goldberglauren Putrino “for many years, Nicole Walton-Allen, a clinical psychologist, led Carly's therapy program.” The therapists eventually taught Carly

For the first time ever Carly Fleischmann communicated. Everyone was shocked by how she figured out how to communicate when she wasn’t supposed to be smarter than a small child. Those people who doubted her and looked down on her as unintelligent, were wrong.
When Carly heard of how so many people think she is incapable of thinking or writing she said "I think people get a lot of their information from so-called experts but if a horse is sick, you don't ask a fish what's wrong with the horse. You go right to the horse's mouth."
She had painstakingly started to explain why she would always behave the way she did. She said things like ‘‘You don't know what it feels like to be me, when you can't sit still because your legs feel like they are on fire or it feels like a hundred ants are crawling up your arms.’’ And ‘‘It is hard to be autistic because no one understands me. People look at me and assume I am dumb because I can’t speak.’’ She continued to explain her actions to the world to show everyone that there was no reason to look down on