But think: WHY do we communicate?
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   We're doing it now.
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   It's so we can a _glimpse_ into "Other Minds" and share ours
   with others.
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   There's different degrees of understanding but dang, if we were
   *THAT ISOLATED* for real - then we wouldn't be here
   COMMUNICATING.
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   Perfect? No. But it's something. I worked with disabled kids
   when I was in my early 20s. Volunteered for a local cerebral
   palsy center full time.
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   You don't know isolated until your body doesn't cooperate at all
   and yet your brain is entirely intact. I only know through
   empathy and imagination what it must be like, but I helped a boy
   learn how to use a computer (I installed Tandy Deskmate on all
   their computers.. this is how long ago it was) - and how to type
   over a period of a few months.
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   Pull your arm up to your chest. Both of them. Push your fingers
   down as if you're going into a neverending spasm. Keep it in
   that spasming position and hunch your body forward to type while
   shaking.
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   You can do it, but it's hard.
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   But.. you can unfold your arms. They can't.
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   After showing him how to type, I let him be. Over a period of an
   8 hours day, he typed a two paragraph, perfectly spelled,
   perfect grammar letter to his Mom, thanking her for all she's
   done for him.
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   He never typed before that. He never WROTE before that. He
   communicated by large boards with words already on them that he
   hunched over to point at.
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   But he knew how to spell, grammar, etc. I didn't help.
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   He was 20 years old. _THAT'S_ isolated. And yet, he was happy
   enough.
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   Can you get in the mind of someone else? Yes you can up to a
   point, and they can get into yours. It's communication. That's
   why we do it.