Betsy Hicks Russ

And the reason I'm saying all of this is because Joe's biggest message is he wants people to know that it takes time and to not put a timeline on it.

So after about a year of going every single week.

One day we were in a session and it was a picture of the desert at night.

And there was white, like a white powder on the ground.

And she said, wow, it's the desert.

So do you think it's snow?

Like, you know, or is it sand?

What do you think?

And he spelled it salt.

And he knew that that was a salt plain.

And I think it's somewhere in Utah.

Yeah.

And that's when I just collapsed and just couldn't believe it that he was aware of that.

What's progressed from that in the last two years of him being now an open speller is this understanding that is so hard for people to shift from.

of being told that they're not in there, that they don't understand, to understanding now that he's way more intelligent and grasps things much faster than I ever could.

And so it's a strange journey to take.

i and t and s it's n and keep going keep going keep going e and all the way where are you going v and and keep going e and it's never t o two okay keep going buddy

L and A and what's next?

T. It's never too... L, A, T and E. It's never too late.

I know, I know.