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So we give a little color commentary to this.
So kind of the most severe form of autism.
Maybe even having tics, maybe even being physically impaired in some way, shape, or form.
And you have a therapist that comes in and works with that person to try and get some version of communication in a way that the autistic nonverbal person might be able to communicate something.
Their needs, their wants, their desires, just say yes or no, I love you, whatever.
And what's happening is essentially an interpretation of what may or may not be going on in somebody's mind.
It's very controversial, by the way.
And there's a lot of scientists, there's a lot of criticism about this facilitated communication.
Because a lot of people say...
If I told you for your entire life that two and two was three, if I said that to you, right, and that's what you believed, then you would never โ you could never communicate with me that two and two is four because that's not what you learned.
That's not what you understand.
I'm giving you a very simple premise.
And if someone comes in and then they try to interpret my world, even though I understand it's three, I can't replicate what I understand and what I know.
And either can someone outside my own brain.
They cannot pull that information out of me.