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Chapter 1: What is the new flavor of 5-Hour Energy?
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When it comes to 5-Hour Energies, I'd say by far the most unique flavor they have put out. And I consider myself to be a connoisseur. I already was a 5-Hour Energy connoisseur before, but now I have a ton of it in my office thanks to the fine folks at 5-Hour Energy. So I'm set for a while. Honestly...
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The episode you're about to hear is one that I've been working on for quite a long time, and it's one that I'm very excited about. It comes from a woman named Jennifer, and it took place about two decades ago when she was a young teacher starting out at a new school in Georgia. It's one of those stories that, after I heard it, I couldn't stop thinking about.
And honestly, the reason I started the show in the first place was in hopes of getting stories like this one. I spent a good amount of time getting to know Jennifer this year, talking to her on the phone, on and off about this whole thing. She is a very normal lady who really just had this one extremely abnormal saga take place in her life a very long time ago and then nothing similar ever again.
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Chapter 2: What story is Jack excited to share?
It's been very fascinating being able to revisit these memories alongside of her over the last year. Anonymity was very important to Jennifer. For that reason, we have changed some names and minor details of the story to protect everyone's identity. Let's get this episode started. I think you're all going to enjoy this just as much as I did. This is episode 103.
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My name is Jennifer, and I am a middle school Montessori teacher. I teach Erdkinder, which is teaching students about animal husbandry and gardening. My story takes place when I lived in Savannah, Georgia. I grew up in Virginia. I have a brother and a sister. and my parents were divorced when I was very young. My mom is from Poland, kind of had a strict upbringing.
My dad died when I think I was like 11 years old. He was a merchant marine. There was a shipwreck in 1983. The ship was caught in the storm and the ship sank. But A happy kid. I had great friends. School was a lot of fun. I went to the local college there and graduated. I waited tables. Just a nice, happy, non-stressful upbringing, really.
I was raised Catholic, but I wasn't sure if I believed it or not. I wasn't necessarily religious. I kind of had an open mind to everything. And I still do. I don't think I know an answer one way or another, but I just always just try to have an open mind about life and religion and all of that. In In 2007, I was in graduate school for a master's degree in education. In March, I got married.
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Chapter 3: Who is Jennifer and what is her background?
And I walked around the classroom and then she introduced me to Jamie. When I looked at Jamie, I saw her, she was sitting with the other kids in the class. Eighth grade girl, I think she's like 13 or 14 years old, dark hair, brown eyes, super cute, kind of hunched over. She had her index fingers in her ears, kind of staring at the ground.
And the lead teacher introduced me to her, and she kind of looked up at me. She got up. super sweet she gave me a hug and i hugged her back and the lead teacher explained more of the responsibilities she mentioned that jamie was on the spectrum and she also had a neurological condition called apraxia which affected her
I guess her tongue, she wasn't able to form words, so she was essentially nonverbal. She could make sounds, but she couldn't form words. She also had apraxia that affected her fine motor skills and her gross motor skills. So she walked kind of with a clumsy gait, and her fine motor skills were affected, like she couldn't hold a pencil, she couldn't button a button, open up a book.
She was limited in that capacity. The principal and the lead teacher said they thought I was a good fit for her, that they would call me in a few days. And I was hoping I would get the job because I could, you know, as an eighth grade little girl, she probably needed a friend and I needed a friend. I was new to the area, so I was, you know, looking forward to just helping her in every way I could.
They offered me the job and I started a few days after that. The lead teacher kind of told me Jamie's typical schedule of the day. You know, in the morning we would be in the special ed classroom to go over morning announcements. And then Jamie and I would walk to her math class. While Jamie was in math, I sat next to her. opened up her backpack, got out her book.
Well, I took notes and Jamie listened to the lesson. Then if I recall correctly, we went from math directly to English class. And I remember in English class, they were reading The Hobbit. And it was the same sort of deal. I sat next to her, opened up her backpack. Again, because her fine motor skills, she could not open up her backpack by herself. Got out her books and took notes for her.
Sometimes in English class, I would get the lesson and we would go to the school library. So we could kind of spread out and use the computer. That's how we communicated with one another. Jamie always carried a laptop with her. It was a special kind of laptop that she would type, and then if she hit a button, the computer would speak for her. Sometimes we didn't use that feature.
She would just type a message. And I have to say, because of her apraxia, The way she typed was, her hand was weak, so I would have to hold her wrist while she extended her index finger, and then she would hit the keys one at a time. So I was always holding her wrist while she typed. Otherwise, she just could not physically type on the computer.
But we always went to the school library, even after classes, just to either catch up on her homework or do her schoolwork.
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Chapter 4: What challenges did Jamie face in school?
And she would write, yeah, I wish they would shut the fuck up. You know, so stuff like that.
That is funny.
You know, just like that, you know, typical teenage, you know, judging people.
Would it make you laugh? What would you be doing?
Yeah, I would laugh because I thought it was really funny, especially coming from her. She wouldn't really look at people. She would kind of always look down, so I was surprised that she noticed some of the things that she noticed, particularly in what people were wearing. One time she said, um... can I tell you a dirty joke? Like I said, this is part of her personality.
And I said, Jamie, is this like appropriate? And so she typed that on her laptop and it sounded like, can I tell you a dirty joke? But the punchline for that was a white horse fell in a mud pit or something like that. That was her kind of sense of humor. Her memory was extraordinary, and I'm not sure why.
Maybe because when we were, like I mentioned, we were reading The Hobbit, and she must have remembered details about The Hobbit that I was thinking, wow, you remember that? Let me go back on page 27 to check, or something along those lines. I had a sneaking suspicion that her memory was extraordinary. So I remember one time in class,
I picked up a dictionary and I just opened it up and showed it to her, put it in her face, like, look at this dictionary. And I could see that she was kind of like scanning it with her eyes. I said, okay, now you write down what was in the dictionary. And effortlessly, she was writing everything verbatim on that dictionary page.
You know, and that was, that really taught me a lesson that we were reading The Hobbit and she got the character. She knew, she understood the story. She knew what was going on. And sadly, a lot of people just dismissed her as probably being unintelligent. But she was very intuitive, very bright. Yeah, very smart. I think most of the time the other students just saw her as invisible.
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Chapter 5: How did Jamie communicate despite her challenges?
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Chapter 6: What was Jamie's experience with her classmates?
Focused, like trying to look at something, trying to concentrate. And her typing was never clearer Sometimes when she typed, she would forget to put the space bar in there. But when she was typing messages with my dad, the spelling was correct. The spacing was correct. And one of the words, you know, my dad liked the piano player Rachmaninoff. That was spelled correctly.
What eighth grader knows Rachmaninoff?
And you have printouts of some of these, right?
I have about... Eight or nine pages, yeah. I have her, her name is on the corner. It was October 31st. The Hobbit study question, so we're working on that. And then she proceeds to type, your dad really wants to talk. I see him right here. He looks tall and fearless, really old. Your dad is telling me to tell you he's not ready to leave today. He loves you, young daughter. You're welcome.
I think in my mind I said, oh, my God, thank you, Jamie. Yes, please play Rachmaninoff. Will you play it for me? Jamie is a sweet angel. She found us because she knew we would need each other. And then she wrote, yes, he's very happy. I think in my mind, I wanted to, I asked him, are you happy? Are you okay? Your husband is nice. You two make a good couple.
And then I must have said, because Jamie looked tired, you know, as you, this kind of, this really wore her out. And I, I must've thought that in my mind, like Jamie, she looks exhausted and she wrote tired. Yes. She, and then she does, um, good work, you are a good teacher and you're very kind. And then he said, tired, goodbye, reflect on everything I tell you, love you.
Another one she wrote or he wrote, he wants you to know that he really yearns to hear you play the piano. I see you playing the piano to play Rachmaninoff very well. You used to play like your grandmother. My mom used to play your grandmother.
What was it like speaking to your dad?
It was... You know, like I said, my dad died when I was really young, and my parents were divorced when I was three, so I really didn't know him. But it changed my life because I didn't realize how much I missed him. until this happened. And I really didn't think that he really cared about us. He, he moved on, you know, uh, when he divorced my mom, he had a new wife and a new child.
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