I really enjoyed Out Of My Mind so far. I like this book because it explains the struggles kids with disorders go through unlike us “normal” people. We don’t have to worry about us not being able to speak or others thinking we don’t think of anything. Something that really makes me enjoy this book is how much detail it goes into with Melody’s thoughts and struggles. My big prediction for this book is that I feel like more people will wanna be friends with Melody but Carrie will start to get jealous. But if she takes time to know Melody she will soon start to like her.

This impacted the way I see melody because it has to be hard not being able to talk to people straight up because she has to point to her board and she does not have the words she wants she has to spell them out and I would find that very frustrating since Mrs.V makes her talking board.

I found it easy because I had all the words I needed to talk to my partner instead of having to spell any out. I felt weird having to talk with the board because I am used to speaking so the thought of me having to point to the words I wanted to say was really weird instead of me just saying it instead of having to think about it.

I chose simple words as Hi,my.if.yes,no,please,name,is,who,water,bathroom,I,homework,help,and okay. I choose those words because those are basic need words I could have a conversation with.  No I would not change any of my words because I had all the words I needed.

We made a communication board where you get to choose a couple of words and those are the words you have to use. If you do not have the word to use you have to spell it out letter per letter on this strip that has all the letters alphabetical order. The purpose was to see how it felt to have a communication board in order to talk to someone.

There was one point in life where I had started playing in a boys and girls baseball team and I was the only girl, but I had joined the team because I had one of my friends on the team and his mom and my mom are really good friends so we would always do stuff together. Since I was the only girl, this one boy would always tell me to just leave because I was a girl so he was always gonna be better than me. I had gone home feeling down but my friend told me to ignore him because I was better than him. We would go to baseball practice go out to dinner and practice if we had time. When we had our games the coach had me as batter #1 all the time because he thought I was the best batter on the team and that made me happy because I got to prove the other guy wrong and show him what I was worth. Hard work does pay off and i’m just happy my friend believed in me because that pushed me to do better.

When I was younger a bunch of people would under estimate me because my dad had passed away so a bunch of people though I could not relate to a lot of them. This was more when I was in Second grade this one kid thought I was a bad influence and would not talk to me since my dad had passed away so he thought I was different to where he said he could not talk to me due to me not having a dad so I wouldn’t be able to relate to anything he goes through. For me at the time that had an impact on me especially since some kids would not wanna be friends with me all because I did not have my dad in my life anymore, but I always had my grandpa and I see him as my father. Two years had passed by and the kids who thought I could never relate to them ended up wanting to talk to me because I was able to help them if they were going through things at home mentally or physically. In the end they ended up wanting to be friends with me after they got to know me I think people should just give others a chance first instead of judging them right away over one thing. 

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