My name is Navneet Kulkarni I am 17yrs old non-speaking boy on Autism spectrum, my mother’s name is Neha Kulkarni and my father’s name is Raghavendra Kulkarni, I’m from Solapur , Maharashtra State from India,I was diagnosed with Autism when I was 2½ years old, I was very hyper, sleeping issues ,head banging biting, That time there was not much awareness of autism at my place,so my parents took me to my grandparents place at Bangalore for treatment, there I was diagnosed with Autism and we took therapies at Bangalore,after few months we came back to solapur with home programs given by therapist at Bangalore and my mother started taking all therapies at home because there was no Therapy Center at my place,my mother homeschooled me, I was having more motor challenges but my mother trained me and teached everything of life skills,my mother took so much efforts for my speech development but I was unable to speak so she tried AAC method for communication, I communicate with my parents through typing and some time through gestures,I’m very happy the way I am and even my parents have accepted me the way I am,I feel very lucky to have such parents who are always supportive for me.
Since from my childhood days I was good in communication, but the The sad part of my communication was it was hardly understood what I used to express, because my communication initially was only through gestures, my parents tried very hard to know my emotions ,being my communication partners they did their best to get my speech ,I was doing more humming to get the sounds to connect with letters ,I was talking Insight very much, to decode it to the speech articulation is very much important but I am unable to articulate my sounds of letter too much complex is speaking, but when I was around 14yrs I got new way for communication that was typing on keyboard and then slowly it switched to letter board, I am more happy now ,It was My mother who found this new way of typing for communication ,really my life changed from the day I started typing, Today not only I can use typing for communication but I can explore my talent of writing fictional story , poems,quotes. My mother is my speech and language therapist , she is the one who really gave me my voice for communication.
Drastic change happened in my life when I started using letterboard/typing for communication. Life turned from flight mode to swing mode , Non-Speaker to more communicative now through typing, darkness in light was my life before using typing for communication, all thoughts were just getting summarized only in mind, so dead like feeling inside, my doors of mind were unopened, being more verbal with no communication without expressing my thoughts and feelings always guilted me. But when I started using typing for communication, my life changed, people started seeing my abilities.. I want to address myself as Autistic ,the reason for this choice is I am different but not less ,the identity of me being Autistic is not something which I am ashamed off ,it is my fragile as well as my superpower , Being Autistic made my journey more mindful .Today I feel different,think different, imagine things different only because I am more connected to myself, my world, my mind,ie subconscious mind.
I’m very Passionate about writing. I wrote many poems ,moral stories and many life quotes,My first book”Autism God’s Beautiful Creation ” has published last year I want to build my career as an Author, and my goal is to serve people with my spiritual Knowledge and help Orphanage kids with donations from my earnings. “Youth Are The Pillar Of The Country ” through my write ups and through my story I want Youth to come forward to join hands in these Good deeds.
Being special means not normal but very unique. I think and feel the things
differently so it doesn’t mean I’m disabled. I’m a boy with different abilities, so through my writeups I want to spread Awareness of Autism.My way of writing Visioning it is more like talking and sharing my thoughts and it’s very particular about what and how my mind process, sometime you may need to think twice to make them understand what I am telling, but this is my way of framing sentences and expressions,I am a daydreamer and i always talk with my mind,I am more Insight with my own imagination through Animating things in my mind, with Blending of my senses I think and express my thoughts, Yes !! This is my way of seeing things. Neurodivergent means different but not less” Being Different Is Not A Curse, Treating Different Is Curse” so I want to spread awareness about how these different abilities are going to change the world.I want to spread inclusion of Neurodiversity in the society..
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