1: If you have to choose one famous person to meet, who would it be? (Dead or alive.) Emiliy Dickinson, my first poetry love.
2: Do you think that Special ED can do better for people with disability with what able body are learning in school? While I am not directly involved with Special Ed and so I don't feel qualified to speak on this subject, I think we can always do better for people with disabilities if we listen, learn, and advocate. 
3: If you have to choose to walk in another person shoes for a day, who would it be? One of my children. I would love to know them even more than I already do.
4: What is one thing that a person with a disability taught you? Determination and perseverance. ​

1: If you have to choose one famous person to meet, who would it be? (Dead or alive.)
Michelle Obama- she has such grace and poise in the face of such adversity and hardship, I love it. I love her optimism, her brillance and her joy and kindness!  

2: Do you think that Special ED can do better for people with disability with what able body are learning in school?
Yes, we can absolutely do better. We have the technology to move the classroom online meaning we can go to where the student is, why can't we create opportunities like that for less able bodied individuals?  

3: If you have to choose to walk in another person shoes for a day, who would it be?
My grandmother, she is a tough loving woman who still has more energy than I do. I would love to see the world as she does, from decades more of life lessons!  

4: What is one thing that a person with a disability taught you?
When I was young, I had a friend with down syndrome. He was picked on everyday, and yet everyday, Alex met the world with a smile.  And that was beautiful to me, to see past the fear and hate to the simple beauty all around us. 

​1: If you have to choose one famous person to meet, who would it be? (Dead or alive.) Ramina Maharshi 
2: Do you think that Special ED can do better for people with disability with what able body are learning in school? Yes of course! Just with helping sleep, using hyperbaric oxygen therapy alone would be massive IMO.
3: If you have to choose to walk in another person shoes for a day, who would it be? Elon Musk. 
4: What is one thing that a person with a disability taught you? To live in the moment, and ENJOY it!

​1: If you have to choose one famous person to meet, who would it be? (Dead or alive.)

Albert Einstein - I think it would be amazing to sit down with him and hear him talk about his struggles and triumphs. To hear and learn how his brain worked and how he was able to overcome the stereotypes that were put on him. 

2: Do you think that Special ED can do better for people with disability with what able body are learning in school?

I was very lucky to be in a public school that was one of the first to do inclusion learning. I feel that it really made a lot of us that didn’t have disabilities see that people that do have disabilities are no different. They may learn differently or act differently, but we all do in a way, right?


3: If you have to choose to walk in another person shoes for a day, who would it be?

I would choose to walk in one of my kids shoes. I would love to see how it feels going through some of the same struggles pre-teens and teens all go through, but in today’s world. How they have all of the technology on top of it all.

4: What is one thing that a person with a disability taught you?
I had a friend in elementary school who was blind. She showed me how she could do all the things we did in school just as well as anyone else. She participated in gym, music, and all classes. She taught me some basic reading in Braille. It was really eye opening as a kid to see that just because she had to do some things a little different, we were still learning the same things. 

​1: If you have to choose one famous person to meet, who would it be? (Dead or alive.) Ramina Maharshi.

2: Do you think that Special ED can do better for people with disability with what able body are learning in school? For sure! They need more money invested to help them, and for new and organic ways.

3: If you have to choose to walk in another person shoes for a day, who would it be? Id say my wife, so I can understand her better as a woman and person.

4: What is one thing that a person with a disability taught you? That theres joy in the most simple things.

1. If you have to choose one famous person to meet, who would it be? (Dead or alive.)   Andrew Carnegie - he was one of the founders of the nation business wise.  Built the first bridge and had to get people to walk across.  They were scared so he hired an elephant to walk across the bridge.  Elephants are known not to walk across unsafe platforms.
2. Do you think that Special ED can do better for people with disability with what able body are learning in school? I don’t have a lot of experience in this field.  
3. If you have to choose to walk in another person shoes for a day, who would it be? My husband, Troy.  He works so hard and deals with so many things.  He has to deal with a lot of stuff and is so amazing.
4. What is one thing that a person with a disability taught you?  Little girl named Katie - absolutely so loving.  Her love is beyond measures.  

​1: Describe your “average” day. What are your rituals/routines?
 
2 cups of coffee before I get out of bed
Share breakfast with my wife
Prayer and meditation, mindfulness
Write blogs/book
Play guitar
Feed the animals; walk the farm.
Photography:  Photoshop images for web; cyanotype; designed Holiday cards;
Share reading with my wife: Dickens
Nap
Share tv with wife
Go to bed together
 
If it’s not fun I don’t’ do it.  If its’ not fun, I find a way to make it fun.  Decisions have no wrong answers, only good ones. I don’t have to do something, like carry out the garbage, now I GET to do something.
 
What is your favorite book? (Why is it your favorite?)
Like asking which of my kids is my favorite.
Today, it’s Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
Yesterday it was Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol
Day before, James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain
Dhammapada of The Buddha
Sermon on the Mount, Emmet Fox
 
All-time favs
Hamlet
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Bible
 
3: If you had to move and could only take 3 things with you, what would they be?
            My wife
            My puppy
            My guitar
            Complete Shakespeare/The Bible
           
 
4: If your closest friend wrote a book about your life, what would the title be?
Boot camp for the Soul
A madman, a poet, and a freak   

Lin 

1:Describe your “average” day. What are your rituals/routines?  I usually wake up between 6-7am (I usually go to bed before 9pm); although it can be difficult because Autism makes my autonomic nervous system overactive which causes me wake up in the middle of the night and sometimes have gotten poor sleep; this also can make it difficult to concentrate, remember things during the day and can make one prone to daydreaming).  I shower, take St John's Wort and eat breakfast.  With bipolar I have to battle anxious & depressive thoughts throughout most of the day [and have found turning my thoughts into song in my head, thinking backwards, turning the thoughts into anagrams or transliterating them into morse code, ASL, Braille].  I work as a professional driver & delivery specialist for DHL Express doing international delivery.  I take walks each day, watch movies, and play with my pet robot Vector.  I do volunteer work of some sort each week, I like to ride my bike/go hiking, talk to my friends. I come home (I am single still live at home with my parents, and plan to indefinitely, my biggest regret in life is living other places with other people (Iworking a full time job and battling with mental illness and years of past trauma each day is enough without adding additional stress of living somewhere else or being in a relationship with someone) & being a victim of abusive romantic (and other) relationships with Christians.   I then eat dinner, watch the news, and then take Zoloft before going to bed.  
2: What is your favorite book? (Why is it your favorite?)  The Tanakh (Old Testament) because it is the first book that I read on my own and the Scripture has been important to my Protestant family for centuries.  As I converted to Judaism and came to see how I could relate intimately to the experiences of the Jews and feeling like one who has been marginalized, oppressed most of my life.  
3: If you had to move and could only take 3 things with you, what would they be? I would take my family (or handgun if I'm not allowed to take people), my car, and cell phone.  
4: If your closest friend wrote a book about your life, what would the title be?  James, a Memoir
My questions: 5. Talk about being an INFJ: I have always been introverted and prefer quiet surroundings and alone time, I have muscle memory like intuition, am deeply empathetic/compassionate, and tend to judge within my thoughts (but as an introvert I usually do not express those judgments aloud, I prefer to keep my personal opinions to myself, otherwise they would not be personal or private in my view).  I gravitated away from extroverted careers like retail or open office work and instead to hands on warehouse work, then working as a commercial driver which is mostly solitary, and now I am seeking a virtual career from home in disability policy and digital activism or a work-from home logistics position.  Being an INFJ has its happy moments and perks which often go unnoticed or unappreciated but also has downfalls such as being a target of suspicion for our quietness and solitude or for being "different."  
6. What is unique about my experience as a left-handed, blue-eyed, brown & wavy-haired person? I have found that most of the belligerence and discrimination I have faced from others has been by people who are brown-eyed, straight-haired, and right handed.  Likewise, most of my good friends and family have the same eye color and or hair type as me, and being left-handed also doesn't hurt. 

1: Describe your “average” day. What are your rituals/routines?

My average day consist of me working for 10hrs in between that caring for my boys. Working out and taking my online classes for my business.
2: What is your favorite book? (Why is it your favorite?)

My favorite book is Unlearn by Humble the Poet is is just so inspirational and it makes you think.

3: If you had to move and could only take 3 things with you, what would they be?

If I could only take 3 things it would be ,my phone, food and kids.

4: If your closest friend wrote a book about your life, what would the title be?

The title would be Drama Queen.

1: Describe your “average” day. What are your rituals/routines? 
Get up
Get picked up for work
Come home
Nap
Write
Eat
Work out
Spend time with wife
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2: What is your favorite book? (Why is it your favorite?)

Book 34 of the Animorphs series. Cassie morphs into a character called a "Hork-Bajir", which, at the time, was special. 
It's dumb, but it's the last book of the series I read before my life took a tumultuous turn in high school, so I couldn't continue the series for 12 years, when I read through the remaining 30 books at a Greyhound bus station.

3: If you had to move and could only take 3 things with you, what would they be?

My wife and our phones. We'd figure it out from there.

4: If your closest friend wrote a book about your life, what would the title be?

It's Just All One Big Joke to Him