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JonAZ
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02 Oct 2012, 12:43 am

I am trying to remember the user name for a wrong planet member. I would appreciate your help.

This is what I remember about her.
01. Her post were very very long.
02. She was on television because she types 160 words per minute. Yet, she is nonverbal.
03. She lives in a group home or supported living environment.
04. She is heavy set and states that she does not care much about hygiene.
05. She is extremely smart.

I would greatly appreciate your efforts to recall her user name. I want to try and sender her a private message. However, I need a user name to do this.

I apologize if I posted this under the wrong forum.


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02 Oct 2012, 1:09 am

I don't know anything about her being on WP, but are you talking about Amanda who blogs as Ballastexistenz?



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02 Oct 2012, 3:33 am

Anbuend. Though any PM you send might go unread as I haven't seen her post in a long while. Hope she's ok.



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02 Oct 2012, 5:28 am

I'm not familiar with the member, but after reading the first post, I just wanted to ask if anyone had a link to the television show she was on? I'm quite interested in the phenomenon of ASD people who are able to communicate with text/typing but not words (partly because I have some similar issues myself) so I would like to see it!



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02 Oct 2012, 7:01 am

OT: Wow! 160 wpm? She must have very well muscled hands. I've met some people who can type 120 - 130 wpm and I'm just in awe when I see them click away.


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02 Oct 2012, 7:57 am

It's very likely anbuend, as blue_bean said. She was struck with pneumonia about a month ago, and was admitted to hospital.

While she hadn't posted on Wrong Planet in a while, she did maintain her blog BallastExistenz, where she announced her pneumonia. It was Callista who informed those of us who weren't aware. There hasn't been news on her condition since.


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09 Oct 2012, 4:01 pm

I forgot to thank you for helping me find this young lady.

She is one heck of a cool lady.


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09 Oct 2012, 4:32 pm

This is her viral video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc



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09 Oct 2012, 5:06 pm

I also think she's cool. 8)


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09 Oct 2012, 9:04 pm

y-pod wrote:
OT: Wow! 160 wpm? She must have very well muscled hands. I've met some people who can type 120 - 130 wpm and I'm just in awe when I see them click away.


And I can barely hit 60 wpm. 8O


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09 Oct 2012, 9:11 pm

I hope she is ok. I hope we are kept informed on her condition. I didn't make the connection between her username here and who she really is.


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