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From the Ted Talk by Rosie King: How autism freed me to be myself
Unscramble the Blue Letters
But if you think about it, what is normal? What does it mean? Imagine if that was the best cmneopmlit you ever received. "Wow, you are really normal." (Laughter) But compliments are, "you are extraordinary" or "you step outside the box." It's "you're amazing." So if plopee want to be these things, why are so many people striving to be nmarol? Why are people pouring their brilliant individual light into a mold? People are so afraid of variety that they try and force everyone, even people who don't want to or can't, to become normal. There are camps for LGBTQ people or autistic people to try and make them this "normal," and that's terrifying that people would do that in this day and age.
Open Cloze
But if you think about it, what is normal? What does it mean? Imagine if that was the best __________ you ever received. "Wow, you are really normal." (Laughter) But compliments are, "you are extraordinary" or "you step outside the box." It's "you're amazing." So if ______ want to be these things, why are so many people striving to be ______? Why are people pouring their brilliant individual light into a mold? People are so afraid of variety that they try and force everyone, even people who don't want to or can't, to become normal. There are camps for LGBTQ people or autistic people to try and make them this "normal," and that's terrifying that people would do that in this day and age.
Solution
- compliment
- normal
- people
Original Text
But if you think about it, what is normal? What does it mean? Imagine if that was the best compliment you ever received. "Wow, you are really normal." (Laughter) But compliments are, "you are extraordinary" or "you step outside the box." It's "you're amazing." So if people want to be these things, why are so many people striving to be normal? Why are people pouring their brilliant individual light into a mold? People are so afraid of variety that they try and force everyone, even people who don't want to or can't, to become normal. There are camps for LGBTQ people or autistic people to try and make them this "normal," and that's terrifying that people would do that in this day and age.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
autistic people |
3 |
Important Words
- afraid
- age
- amazing
- autistic
- box
- brilliant
- camps
- compliment
- compliments
- day
- force
- imagine
- individual
- laughter
- lgbtq
- light
- mold
- normal
- people
- pouring
- received
- step
- striving
- terrifying
- variety