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Mama! Look! A White Dove<br>Miracles, Freedom, and Happy Fourth of July and a Merry BBQ Thanksgiving to All

Some Guy<br>Jul 04, 2026

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I have rather a different view of miracles than most people, but firstly some sickly sweet anecdotes and a call for help.<br>My eldest son has now used his custom communication device to:<br>Tattle on his younger brother for taking off his diaper when no one was looking. He did this by pressing the button for his brother and “I need help with the potty” over and over again until my wife paid attention.

Tell us that he wanted his grandmother and grandfather to come back to visit by pressing their tiles plus “again” and “more.”

Successfully negotiated that he needed to eat two more French fries in order to get one ice cream cone at Chic-fil-A. We did this in the tile translation mode by just saying those words over and over again. Basically, we talk and he sees a flashcard for each word we say. This was more or less impossible only a few weeks ago. The text the board functionality I made previously is useful but sucks at real time back and forth.

During a meltdown in the middle of Costco, which the guy at the register remembered the next time we came back because it was so bad, when asked why he was so upset he navigated to the emotion board all on his own and hit “nervous.” Then when we got to the van and he had settled down I asked him how he felt and again, all on his own without me intervening, he self-navigated to the emotion board and hit “embarrassed.” Which is the only time I’ve cried in front of him during this whole thing but I hugged him quickly so he wouldn’t see.

He only eats a few types of food, including candy, but in the last month he has eaten: multiple waffles, pieces of pineapple, a donut, and expressed an extreme interest in corn on the cob which we are trying out today.

The straps of his car seat were hurting him and he hit he tiles for “hurt” and “help me” over and over again until we pulled over and fixed it. We wouldn’t have even known why he was upset until we got home.

Told his mother he wanted a “Sea Animal Puzzle” that he plays with at therapy for our home.

Argues with his mother about snacks versus meals, insisting that he should be able to have corn nuts when his mother is attempting to give him other food. They resolved this when she pressed “nachos” and he stopped and also pressed “nachos” plus “I want that” and “yes please.”

All asks for toys, food, movies and shows, now come through the device so routinely it’s like we never lived in a world where we didn’t know what he wanted. We never ever knew what any of these desires were before two months ago.

I am extremely exhausted. I feel like one of those dam overflow pipes that gets opened up to just spew forth massive amounts of water. Work is nuts and this is app build is also nuts. There’s a whole series of stuff my son never sees that I use to make this all work in the background. My in-laws came over yesterday and my wife showed them the board. They asked where we got it and I realized I just started spewing system requirements at them for like fifteen minutes. These are not people who are more than a little aware that AI exists. It was so weird and esoteric they hadn’t even realized I built the app from anything I said. They were already pretty emotional to see my son communicating but when my brother-in-law realized I had actually made it and it wasn’t something we had bought he started crying. Crying crying crying, all over lately. But some crying is good.<br>At Costco, again in front of the same cashier he freaked out on last week, he shouted with his own voice, “Mama! Look! A white dove!” Which as a Christian felt like a miracle even when we realized he was pointing at a display of dove bar soap. Last night as I was putting him to bed his youngest brother came in and said, “Night” to which he responded, “I love brother.”<br>To me, a miracle is not a violation of nature. Nature cannot be violated because God’s nature is natural to himself. A miracle is more like a coalescence of purpose. Events shift in just the right way, like a sunbeam through clouds on an overcast day, and you can see the higher purpose in things made manifest. That’s a miracle. What is happening for my eldest son right now and our family is a miracle. It doesn’t matter that I can explain it anymore than it matters that I can explain away a sunbeam by muttering something about nuclear fission and atmospheric currents.<br>I can’t let myself indulge in tears too much, especially in front of my son, because when you feel a fish bite the line you put your whole focus on the reel. So that’s where I’m at with it. My eldest son’s speech capabilities have taken the bait and my whole focus is on the reel making sure I can bring in the fish. I know not every kid or parent will have this experience but we are and even if this is only bringing...