Manisha Ladd
Appearances
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
Go ahead, Manisha. I have to add that when Akhil started typing, he would come home and he would have a conversation with some of the diseased family members, especially he would see my mom and
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
he would try to give me messages of some random people and say and that time his perception was that his purpose is to give messages to the people on the earth he would actually come home and tell that my teachers are not of the same
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
mind capacity of what i think this is so who are your teachers and he would say the stars moon and the stars are his teachers also many times i still experience that me and akhil we both are watching the same one video and office college class and in that during that time if i have some thoughts going on in my mind
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
he would tell me like why are you thinking about this and why are you thinking about that when we are watching the video together at the same time but my mind is drifting somewhere and he pauses me and tells me oh no you're thinking about that boy you're thinking about that girl and why are you thinking so i don't know what is this phenomena but i do experience that
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
Yeah, other times I also feel that mothers and the caregivers who are doing the communication need a lot of support and we don't have that support. So I felt so isolated and I just stopped going to anybody and say, I cannot talk. I cannot even discuss these things with you because you're not going to understand me.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
I cannot even take all these thoughts and these comments or even my emotional status to a doctor because I'm worried the doctor might prescribe something to me and say that, oh, you are too deeply involved. Or I'm tired of hearing from the parents, oh, you are too dedicated and you are different and you are too positive, you are too positive for me. So giving up is a very easy option.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
So I get, I've been compared with those parents and with those moms and with those family members who have given up. So I've been forced and directly I've been forced because I am not stopping. I am going, going, going, going and not stopping. So I've been forced to tell that and directly given a message to me that you are not giving up. You're not giving up.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
You want this to be go, go, go, go, go, go. And, and I feel that if, if I don't do this, then nobody else will do it because the more I, I listened to Akhil and more, I try to find those puzzle pieces. It's not only helping him, but helping others.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
But I, as a mother, I feel that I get so much of drained out because of not only about my child, but also from the other families and other moms who have those expectations. Oh, I want my child to do this. I want my daughter to do this. But they don't want to put in that effort and they've given up.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
I really feel we should have those resources, at least for these telepathy tapes on the mothers who have come ahead and are giving up. So we should have that kind of support system. And yes, as Katie, I agree. Like me, we not only have a kids of faith, but we mothers have been saying, because we are going there and showing results and they inspired, come tell us, Oh, he doing only for you.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
I had to tell the entire staff. It's not my problem. If it's not going for you, it's not my problem. If it's not going from for his dad, it's not my problem. It's his and his problem. So I had to put my step down, but not every mother is going to fight back like this. And again, constantly I'm tired of hearing you are different, you are different, you are different.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
So there has to be some support system.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
Akhil is now 23 years old, and when around he was 11 years old, he broke his silence through facilitated communication. And last but not least, Maria Welch.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
But this is autism is a new epidemic. As doctors do not understand and they have lack of education, the entire academia, entire special education is working on the outdated. and the OT which they provide, if they understand the OT, if they understand the senses, if they understand the brain, and their OT is really not hitting the brain. The school's OT is not hitting the brain.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
So the schools are absolutely outdated, completely outdated. The fresh new OTs who are coming from the schools, they have no knowledge, and we have to... Train them. We have to train the parents. We have to train the schools. We have to train the OTs. And biggest thing is all the parents, maximum, they go to the doctors. Doctors don't give a hope. Then the hope is only the school system.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
And the school system is constantly failing them, failing them, failing them. So the parents are surrounded by all the certified clinical professionals who feel they have the right to feel our kids are fooling themselves, are fooling us. And then the parents like us have to step up and say, you don't understand.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
because you have that lack of education so i think there's a huge lack of education and that's what i see there's so much effort i have to take not only for a parent but the the professionals and new ots who are passing out who have don't have any experience right now are asking for exorbitant salaries because the school ot schools are paying them at that level.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
And it's hard to compete and find those OTs because they say, hey, I go to the school. But if you go to the schools, you're stuck. There is no growth and no development there from a professional perspective.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
So that's my thing that I feel that our New Jersey Governor Murphy, who is signing all those grants to the families, there's a whole big revolution should happen that why you're giving to the schools. Hello, we families need it. There are different states. who get it and who does they decide whom we have to pay and whom we don't have to pay. So I think it is the school's outdated.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
Because they drive the moms crazy. When I go to the IEP, every time when I return back, I have tears in my eyes.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
And these are private special schools who are charging $100,000 or $65,000 per year, plus $20,000 as a transportation fee, where these transportation aides are not, not, not educated.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
anybody can go and pick up a driver and they don't even understand english and then they say it's not school says it's not my responsibility to train the train the drivers towards responsibility it is to train those drivers who cannot even take your child to the school and they don't know what to do deal with it because my child is sitting there and my child is is comprehending all the bad words which you are using in the bus
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
I mean, if you get me, Libby, Katie, and all these families on the stage, I can bet you we will have a lot of people. If you agree, clap. If you agree, bang on the... You know, that's the whole noise. It has to go out and everybody's going to be encouraged that I have to stand up for my child. Katie is not crazy. Libby is not crazy. All these moms are not crazy. We are experiencing it.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
and you are telling us to lie to the education system i like now a kid is 23 years old he's finished 58 plus 62 hours of college education and it is proctored it is proctored and if you don't want to believe i don't want to give him to any testing because my child is beyond your capacity When my child is not disabled, you all are disabled to understand my child.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
I put myself into a disability because I am disabled to understand my child. I don't have the capacity because my senses are so grounded and I am so connected to my body. That to go into the other dimension, I need to work on myself and I need to transform myself. And that's what my child is telling me. And I'm not doing it. I need to go into that journey.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
All right, Manisha, go ahead. yeah so in our case you know it was of course akhil wanted to be a part of this but there was no other solution there was no other option if we wouldn't have believed akhil then we were believing the society and the system which is constantly i've been feeling akhil so we had no choice but to believe akhil and i'm glad we we did that
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
because there was no other solution. That was a reality actually happening. So my argument with anybody who would come for even like a skepticism or looking for data, I would tell them, thank you so much. And if you want to collect the data, then we are the data. If you want to do the research, we need a minimum hundred to $200,000 to do the research. I don't need the data.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
I don't need the research. It's not my problem. Okay, this is the reality happening. It's like going to a doctor with a research paper. As per the research paper, two Advils makes a difference. But in my case, if I go to the doctor and tell those two Advils are not helping me, but I have to take a third Advil, then where is this research paper standing?
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
It's of no use because doctor is going to tell me, oh, if you need three Advil and if you need to take it, then go ahead and take it. Because that helps me. And even if doctor tells me, no, no, no, it's only two Advil, I'm still going to go and take three Advil because it's not helping me. So what's the use of this research data? So my adamancy was Akhil is the data, I am the data.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
Are you ready to take it? Because believing Akhil is to believing myself. If not, then I'm lying with my child. So that was my stance. And I still say the same story. And that's why I approached Dr. Diane Powell and I saw her video with Dr. Deepak Chopra. And I told her, I want Dr. Deepak to come and see Akhil and explain to us what is exactly this happening and why this phenomenon is happening.
The Telepathy Tapes
Talk Tracks Ep 3: Q&A with Parents, Scientists & Educators from Season One
So that's why we jumped into it.