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* TheSpeechless: Darren Kennedy, an autistic guy Jeremey knows from his time in the group home Icarus House,is almost entirely nonverbal. At most, he can whisper along to videos a little. He programmed his own communication app because the ones already available were too expensive for his family, and he speaks DSL - Darren Sign Language - a form of ASL heavily modified to be easier for him, which only a few other people understand.
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* TheSpeechless: Darren Kennedy, an autistic guy Jeremey knows from his time in the group home Icarus House,is House, is almost entirely nonverbal. At most, he can whisper along to videos a little. He programmed his own communication app because the ones already available were too expensive for his family, and he speaks DSL - Darren Sign Language - a form of ASL heavily modified to be easier for him, which only a few other people understand.
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* TheSpeechless: Darren is almost entirely nonverbal. At most, he can whisper along to videos a little. He programmed his own communication app because the ones already available were too expensive for his family, and he speaks DSL - Darren Sign Language - a form of ASL heavily modified to be easier for him, which only a few other people understand.
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* TheSpeechless: Darren is Kennedy, an autistic guy Jeremey knows from his time in the group home Icarus House,is almost entirely nonverbal. At most, he can whisper along to videos a little. He programmed his own communication app because the ones already available were too expensive for his family, and he speaks DSL - Darren Sign Language - a form of ASL heavily modified to be easier for him, which only a few other people understand.
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* {{Asexuality}}: Darren Kennedy, an autistic guy who lives at the group home Icarus House, is, as he explains, a panromantic asexual. He doesn't enjoy most touch at all, especially sexual touch, but he's curious about kissing. His attempts at flirting over the internet have so far come to nothing, but he's still hopeful.
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** In the second book, Jeremey compares The Roosevelt Project to carrying everyone else's oceans. Emmet says, "We aren't carrying the oceans. We're trying to find places to be to carry them themselves more easily." Jeremey says, "We're trying to shelter the sea, then."
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** In the second book, Jeremey compares The Roosevelt Project to carrying everyone else's oceans. Emmet says, "We aren't carrying the oceans. We're trying to helping them find places to be to carry them themselves more easily." Jeremey says, "We're trying to shelter the sea, then."
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* SavingTheOrphanage: In ''Shelter the Sea'', changes to state laws have put The Roosevelt in financial trouble. Emmet persuades Workiva to start a program to give The Roosevelt's residents part-time jobs to help pay for their room and board. Emmet, Jeremey, David, and Darren also go to the Ames City Council for backing, where Emmet discovers and corrects the misleading math used by a manipulative councilman who wants to cut funding. The four also go on a speaking tour, along with Jeremey's new service dog Mai, to fight a new bill that would award more contracts to private companies and make it harder for places like The Roosevelt to exist. [[spoiler:The bill passes, but the tour, and especially the dance routine the protagonists do to "[[Music/{{Shakira}} Try Everything]]" while dressed as the Blues Brothers, results in so much publicity, including a celebrity endorsement from Creator/DanAykroyd, that they raise all the money they need and more, enough to fund a Roosevelt Foundation and open similar facilities.]]
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* SavingTheOrphanage: In ''Shelter the Sea'', changes to state laws have put The Roosevelt in financial trouble. Emmet persuades Workiva to start a program to give The Roosevelt's residents part-time jobs to help pay for their room and board. Emmet, Jeremey, David, and Darren also go to the Ames City Council for backing, where Emmet discovers and corrects the misleading math used by a manipulative councilman who wants to cut funding. The four also go on a speaking tour, along with Jeremey's new service dog Mai, to fight a new bill that would award more contracts to private companies and make it harder for places like The Roosevelt to exist. [[spoiler:The bill passes, but the tour, and especially the dance routine the protagonists do to "[[Music/{{Shakira}} Try Everything]]" while dressed as the Blues Brothers, results in so much publicity, including a celebrity endorsement from Creator/DanAykroyd, that they raise all the money they need and more, enough to fund a Roosevelt Foundation and to open similar facilities.facilities across Iowa.]]
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* SavingTheOrphanage: In ''Shelter the Sea'', changes to state laws have put The Roosevelt in financial trouble. Emmet persuades Workiva to start a program to give The Roosevelt's residents part-time jobs to help pay for their room and board. Emmet, Jeremey, David, and Darren also go to the Ames City Council for backing, where Emmet discovers and corrects the misleading math used by a manipulative councilman who wants to cut funding. The four also go on a speaking tour, along with Jeremey's new service dog Mai, to fight a new bill that would award more contracts to private companies and make it harder for places like The Roosevelt to exist.
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* SavingTheOrphanage: In ''Shelter the Sea'', changes to state laws have put The Roosevelt in financial trouble. Emmet persuades Workiva to start a program to give The Roosevelt's residents part-time jobs to help pay for their room and board. Emmet, Jeremey, David, and Darren also go to the Ames City Council for backing, where Emmet discovers and corrects the misleading math used by a manipulative councilman who wants to cut funding. The four also go on a speaking tour, along with Jeremey's new service dog Mai, to fight a new bill that would award more contracts to private companies and make it harder for places like The Roosevelt to exist. [[spoiler:The bill passes, but the tour, and especially the dance routine the protagonists do to "[[Music/{{Shakira}} Try Everything]]" while dressed as the Blues Brothers, results in so much publicity, including a celebrity endorsement from Creator/DanAykroyd, that they raise all the money they need and more, enough to fund a Roosevelt Foundation and open similar facilities.]]
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* SavingTheOrphanage: In ''Shelter the Sea'', changes to state laws have put The Roosevelt in financial trouble. Emmet persuades Workiva to start a program to give The Roosevelt's residents part-time jobs to help pay for their room and board. Emmet, Jeremey, David, and Darren also go to the Ames City Council for backing, where Emmet discovers and corrects the misleading math used by a manipulative councilman who wants to cut funding. Bob Loris, David's father and the founder of The Roosevelt, wants to not only keep the facility open but also open more places like it in Iowa, so the four go on a speaking tour to raise money, along with Jeremey's new service dog Mai.
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* SavingTheOrphanage: In ''Shelter the Sea'', changes to state laws have put The Roosevelt in financial trouble. Emmet persuades Workiva to start a program to give The Roosevelt's residents part-time jobs to help pay for their room and board. Emmet, Jeremey, David, and Darren also go to the Ames City Council for backing, where Emmet discovers and corrects the misleading math used by a manipulative councilman who wants to cut funding. Bob Loris, David's father and the founder of The Roosevelt, wants to not only keep the facility open but four also open more places like it in Iowa, so the four go on a speaking tour to raise money, tour, along with Jeremey's new service dog Mai.Mai, to fight a new bill that would award more contracts to private companies and make it harder for places like The Roosevelt to exist.
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* SavingTheOrphanage: In ''Shelter the Sea'', changes to state laws have put The Roosevelt in financial trouble. Emmet persuades Workiva to start a program to give The Roosevelt's residents part-time jobs to help pay for their room and board. Emmet, Jeremey, David, and Darren also go to the Ames City Council for backing, where Emmet discovers and corrects the misleading math used by a manipulative councilman who wants to cut funding. Bob Loris, David's father and the founder of The Roosevelt, wants to not only keep the facility open but also open more places like it in Iowa, so the four go on a speaking tour to raise money, along with Jeremey's new service dog Mai.
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* FlashMob: Emmet, Jeremey, and David agree to start dancing to "[[Music/PharrellWilliams Happy]]" in Target, wearing Blues Brothers costumes, while the social worker Sally and Emmet's dad Douglass film them. About ten strangers join them in a dance line through the store.
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* FlashMob: {{Flashmob}}: Emmet, Jeremey, and David agree to start dancing to "[[Music/PharrellWilliams Happy]]" in Target, wearing Blues Brothers costumes, while the social worker Sally and Emmet's dad Douglass film them. About ten strangers join them in a dance line through the store.
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* FlashMob: Emmet, Jeremey, and David agree to start dancing to "[[Music/PharrellWilliams Happy]]" in Target while the social worker Sally and Emmet's dad Douglass film them. About ten strangers join them in a dance line through the store.
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* FlashMob: Emmet, Jeremey, and David agree to start dancing to "[[Music/PharrellWilliams Happy]]" in Target Target, wearing Blues Brothers costumes, while the social worker Sally and Emmet's dad Douglass film them. About ten strangers join them in a dance line through the store.
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* TitleDrop: In the first book, Jeremey texts Emmet, "sometimes I feel like is carrying a bucket of water but I'm trying to carry an ocean. its very hard. sometimes i would rather not carry my ocean, even if it meant I couldn't be alive."
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** In the first book, Jeremey texts Emmet, "sometimes I feel like is carrying a bucket of water but I'm trying to carry an ocean. its very hard. sometimes i would rather not carry my ocean, even if it meant I couldn't be alive."
** In the second book, Jeremey compares The Roosevelt Project to carrying everyone else's oceans. Emmet says, "We aren't carrying the oceans. We're trying to find places to be to carry them themselves more easily." Jeremey says, "We're trying to shelter the sea, then."
** In the first book, Jeremey texts Emmet, "sometimes I feel like is carrying a bucket of water but I'm trying to carry an ocean. its very hard. sometimes i would rather not carry my ocean, even if it meant I couldn't be alive."
** In the second book, Jeremey compares The Roosevelt Project to carrying everyone else's oceans. Emmet says, "We aren't carrying the oceans. We're trying to find places to be to carry them themselves more easily." Jeremey says, "We're trying to shelter the sea, then."
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* ContemplationLocation: Emmet's closet at The Roosevelt is his safe space, with pillows and blankets and a Lycra sensory sack. He goes there whenever he needs to focus and think.
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** Emmet's closet at The Roosevelt is his safe space, with pillows and blankets and a Lycra sensory sack. He goes there whenever he needs to focus andthink.think.
** His employers, Workiva, install a ball pit on his advice. He and some of his coworkers go there to think about ideas.
** Emmet's closet at The Roosevelt is his safe space, with pillows and blankets and a Lycra sensory sack. He goes there whenever he needs to focus and
** His employers, Workiva, install a ball pit on his advice. He and some of his coworkers go there to think about ideas.
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* TheirFirstTime: Emmet and Jeremey move into The Roosevelt, an assisted living facility, and have sex as soon as their parents are gone.
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* TheirFirstTime: Emmet and Jeremey move into The Roosevelt, an assisted living facility, Roosevelt and have sex as soon as their parents are gone.
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* {{Asexuality}}: Darren, an autistic guy who lives at the group home Icarus House, is, as he explains, a panromantic asexual. He doesn't enjoy most touch at all, especially sexual touch, but he's curious about kissing.
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* {{Asexuality}}: Darren, Darren Kennedy, an autistic guy who lives at the group home Icarus House, is, as he explains, a panromantic asexual. He doesn't enjoy most touch at all, especially sexual touch, but he's curious about kissing. His attempts at flirting over the internet have so far come to nothing, but he's still hopeful.
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* SignatureScent: Emmet has synesthesia. To him, Jeremey's smell is bluish green with brown and white flecks and bits of yellow, like an ocean wave.
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* DoesNotDrive: Emmet has been told that he will never be able to drive. He isn't sure why, because his aunt Althea, who is also autistic, can drive.
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** Emmet has been told that he will never be able to drive. He isn't sure why, because his aunt Althea, who is also autistic, candrive.drive.
** Jeremey has his driver's license, but driving makes him nervous, a problem that's gotten worse over time. He thinks he might be able to drive on a quiet street in a small town, but not in a city like Ames.
** Emmet has been told that he will never be able to drive. He isn't sure why, because his aunt Althea, who is also autistic, can
** Jeremey has his driver's license, but driving makes him nervous, a problem that's gotten worse over time. He thinks he might be able to drive on a quiet street in a small town, but not in a city like Ames.
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* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Emmet and his family know ASL for when speech is too hard for him. He taught it to Jeremey, and the two use it in ''Shelter the Sea'' to have private conversations about The Roosevelt's money problems.
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* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Emmet and his family know use ASL for when speech is too hard for him. He taught it to Jeremey, and the two use it in ''Shelter the Sea'' to have private conversations about The Roosevelt's money problems.
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* TheSpeechless: Darren is almost entirely nonverbal. At most, he can whisper along to videos a little. He programmed his own communication app because the ones already available were too expensive for his family, and he speaks DSL - Darren Sign Language - a form of ASL heavily modified to be easier for him, which only a few other people understand.
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* ContemplationLocation: Emmet's closet at The Roosevelt is his safe space, with pillows and blankets and a Lycra sensory sack. He goes there whenever he needs to focus and think.
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* {{Dedication}}: "for all who navigate the waters of life's superpowers, may you ever stay afloat"
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** ''Carry the Ocean'': "for all who navigate the waters of life's superpowers, may you ever stayafloat"afloat"
** ''Shelter the Sea'': "for those lost at sea, may you soon dance upon the waves"
** ''Carry the Ocean'': "for all who navigate the waters of life's superpowers, may you ever stay
** ''Shelter the Sea'': "for those lost at sea, may you soon dance upon the waves"
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* RailEnthusiast: Emmet is delighted that his family's new home is near a train track, which runs between his and Jeremey's backyards. Every time a train goes by, he counts the cars and engines and tries to find patterns in the way they're arranged.
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* RailEnthusiast: Emmet is delighted that his family's new home is near a train track, which runs between his and Jeremey's backyards. Every time a train goes by, he counts the cars and engines and tries to find patterns in the way they're arranged. When he and Jeremey move into The Roosevelt, he makes sure to get a room facing the tracks.
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* {{Gayngst}}: Jeremey's mom, Gabrielle, walks in on Jeremey and Emmet having their FirstKiss. She screams in horror, accuses Emmet of taking advantage of Jeremey, then accuses Jeremey of taking advantage of a retarded boy, and bans the two of them from seeing each other. She becomes somewhat more accepting after his suicide attempt, but she still wants him to get a "normal" boyfriend, rather than Emmet.
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* {{Gayngst}}: Jeremey's mom, Gabrielle, walks in on Jeremey and Emmet having right after their FirstKiss. She screams in horror, accuses Emmet of taking advantage of Jeremey, then accuses Jeremey of taking advantage of a retarded boy, and bans the two of them from seeing each other. She becomes somewhat more accepting after his suicide attempt, but she still wants him to get a "normal" boyfriend, rather than Emmet.
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** Emmet usually stands with his hands bent in front of him. He also rocks and flaps, especially during emotional moments.
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** Emmet usually stands with his hands bent in front of him. He also rocks and rocks, flaps, and hums, especially during emotional moments.
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* FlippingTheBird: David tells Emmet to hit him again when he's being an asshole. Emmet doesn't want to, and suggests that they come up with a gesture instead. David points out that there's a perfectly good gesture to tell people they're being assholes, and Emmet agrees to flip him off when necessary.
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* HandshakeRefusal: David's aide Jimmy extends his hand to Stuart, one of the autistic residents of The Roosevelt. Stuart HatesBeingTouched, so he hums and turns to face the wall.