KEY LINKS
NomadAlliance.org – Includes post-interview conversation with Kseniya

StrangersYouKnowPodcast.com – Includes additional photos, Additional Bonus conversation with Silence, Brian, and Kseniya that includes Silence talking about his given name and how he can track God’s love for him through a sequence of peanut-butter sandwiches.

FaceBook Community Page – Includes pre-interview setup video.

CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Abuse, Physical Abuse, Domestic Abuse, Drugs, Suicidal Ideation

Brian [00:01:33] Today's conversation is with a 31-year-old self-proclaimed country boy named Silence due in part to a heavy daily dosage of Ritalin by his mother. Silence was born at £1.7, pigeon-toed and with a lazy right eye and hole in his heart. For the last six years, Silence has survived on the streets of Salt Lake City. I had the privilege of meeting him through one of my previous conversations Kseniya. I asked her if she would do the honor of introducing silence. 

Kseniya [00:02:00] It's an honor to introduce Silent is one of the first friends, the Nomad Alliance, met on the street on Christmas Eve 2020. It wasn't until third grade when he skipped to fifth grade that people really realized that he was an autistic savant. He hasn't 187 IQ, and yet he has spent the last six years unhoused and broken. And we are so proud to say that Silence has been sober now for nine months. He is employed in construction and he finally believes in himself as much as we always have. When I met him, his hair was to the shoulder. He was peeking out from a pile of blankets. The homeless man sleeping on that sidewalk just down the street. 

Brian [00:02:42] Before jumping into my talk with silence, I need to give you a little more information. First, today's episodes contains all the trigger warnings. If you've had experience with domestic abuse, sexual assault, drugs and suicidal ideation, please proceed with caution. Second, this is an important enough conversation that I believe everyone needs to hear the entire story. In silence, his own words. Third, there is a lot of information about Silence that didn't make it into this episode. Cassini recorded a follow up interview with Silence in her car that shares his thoughts about our conversation that I would love everyone to hear. She has posted it on her organization's website at NomadAlliance.org. There is a separate, shorter conversation that I recorded with Silence and Kseniya, where he shares additional information about his namesake and how he tracked God's love for him through a series of peanut butter sandwiches. It's another story that you want to hear. I will post that interview separately on Facebook. On Our Strangers, you know, podcast community page. Next Silence posed for a Nomad All

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