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John Nemth


Sept-Oct 2001

John standding next to a client who is working at a table“I’ve been working here one month and I love the job. I’ve never worked with a group of people like this before. I’m the teacher, but they are teaching me as much as I teach them. I work with people from every part of society, and I’m learning how people don’t need to be judged by anything but the content of their character. It has opened my eyes.”

He describes one client: “She catches other people’s mistakes as they come through. I didn’t think she was as high functioning because she wasn’t as verbal as others. But she catches on quicker than they do. So it has taught me not to use that [verbal skills] to judge people.”

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