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Chris Wines sits calmly, with quill and ink in hand, recording the details of the afternoon’s Revolutionary War reenactment. Chris is a 19 year-old multi-sport Special Olympian from Hammonton, New Jersey, and a member of the First Battalion of New Jersey Volunteers, among many things…“I’m a Red Coat. Everybody hates me” he explains with a smile.

Beneath his laser focus and fascination with technical tasks lies wisdom--and a catalogue of metaphors--to help the audience grasp his experience of living with an intellectual disability in today’s world.