Tag: living
group name: autistic-like
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September 30, 2007 06:06 AM EDT --
Dear Aspies and Spectrum families,
I just read the most wonderful article in the New Yorker. It was a music critic's account of growing up with, and eventually being diagnosed with, . . .
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February 09, 2007 04:20 AM EST --
You walk into your primary care doctor's office, tired, sick, perhaps too muddled to talk about what you're feeling, but definitely needing medical attention for that migraine or flu...you know, . . .
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September 18, 2006 01:49 PM EDT --
MARCUS FIESEL and FOSTER CAREThe story of Marcus Fiesel was pitched to Fox News, CNN and all the networks and got little or no play. No national coverage, thanks to John Mark Karr
It's the truly . . .
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November 22, 2006 12:15 AM EST --
When my 7-yr-old daughter Elise was diagnosed last year with ADHD and Asperger's, I started reading all I could about autism and its "spectrum" of disorders. The first thing I learned . . .
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July 28, 2006 12:55 PM EDT --
Guilt and/or Shame is perhaps one of the hardest core issues to resolve, just because of the fear, of what another human being might think of me…. if they knew.
How do we ever get caught up in wanting . . .
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January 28, 2007 08:05 PM EST --
Years before I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder, I was in a battlefield whenever I was in a social situation that turned into an argument. From my point of . . .
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July 31, 2006 12:41 AM EDT --
We believe that children are our future.
We believe that the American family is in crisis.
We believe that to change our society, we need to change the way we think.
We believe we are destroying our planet. . . .
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July 28, 2006 01:24 PM EDT --
The 1988 movie, The Rain Man, starred Dustin Hoffman as an autistic man and Tom Cruise as his frustrated brother. Both did a superb job of acting but Hoffman's portrayal as a savant was perfect. I . . .
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December 03, 2006 01:10 AM EST --
My nonverbal autistic son Matthew has been sick with a cough and runny nose for a few weeks. I kept him home a few days here and there since you need a note for long periods of time, so I bring him . . .
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May 25, 2006 09:50 PM EDT --
Back in September of 2004, I went to an open house at Allston-Brighton Free Radio, an independent community radio station in Boston, Massachusetts. The station was looking for new shows to put on . . .
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January 09, 2008 08:49 PM EST --
I was fortunate enough to meet comedy-rock legend "Weird Al" Yankovic in 1984 during a brief stay in Texas (I won a radio contest to "Eat It with Weird Al!", although . . .
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