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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Alex Plank / Katie speak at United Nations World Autism day |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2008, 8:57 pm
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| Katie Miller and I spoke at the United Nations for World Autism Awareness Day. Here's a one of our clips. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLqEayVvYuU[/youtube] let me know what you think about it! Wow Alex. So far I've only seen the one where Nicholas Gray was speaking. Suzanne Wright's res... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Article on Autism featured in this month's WIRED magazine |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2008, 4:32 am
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| Anyone who reads it, please note they at one point quote me as saying something, when I was actually telling them the story of what D.J. Savarese once told an interviewer. That's the "treated with respect" part. I was clear that it was D.J.'s words when I was talking to them, but their tape recorde... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: munchausens syndrome |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2008, 4:13 pm
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Replies: 72
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| I wouldn't be surprised if parents of ASD kids (who are frequently on the spectrum themselves) get accused of Munchhausen's by proxy more often than non ASD parents. I have never been accused of it, but I spent a couple of years being afraid of it because one of the traits/signs/symptoms of Munchhau... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Voices of autism 'silenced' by charity-NTSpeaks.org another |
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Posted: 31 Jan 2008, 3:33 am
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Replies: 42
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| Voices of autism 'silenced' by charity 02 February 2008 From New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. Celeste Biever ... AN EXTRAORDINARY dispute has broken out between people with autism and a charity that aims to help them. At stake is how such people are perceived by the gen... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What is positive about autism? |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2008, 4:34 am
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Replies: 59
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| What do you see are the positive attributes of autism? I think most of the ones I would give have been listed. I'm not sure if anyone said... a tendency to see all people as equals. Egalitarianism. Aspies might think they are from another planet, but they would not be so likely to say, "Take me to ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Speaks Site |
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Posted: 21 Jan 2008, 12:19 am
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Replies: 61
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| ... Many of the people on Autism Speaks have LFA kids and can't see why anyone would want to be the way they are. My impression is that most of the parents on AS board have PDD,nos kinds of kids and some have Asperger's. There are definitely parents on that board (sock puppet types) who lie about h... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Autism Speaks Site |
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Posted: 20 Jan 2008, 11:10 pm
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Replies: 61
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| anbuend said One, autism isn't a sliding scale. It's a many-dimensional thing. I'm happy to agree with that, I usually say that but for the purposes of discussion/understanding I simplified it. Regardless of how it's actually arrived at there's a point at which the affected person cannot function s... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: anti-vaccine thinking led to murder of 3 yr old by mother |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2008, 3:57 am
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Replies: 45
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| PEKIN, Ill. (AP) — A woman accused of killing her autistic daughter testified Friday that she attempted to suffocate the 3-year-old with a pillow three days before she succeeded with a plastic garbage bag. Karen McCarron said she couldn't go through with it using the pillow. When prosecutor Kevin J... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Article about conspiracy theories in The Telegraph |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2008, 2:12 am
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Replies: 0
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| Lies, damn lies and 'counterknowledge' By Damian Thompson [page 2] ...The dividing line between fiction and non-fiction is becoming increasingly hard to draw. These days, public opinion is so malleable that a product does not even have to pretend to be fact in order to affect perceptions of truth: ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: anti-vaccine thinking led to murder of 3 yr old by mother |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2008, 1:39 am
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| Okay... so the first post is irrational, but accusing someone of being part of Eli Lilly just because they disagree with you isn't!? And, for that matter, anyone "really" dealing with autism would agree with you? That's even more unlikely than the original post. CONSTANT pro-vaccine! all that is on... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Vaccines are ineffective and dangerous |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2008, 1:23 am
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| You can search the web for scientific evidence of the risks. I won't bother searching again for it and posting because I doubt it will convince you. As to the contaminants: quantitative evidence? - the drug companies certainly aren't going to test for it As to the Amish: non-anecdotal evidence? - m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Does Anyone's Eyes Vibrate? |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2008, 1:09 am
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| My ASD kid has nystagmus. But it's only noticeable when s/he looks up, down, left or right as far as possible. Eye doctors test for it by having people look to the right, left, etc without moving their heads. In my kid's case it's probably caused by Arnold-Chiari syndrome (a not too uncommon brain m... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Age of dads in Poll form |
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Posted: 13 Jan 2008, 12:55 am
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Replies: 28
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| I think my dad was about 37ish when I was born, my mom was about 36. My ex was 24 when our ASD kid was born, and 26 when the NT kid was born. But there's another set of data that points to the grandmothers of boys on the spectrum, that is their being older when they give birth to daughters who then ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Why is aspergers syndrome grouped with autism? |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2008, 2:10 am
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Replies: 48
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| I think of AS as a different type of personality caused by genetics. I think AS was underdiagnosed previously and the rate has remained about the same throughout history. I think of autistic disorder (which I have) as a medical condition caused by the environment that has greatly increased recently... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The PBS Documentary "Today's Man" |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2008, 12:44 am
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| I would like to ask those of you who saw the documentary tonight on PBS, at what functioning level the subject was. He seemed medium-functioning to me. He wasn't able to live by himself. I'm curious to know where the line is drawn between high-functioning and low-functioning. My understanding is th... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: anti-vaccine thinking led to murder of 3 yr old by mother |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2008, 9:35 pm
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| autism_diva, I feel bad for the girl and I'm sorry it happened. I just don't think it was anti-vaccine thinking that caused her to do what she did. I think she was mentally unstable and would have done it anyway. I think she felt hopeless that she couldn't be cured. If she bought into the genetic t... |
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