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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Book - ‘I Will Die On This Hill’ Inclusive Perspective |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2023, 10:29 am
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| My Twins Are Autistic, I Was Told my Son Didn't See me as Human' - Meghan Ashburn for Newsweek When my twins, Jay and Nick*, were born in October 2013, they spent six weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit in Virginia where we live. They were six weeks premature and I was instantly thrust into s... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Will all those saying Trump is done look like fools again? |
| ASPartOfMe |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2023, 5:22 am
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| The former president's chances, once dim, are brightening - Matthew Continetti for the Free Beacon Donald Trump spent the final months of 2022 reeling from electoral setbacks and media disasters. Many of his high-profile endorsements in the midterm elections flopped. His attacks on popular GOP gove... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: GOP Rep. Slammed for Gifting Grenades to Colleagues |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2023, 2:05 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 215
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| Newsweek Representative Cory Mills, a Florida Republican, is under fire on social media after gifting hand grenades emblazoned with the Republican elephant symbol to his congressional colleagues. On Thursday, an image began circulating on Twitter of a letter penned by Mills, a freshman congressman,... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Becoming a geriatric How did it make you feel? |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 11:01 pm
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Replies: 8
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Mixed feelings for me.
I am very grateful to have survived, especially as an Autistic person.
I miss physical things I used to be able to do that I can’t now. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: General predicts China War, preps officers |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 10:16 pm
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Replies: 14
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| Air Force general predicts war with China in 2025, tells officers to prep by firing 'a clip' at a target, and 'aim for the head A four-star Air Force general sent a memo on Friday to the officers he commands that predicts the U.S. will be at war with China in two years and tells them to get ready t... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Classified documents found in Biden’s old office |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 10:13 pm
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Replies: 133
Views: 2,935
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| Biden's notebooks among items seized by FBI in Delaware home search Notebooks that President Joe Biden wrote in during his time as vice president are among the items the FBI took from one of his Delaware homes during a search there last week, according to a person familiar with the investigation. T... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 5 Memphis cops fired for death during traffic stop |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 9:09 pm
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Replies: 17
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| What the Tyre Nichols beating video shows Bodycam footage of 29-year-old father Tyre Nichols calling for his mother after being beaten by police in Memphis has been released, and the city is braced for protests. Mr Nichols died in hospital three days after being pulled over for alleged reckless dri... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Nancy Pelosi’s husband hospitalized after assault at home |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 9:00 pm
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Replies: 151
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| New video, audio show attack on Paul Pelosi in excruciating detail Newly released video footage and audio show Paul Pelosi’s violent confrontation last fall with a home intruder who described his plans to attack then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other elected officials. A San Francisco judge this week ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: "Large, destructive" tornado slams Houston suburbs |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 12:38 pm
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| https://abc13.com/houston-weather-forecast-today-texas-rain-storm-predictions-temperatures/39346/ It just missed my house by ~2 miles. Miraculously, we didn't lose power or have any damage, but I took precautions and got in a closet with my dog. Many of the restaurants and stores we frequent had so... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Toronto club fined for requiring constant supervision |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 12:17 pm
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| Exclusive club in Toronto fined $35K for telling man with autism he required supervision at all times The family of a prominent Toronto artist with autism is speaking out after one of the city’s oldest private clubs demanded he be supervised at all times while using the facilities – a decision that... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: ‘Today Show’ article about “Autism Wars” |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 8:36 am
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Replies: 35
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| The main issue as ever is people trying to speak above and impose their views on others who don’t accept those views. For a start why are ND advocates at an autism scientific conference researching potential treatments? Many proudly proclaim their autism is not a problem to be fixed, they don’t wan... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: ‘Today Show’ article about “Autism Wars” |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 7:55 am
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Replies: 35
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| Overall that twitter reaction further reinforced my advice for all seriously involved to stay away from that platform. Overall it came across as people demanding an article to both agree with them 100 percent and discuss every aspect of their agenda. In other words woke. One can not expect an articl... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: ‘Today Show’ article about “Autism Wars” |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 7:12 am
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Replies: 35
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| It's not quite accurate to describe this as a "war between parents of children with autism and autistic adults," because some parents (including even some parents of severely disabled autistic children) are on the autistic self-advocates' side. It's also a "war" between parents ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Conviction in 2017 Manhattan terror attack that killed 8 |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 6:40 am
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| NYC bike path terror attack: Suspect found guilty Sayfullo Saipov, an Uzbek native who drove a rented truck down a Manhattan bike path adjacent to the Hudson River in an ISIS-inspired terror attack that killed eight people, was convicted Thursday by a federal court jury of murder and attempted murd... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Baltimore: ALL Confederate Statues Have Now Been Removed |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 6:24 am
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Replies: 883
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| Long Island street gets new name replacing sign named after KKK leader Behind a paywall The Village of Malverne will be unveiling a new name for a downtown street Thursday that, for the past century, has carried one from a village founder and leader of the Ku Klux Klan. The Malverne Village Board u... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Pope - Homosexuality "is not a crime," gay sex is "a sin" |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 5:59 am
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Replies: 18
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| CBS News Pope Francis has called laws criminalizing homosexuality as fundamentally "unfair," making it clear that in the mind of the leader of the Catholic Church, "being homosexual is not a crime." The pontiff addressed discrimination against the LGBTQ community, his own health... |
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