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15 May 2014, 5:56 pm

What I Wish Your Child Knew About Autism
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/knowmore- ... 67390.html

I was really blown away by this. This is the kind of awareness that needs to be raised. This is the kind of blog postor article that needs to be distributed far and wide.

The way this is written is both sensitive and insightful. I wish the media was full of this.



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16 May 2014, 6:19 am

very very good article,thanks for posting that BetwixtBetween.


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16 May 2014, 1:57 pm

Very good article with one big exception. Stealing someone else's food is never ok.


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16 May 2014, 2:08 pm

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Stealing someone else's food is never ok.


I agree. Unless it's a baby who doesn't know any better.



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16 May 2014, 2:12 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:
Very good article with one big exception. Stealing someone else's food is never ok.


I don't think she said it was. I liked the inclusion of it.


Thanks for sharing. That was a nice article.


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17 May 2014, 8:48 am

to be honest i am damaged and i am broken and i dont give a f@#% who knows it.

whether thats because of autism or because of what i went through as child because of it.that i dont really know


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17 May 2014, 4:11 pm

This is so true! When I meet people that are more autistic then myself, they brighten my day with their happiness. :)


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19 May 2014, 7:57 am

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1. No offense, but Leo is not waiting around for non-autistic kids to be friends with him. If you're interesting enough, and if you talk to him with respect, maybe he'll want to interact with you. Maybe.


UGH, YES. Those classmates who thought they were doing me some kind of favor by trying to be friends with me when they were really just stealing my alone time. I know they meant well, but they were so annoying. I didn't want to hurt them, but I didn't want to talk to them either...


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