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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Posted This On Autism Speaks Facebook Page |
| gitchel |
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Posted: 19 May 2011, 5:08 pm
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| I'm going to stick my (personal) neck out and speculate a bit. And I apologize ahead of time for thinking out loud. It's one of my processing techniques, for bad or good.... If the latest Korean study, or the one in Massachusetts, are even close, there are a lot more autistics than 1 in 100. In the ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Posted This On Autism Speaks Facebook Page |
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Posted: 18 May 2011, 6:58 pm
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Replies: 358
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| Genetic understanding can lead to genetic screening, prenatal testing, and an eventual decision a woman may make to have an abortion. But at this point, there is no guarantee that there will ever be a prenatal test specific for Autism. There have been specific genetic markers related to schizophr... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Posted This On Autism Speaks Facebook Page |
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Posted: 17 May 2011, 11:08 am
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| Actually, I don't have a lot of interest in changing Autism Speaks. A lot of energy and resources are wasted every day trying to change the minds of people who feel they have the only valid perspective. It's even more difficult when there are large amounts of money involved. As long as we do our be... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Posted This On Autism Speaks Facebook Page |
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Posted: 17 May 2011, 8:03 am
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| What are the best ways for Autistic people to influence Autism Speaks to make the positive changes that you see that are needed. Should they align themselves with organizations like ASAN to influence change, or try to do it on their own? Actually, I don't have a lot of interest in changing Autism S... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Posted This On Autism Speaks Facebook Page |
| gitchel |
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Posted: 16 May 2011, 10:20 pm
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| ...snip... 4. They should not endorse therapies for social behaviour for children who are unable to consent to it ...snip... 7. They should advocate for autistic children to receive help to cope with things they need to cope with (like their academic schoolwork) rather than things they don't need t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Posted This On Autism Speaks Facebook Page |
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Posted: 16 May 2011, 6:28 pm
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| 1. Autism Speaks should change it's name so that it isn't claiming to be speaking for all of us and presenting itself as if it had our support. 2. Autism Speaks should not use promotional material that includes parents saying they have considered killing themselves and their children, or endorse fe... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "What are you doing?" |
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Posted: 11 Apr 2011, 12:47 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,342
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"How are you?"
The correct answer is "Fine," even when you aren't. It always irritates me.
It always turns me grumpy - which I have to lie about when the next guy asks me how I am. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism Advocates |
| gitchel |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2011, 3:06 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 4,580
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| Nathan, I wasn't able to follow first link you posted, but I did take a look at the two videos in your sig. If the other is different from those two, can you send another link? Perhaps in a message, since I think our conversation is off-topic by now. From what I did watch, it's clear you an I have d... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism Advocates |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2011, 11:42 am
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| My focus right now in Iowa is to help adult autistics live as productive, fulfilling, independent lives as possible. No one from the board has had a single word about how I do that. As Leejosepho mentioned, I believe adults are often the ones left out when it comes to support. And now that you (Git... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism Advocates |
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Posted: 21 Mar 2011, 9:23 am
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Replies: 31
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| Nathan, I'm not sure exactly what history you have with ASAN, perhaps a difference in opinion about cures or prenatal testing, or something more personal, but ASAN's primary focus is in promoting the civil rights of autistics. We can argue about hurt feelings or real philosophical perspectives, wher... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism Advocates |
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Posted: 20 Mar 2011, 11:04 pm
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why the Kalam cosmological argument fails. |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2011, 11:20 pm
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Replies: 71
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| There's no evidence to say that God is immortal, or even singular. Since our universe exists completely within God there is no seeing out. And since we have no way to compare our sense of the passage of time with God's experience of time, we have no way to know if a trillion years inside the univers... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why the Kalam cosmological argument fails. |
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Posted: 11 Feb 2011, 6:18 pm
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| Time as a Pantheistic Construct Actually, time is a function of God. Time is simply a measurement of the pulses of God (the Universe). Time does not exist in the absence of what it measures. It measures change, motion, rhythm, growth, decay. The motions of stars, the burning sun, falling rocks, livi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why the Kalam cosmological argument fails. |
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Posted: 11 Feb 2011, 2:37 pm
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| First, I have to say I'm uncomfortable with the assumption that time is attached to the universe by definition. It is just as valid to assume time is attached to God or something else. In fact, since the creation of the universe is an event in time, a point on a continuum with at least one infinite ... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Difficulty in Sleeping |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2011, 8:02 am
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| Yep. Cartoon Network. Every night. All night. If my wife switches it off in the middle of the night, I wake up. Unfortunately, if she leaves it on a channel that plays infomercials, I don't wake up - I just have spooky weird dreams. I have managed to get by with the volume turned down to the bare mi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why all dictatorships Left Wing |
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Posted: 18 Dec 2010, 2:12 am
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Replies: 66
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| "Liberal" vs "Conservative"?! Am I really hearing a forum full of Aspies poking sticks at this trap? I've been around long enough to see these words change meanings MANY times. Someone's labels are usually defined by his enemies. You may have often seen the same thing happen with the word "Autistic.... |
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