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AspieUtah
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22 May 2015, 5:17 pm

ISSUU.com wrote:
An international autism conference might seem an unlikely place to find a discussion of LGBT matters. But, at the 2015 International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) at the Little America and Grand America hotels on May 13 through 16, some researchers and advocates are looking to LGBT people for some answers in their work with autism....

ISSUU.com: "Autism-conference speakers look to LGBT community" (June 2015)
http://www.issuu.com/qsaltlake/docs/qsl1506e


...at page 14.


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22 May 2015, 7:55 pm

I'm not surprised. There's lots of people of "alternative sexuality" who are on the autistic spectrum.