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New GAO Report: Schools Abuse Disabled Kids
["GAO" = Government Accountability Office, United States of America] From a new entry on the Mother Jones blog: GAO: Schools Abuse Disabled Kids — By Jen Phillips | Tue May 19, 2009 11:07 AM PST A new...
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I resisted. But it was futile.
Yes, it was inevitable. And now it’s done. I am now officially “Twitterpated.” The inexplicably enthusiastic should note, however, that I am NOT mobile, and email is still the most reliable way to...
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Learning By Example
Yes, mainstream “values” set the example. And, yes, our youth internalize those “values” and follow that example — albeit, sometimes too explicitly to suit our comfort and convenience: “The video was...
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Deficit-model feeds anti-Autistic prejudice
[Originally posted on June 24, 2009, as a comment on Helene Guldberg's Psychology Today article, "How the quack industry harms autistic children," an interview with Michael Fitzpatrick, discussing his...
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Disability Rights Community vs. Autism Speaks
[sent to family and friends] The letter below is the latest step in a national and international protest against the U.S. organization known as Autism Speaks. Countless attempts have been made to...
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Biting The Bullet
Okay, this is it. Teh Blog Of Doom is now LIVE once again — but by no means Ready For Prime Time. Not by a long shot. I just decided to throw open the doors, in hopes that the risk of embarrassment...
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“The Spectrum” — Old Autism-Related Pages Now Restored
Holicrapoli, six days, and what do I have to show for it? An ill-matched quickie background , still no decent header (my attempt to photograph artwork did not go well), and about a million...
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New sticky with a bit more meta, short form.
[New entries will appear below this one. Scroll me, baby.] First, for those who remember my blog from years past, my primary focus here is shifting away from autism, as I described in some detail under...
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A dream: I, the honored instrument of fictitious death(s)…
As I posted in my Tweet-stream, & on Tumblr just now: #dream Wow. Had a nap. Dreamed that Hunter S. Thompson had planned his own death, due to age & infirmity — & he chose me to carry it...
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Some thoughts on helping, and “helping”
[Prompted by a recent Tumblr reblog by duyukdv (Urocyon here on WP), I'm dragging this old one back up to the top of the timeline. It originally appeared here on February 29, 2008.] . [UPDATE: For a...
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Yearbook Too Good For Short Bus Rabble?
Or is it just another case of the same old pedestrian status quo negligence, born of socially constructed ignorance, that always governs the behavior of the privileged toward atypical and...
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APA Complicity in Abuse and Torture
A message from the Psychologists For Social Responsibility discussion group brings good news, and bad. A majority of the APA membership have made a significant step toward redeeming the organization,...
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Katie Couric’s Terrorphobia Inc.
To be fair, most of the corporate media float these sensationalist red herrings almost to the exclusion of all else. Nevertheless… Tonight on CBS News, Couric plugged an upcoming segment promising to...
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Meta: getting real
Just a quick update. My surge of motivation last year wasn’t enough to overcome the functional challenges I face in blogging, and frankly, that didn’t come as much of a surprise. But that’s fine....
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To Autism Speaks, on the Next Wave of Sandy Hook Victims
[I deliver the following without a trace of irony. There is no humor here. Only pain ... and one more crumb of hope.] Dear Autism Speaks, In the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, my sorrow for you is...
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Comment Wars – Border Skirmish Edition
*yawn* Casually objecting to the tiresome, if ever-so-slightly amusing title at FireDogLake, “Less an ideology than something that should be in the DSM-V” (a trivial posting, BTW), I posted the...
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