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Assburgers Syndrome

March 10, 2010

This morning when I logged into AspieWeb’s twitter account (http://www.twitter.com/AspieWeb – you should follow us) an interesting trend showed up.  The term Assburgers is now a Top trend in the United States on twitter.com, and I decided to investigate why.  So now, lets look at why Assburgers has become a hot topic on Twitter.

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Poem That Describes Aspergers

March 7, 2010

Here is a great poem that described Aspergers Syndrome.  Its called ‘Alone’ and it was wrote by Edward Alan Poe.  I found this poem while I was watching an old episode of SeaQuest DSV.

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iPhone and iPod Touch Augmentative Communication

March 6, 2010

There is a  great new application out for the iPhone and iPod touch that gives you great augmentative communication software right in the palm of your hand. 

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How To Help A Suicidal Friend

March 6, 2010

Here is a list of things I stole from Dawson McCallister on how to help a suicidal friend.

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Socially Two

March 4, 2010

I’m having to face something that I may do not like, I’m always going to be the social equivalent of a two year old.  I’ll never be able to socialize like other people with disabilities and normal people do, because I just will never understand it. 

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Autism Is A Gift

March 1, 2010

Temple Grandin, a prominent animal rights activist that Kate first told me about also has autism.  Shes the professor of Animal Science at Colorado University.  Grandin talks about how if you eliminate people on the Autism Spectrum in today’s world you would eliminate many of the brilliant minds in Silicon Valley, and other historically important [...]

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Adoption Agency Discriminating

February 24, 2010

As I posted earlier today I had an important meeting with the adoption agency today.  It went as expected, horribly. 

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Emotional Meltdown

February 16, 2010

Yesterday was a day that I was overwhelmed with emotions.  I had learned that my daughter was born nine days ago, and no one told me.  (More on the feelings on my personal website).  I got overwhelmed with emotions, so much sadness, concern, grief, and despair, plus anger at myself and the situation going through [...]

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Nasty Aspie

February 15, 2010

I  previously wrote about removing the Aspergers diagnosis from the DSM and to my dismay there are people with Aspergers out there who are against removing it for very hateful reasons.

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On Removing Aspergers Diagnosis

February 11, 2010

Removing the Aspergers Diagnosis from the DSM is a controversial and hot topic in the Autism advocacy community.  Many people are angered by merging Aspergers with Hugh Functioning Autism.

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