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Aug 25, 2010, 6:21 am
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Aug 24, 2010, 3:06 pm
Waiting…My first day backAugust 24, 2010 in changes, children, itchy feet jumpy skin, school Today was my first day back to the university I’m attending and the girls’ second day of school. The mornings are fairly smooth, with lots of time allotted for any of Rosi... Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2010, 9:08 pm
First Day MissesAugust 24, 2010 in Uncategorized | Tags: all in all okay, bus, first day, mad The girls had a pretty good first day at school, all in all. Still, there were some glitches to this day that left me frustrated.Waiting on the afternoon bus. Their v... Comment - Like
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Aug 23, 2010, 7:22 am
Slowly, the ivy and vinca plan their attack.
The ivy makes its frontal approach, an all assault for the house.
It's wrapped around the deck, and reaches out, along with the rosebush, to grab us as we leave.
It waits by the front door.
The grasshopper watches from the ivy, waiting, waiting,... Comment - Like
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Aug 22, 2010, 9:36 am
The formation rests. You'll see they've been scouting this place for a week now.This one was alone, in the plum tree by the back deck. This one watched me from the peach tree.The sunflowers watched as well. The morning glories are trumpeting the news out to the rest of the flowers ... Comment - Like
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Aug 21, 2010, 10:56 pm
It was inevitable, really. I mean, you can't go growing nearly a half acre of whatever wild flowers and deliberate flowers decide to come up and stay awhile and not have them finally decide to make a move on the house, you know.
Oh, dear lord, and I thought Kathleen's sunflower was a big on... Comment - Like
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Aug 21, 2010, 12:51 am
Fear blinds us, immobilizes us, and makes fools of us. Scary stories abound on the internet, through emails, and in conversations, and dangers lurk in the dusty corners waiting to pounce on us and tear our loved ones from our grasps. We know this. We feel it viscerally. And sometimes we shake in our... Comment - Like
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Aug 20, 2010, 5:57 pm
Do some researchers exclude autistics with intellectual disability because they are trying to distort the research information or because they are controlling confounders? Some folks would have you think that researchers deliberately exclude those with intellectual challenges in order to distort inf... Comment - Like
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Aug 20, 2010, 12:00 am
I tell you, it's fairly sweet to be able to get lectures prepped and blog posts written all on the same material.
Carl Sagan, bless him, had a great deal of faith in humanity. He must have or he'd have never written this:
"If science were explained to the average person in a way that ... Comment - Like
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Aug 19, 2010, 11:32 am
I posted some guidelines that should be in everyone's skeptic toolkit; it was a short, simple post with no inflammatory rhetoric involved, nothing autism-specific, no examples of pseudoscience. In short, it was a completely unobjectionable post for anyone interested in how to avoid pseudoscience... Comment - Like
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Aug 19, 2010, 12:28 am
I'm working on lectures for my classes on how to think critically and recognize woo. Joseph Calabrese's Legends, Lore, and Lies is one of the texts I'm using to create the lectures.
His guidelines for evaluating claims are worth repeating here (though I suspect regular readers have litt... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2010, 10:14 pm
An artificial divide? A Look BackI wrote the following post 03/30/2009 over at Detritus, as I was first getting involved in the online autism community. Hmmm. It's easy to see, looking back at this post, how Kathleen and I began to work together to try to build places where community could happe... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2010, 4:02 pm
I don't do politics. It's not that I'm not interested in it; it's just that I butt heads on enough topics that, like religion, I'm not inclined to argue about politics. I can live and let live. What does bother me, though, and what I will discuss, is when news channels, and the p... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2010, 11:28 am
Autism Mom Rising and I have been having a wonderful email exchange, which she's posted at her blog. I hope you'll go read it and see that, well, the divides don't have to be so huge when we take the time to be specific and to listen. Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2010, 9:18 am
There is no "off" for college instructors, not really. My summer 2 session finished last week, so this is my one week (hee, yeah right) off this summer. And how am I spending it? Getting ready to teach! And to go back to school myself. Last year I got A & P and chemistry out of the way. This semeste... Comment - Like
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Aug 17, 2010, 9:49 am
Semantic: "of, pertaining to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion."
Pedantic: "overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching."
As an English instructor, I get that language usage changes over time, that wor... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2010, 9:32 am
I have a soundtrack playing in my head, nearly 24/7. It beats the hell out of my tinnitus, but it can be distracting at times. I wake up in the middle of the night to the music playing in my head. I have conversations while it phantom plays; I type and it's there, playing in the background. ... Comment - Like
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Aug 15, 2010, 12:53 pm
It's winking, don't you think? Or it forgot to put makeup on one side; that's what this sunflower makes me think. So, I thought I'd share it.
One week and the girls return to school. Okay, one week and a day. A week from tomorrow. 8 days. I blinked and the summer was over. I wonder ... Comment - Like
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Aug 14, 2010, 1:03 pm
We have all been there. In fact, we probably have already found ourselves in a situation today where we felt comfortable in looking at someone else's actions, behaviors, or lack thereof, and rendering that closed-off judgment: Not me. Never me. I'd never do that, never think that, never feel... Comment - Like
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Aug 14, 2010, 8:27 am
Thanks to Ken for finding the video and posting it on his blog!
Just push the play button; if you push anywhere else, it opens to the site that's carrying it.
Also, the volume is low on this, so I had to plug in external speakers to my lap top.
The opening piece is an excellent demonstration... Comment - Like
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Aug 13, 2010, 9:00 am
This isn't a topic to be snarky about. It isn't. Gods, and we should try to avoid being holier-than-thou about it, too.
It's a serious matter, as on it rests the heartbreak of far too many families. I think it is important to see this heartache within the larger context of the larger so... Comment - Like
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Aug 12, 2010, 12:58 pm
There are so very many fractures in the online autism community that I often think it's a wonder any of us can talk to anyone else! I can't help but wonder if this is unique to this community because of, well, indelicate as it may be, the BAPpiness that is readily obvious in the parents of a... Comment - Like
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Aug 11, 2010, 1:10 pm
Given the reports of another murder of an autistic child, and the angry place's unbelievable need to suggest, both through an article and a tweet, that it is the lack of support causing parents to kill their children, I'm revamping my filicide post from last month and adding additional infor... Comment - Like
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Aug 11, 2010, 8:57 am
Kim: Mamma H has some wisdom of the ages to share with readers, but she said I needed to warn you, it involves senior sex and, ummmm, some issues that time can cause. It's important stuff, though, and absolutely must-know, because forewarned is forearmed. After all, no one wants black eyes.
Mam... Comment - Like
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