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	<description>Occasional pontifications on civilization, barbarism, and autisticism.</description>
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		<title>Disability Rights Community vs. Autism Speaks</title>
		<link>http://dkmnow.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/disability-rights-community-vs-autism-speaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[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 impress upon the organization that its public rhetoric, policies and practices are profoundly harmful to ALL Autistic citizens, and that its leadership MUST [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dkmnow.wordpress.com&blog=2338732&post=95&subd=dkmnow&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deficit-model feeds anti-Autistic prejudice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[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 book, Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion.]
Not a bad article &#8211; especially in contrast to the kind of &#8220;information&#8221; that currently dominates popular opinion on the topic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dkmnow.wordpress.com&blog=2338732&post=73&subd=dkmnow&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning By Example</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 23:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, mainstream &#8220;values&#8221; set the example.  And, yes, our youth internalize those &#8220;values&#8221; and follow that example &#8212; albeit, sometimes too explicitly to suit our comfort and convenience:
&#8220;The video was made by girls at a Spanaway, Washington school who apparently had a falling out with a classmate, Piper. The clip carries illustrations of Piper [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dkmnow.wordpress.com&blog=2338732&post=69&subd=dkmnow&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I resisted. But it was futile.</title>
		<link>http://dkmnow.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/twitterpated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 15:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it was inevitable.  And now it&#8217;s done.
I am now officially &#8220;Twitterpated.&#8221;
The inexplicably enthusiastic should note, however, that I am NOT mobile, and email is still the most reliable way to contact me.  Don&#8217;t Blackberry me before I&#8217;m dead.
That is all.
As you were.
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		<title>New GAO Report: Schools Abuse Disabled Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 21:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[["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 &#124; Tue May 19, 2009 11:07 AM PST
A new GAO report shows that the Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts isn&#8217;t the only place where developmentally disabled and emotionally troubled kids have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dkmnow.wordpress.com&blog=2338732&post=56&subd=dkmnow&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Katie Couric&#8217;s Terrorphobia Inc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be fair, most of the corporate media float these sensationalist red herrings almost to the exclusion of all else.  Nevertheless&#8230;
Tonight on CBS News, Couric plugged an upcoming segment promising to examine the presidential candidates&#8217; positions on what she called &#8220;one of the most serious threats to this country, Islamic extremism.&#8221;
My immediate reaction:
NO, Katie. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dkmnow.wordpress.com&blog=2338732&post=50&subd=dkmnow&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>APA Complicity in Abuse and Torture</title>
		<link>http://dkmnow.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/apa-abuse-torture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, at least on the issue of participating in &#8212; and thus, tacitly condoning &#8212; inhumane treatment of detainees.
Many such organizations of legal and helping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dkmnow.wordpress.com&blog=2338732&post=42&subd=dkmnow&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yearbook Too Good For Short Bus Rabble?</title>
		<link>http://dkmnow.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/yearbook-exclusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 non-privileged members of society?
Does it matter which?  Intent may signify malice, but if the cause is mere ignorance and carelessness, what&#8217;s the difference?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dkmnow.wordpress.com&blog=2338732&post=39&subd=dkmnow&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For All Our Mothers, Yours and Mine, Then, Now and Forever</title>
		<link>http://dkmnow.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/mothers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 05:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of fears!
Say firmly: &#8220;We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dkmnow.wordpress.com&blog=2338732&post=38&subd=dkmnow&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Search of Awareness</title>
		<link>http://dkmnow.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/in-search-of-awareness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[or, The Ghost of Easters Past &#8230;
For those in search of Autism Awareness, I suggest you start by turning OFF your television.
.
As a child, my experience of Easter was mixed.  My early memories include the fun, the frivolous, and the unfortunate, the curious and the catastrophic, the &#8220;renewal&#8221; of spring and the crushing blows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dkmnow.wordpress.com&blog=2338732&post=37&subd=dkmnow&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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