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	<title>The Alternate Lexicon</title>
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	<description>autism, atheism, feminism, linguistics</description>
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		<title>lunchtimes he&#8217;d spend walking by himself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made the first move in regaining an online social community today.  I&#8217;ve missed them.  I hope they take me back.
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		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/03/06/lunchtimes-hed-spend-walking-by-himself/</link>
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		<title>what does it take to stop getting carried away?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fair warning: there&#8217;s a lot of links in this post, and they&#8217;re not there to be pretty.
There&#8217;s been some discussion on ScienceBlogs of Jonah Lehrer&#8217;s recent piece for the NYTimes, a review of depression and rumination and some mildly interesting thoughts on why rumination may confer an evolutionary advantage, thus preserving depression through evolution.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/03/06/what-does-it-take-to-stop-getting-carried-away/</link>
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		<title>screaming, shouting in your ear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[High on the list of reasons why I am awesome:
Steampunk headphones.  Yes, they work.  Yes, they ARE badass, thank you.
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		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/03/01/screaming-shouting-in-your-ear/</link>
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		<title>lots of froth, please, for the photo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Prosper is sick of travelling.  However, he came home with a lovely consolation prize.
At the start of February, I escaped the second of back-to-back snowstorms with a meandering trip down to Atlanta to see Dad and Ron.  The cat came along and stayed with Mik, which Prosper was less than enthused about.
This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/02/27/lots-of-froth-please-for-the-photo/</link>
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		<title>when the kids called him weird he didn&#8217;t try to deny it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found at Autism Street originally.

I love TEDtalks; they are often enlightening, often entertaining, often interesting.  This talk is by Aimee Mullins, on the nature of disability, and is well worth your 22 minutes.
In more personal news, the cat and I are back from Hotlanta and pictures will arrive shortly.
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		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/02/21/when-the-kids-called-him-weird-he-didnt-try-to-deny-it/</link>
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		<title>young and caught in the crowd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The DSM-5 is due out in 2013, and it&#8217;s official: Asperger&#8217;s is no longer going to exist.  It will be merged with autism and PDD-NOS into a broad category of Autism Spectrum Disorder, with a &#8220;severity&#8221; numeric scale to help indicate what services are a good starting point.  You can read more about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/02/15/young-and-caught-in-the-crowd/</link>
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		<title>been lying there for weeks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[






There&#8217;s more at my photo stream on flickr.
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		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/02/04/been-lying-there-for-weeks/</link>
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		<title>between the dust and the debris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll update later today (it&#8217;s after midnight, it&#8217;s today!) with hair and cat photos, if I don&#8217;t completely forget.  As you do.  It&#8217;s snowy snow snowing outside again.  Another 4&#8243; on top of the 8&#8243; we had (that, to be fair, had melted down by half at least) over the weekend, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/02/03/between-the-dust-and-the-debris/</link>
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		<title>if you cry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, SAD.  My glasses were sold out when I went to order them.  It&#8217;s been a long and crappy couple of weeks&#8211;the internet was cancelled, my debit card was cancelled (both without warning), so I have only just got it together to purchase them.  NOT PLEASED.  SHOUTING. 
I&#8217;ve had a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/01/31/if-you-cry/</link>
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		<title>but girl, you&#8217;ve really gone and turned it into an art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An update on the glasses situation:
I have exchanged convivial emails with Scott Urban, of the awesomesauce Urban Spectacles.  His prices start at $650, lenses are included at cost, and all the fiddly stuff like inlays are (reasonably) more.  Who has some money to give me?  No?
I&#8217;ve also emailed with the Herrlich people, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/01/16/but-girl-youve-really-gone-and-turned-it-into-an-art/</link>
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