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		<title>so I throw myself on to the bed, onto the mercy of the truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just got back from my diagnostic interview at TEACCH. I have forms to fill out and turn in, at which point I will be on the wait list for an official diagnosis. As I &#8220;passed&#8221; the intake interview round, they agree that I&#8217;m almost certainly on the spectrum and want to work out precisely where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/07/01/so-i-throw-myself-on-to-the-bed-onto-the-mercy-of-the-truth/</link>
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		<title>all that we&#8217;ll have is this photograph</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Catching up on the last bit of Melbourne, the trip home, what I&#8217;m doing OMGRIGHTNAO and plans. We went to Kate&#8217;s hens night, which involved thai and karaoke and a lot of overstimulation, and the wedding, which was beautiful. We also went to a place trying to bill itself as molecular gastronomy coffee. It wasn&#8217;t, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/06/17/all-that-well-have-is-this-photograph-2/</link>
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		<title>and you&#039;ve come back to me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my head I repeat our conversations Over and over Till they feel like hallucinations You know me: I love to lose my mind It&#8217;s less than a week before I have to leave Melbourne, and so much has changed. I landed and was whisked away to the Windsor Hotel, a beautiful, historic bit of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/05/28/and-youve-come-back-to-me/</link>
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		<title>but you don&#039;t even see me at all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an invisible disability. You can&#8217;t tell by looking at me that there is anything neuroatypical about me. You might guess when I speak, though I put a lot of effort and spoons into keeping the conversation going and my tone appropriate (volume sometimes escapes me, but I&#8217;m usually WNL). If you do notice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/05/02/but-you-dont-even-see-me-at-all/</link>
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		<title>and you think you&#039;re pretty cool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I apparently fail at in-laws. Kit&#8217;s mother has a degree in disability studies and while I probably knew that information, I apparently failed to file it into the storage system. My brain makes me laugh.]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/04/27/and-you-think-youre-pretty-cool/</link>
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		<title>I think you would&#039;ve been crap at hunting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a long lead-up, but it&#8217;s probably worthwhile. The combined topical drift and pedantry is also pretty indicative of what it&#8217;s like to live in my head. So last week I lost my star on Jezebel. Jez is a Gawker Media website, and uses a tiered commenting system; commenters with stars by their names [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/04/27/i-think-you-wouldve-been-crap-at-hunting/</link>
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		<title>white clouds of comfort</title>
		<description><![CDATA[April is Autism Awareness Month. Some of the hub bloggers have pointed out that awarness is only a baseline&#8211;yes, in some cases we do need to make people simply aware of autism and the broader neurodiversity of which it is a part. But in many or even most cases, awarness is not acceptance; it provides [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/04/04/white-clouds-of-comfort/</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 possibly a couple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/02/03/between-the-dust-and-the-debris/</link>
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		<title>I&#039;m telling you every day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like most days at work, I&#8217;ve been hanging out on the autism hub reading; like very few days, I&#8217;m actually responding to something I read. So, Sarah talked about self-diagnosis and the hate that seems to come with that word (or similar, like self-identifying or self-labelling). Some of what she said I found really meaningful, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2009/11/29/im-telling-you-every-day/</link>
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		<title>we&#039;ll work it out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, I think that this expresses my current mood best. There is a box of sugar cookies behind me, taunting. True story: I once made Dylan a sugar cookie fiend out of fleece and it plays the sugar cookies rampage. I am aware that you are stunned at my awesome. I&#8217;m also currently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2009/11/25/well-work-it-out/</link>
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