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		<title>it&#8217;s easy to tell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the loss of spoons and almost inevitable migraine that will have me in bed tomorrow afternoon through sometime on Tuesday, I have to say that this weekend has been incredible. I drove up to Staunton yesterday (Saturday) morning, taking a long route through a national forest and over many pretty streams. Lots of wildlife. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/07/12/its-easy-to-tell/</link>
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		<title>no going back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Damn. I missed Autistic Pride Day, due to the fact that I was driving back from a visit to Staunton and Stina and Dylan, and then there was family and small children here. So, thanks to stark. raving. mad. mommy&#8216;s post about it, I&#8217;ve been inspired to do my own top ten list. The top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/06/20/no-going-back/</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>time will not hold us down anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to write a post since I landed in Melbourne. The city feels like home&#8211;well, maybe &#8220;feels&#8221; isn&#8217;t actually the word I want there. &#8220;Looks&#8221; is more accurate. I often have a difficult time noticing that I&#8217;m having feelings, let alone identifying them, until they&#8217;re big and overwhelming and scary. Melbourne looks like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/05/11/time-will-not-hold-us-down-anymore/</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>when the work was done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post has multiple topics because I am too lazy to make multiple posts. 1. I run google analytics on this website. I promise, I&#8217;m not tracking you down at all, my meagre readers, but I generally find it entertaining. Originally, I got analytics because I wanted to use it with etsy, and as an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/04/28/when-the-work-was-done/</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>part of me just crumbles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jezebel posted earlier about loneliness, which got me thinking about loneliness and the difference and overlap between autism, introversion, loneliness, and depression. They all have some overlap, in the sadness one can feel about being alone, but they are also all dramatically different. Introversion and extroversion are the endpoints of a spectrum all people are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/03/25/part-of-me-just-crumbles/</link>
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		<title>somewhere very far away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday morning, after a long night of not-quite-sleep reminiscent of being 8 and waiting for Christmas morning, I hauled myself out of bed at 6. I was on the road by 7, headed north. View Directions to Staunton, VA in a larger map The top line, where they split, was my route going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/03/17/somewhere-very-far-away-2/</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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