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	<title>The Alternate Lexicon &#187; frustrations</title>
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		<title>I thought we talked this over yesterday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My attention span is currently at a level I would describe as &#8220;kitten.&#8221; I&#8217;ve known for a long time that my attention is directly correlated to the interestingness of the material&#8211;this isn&#8217;t unusual for kids identified as gifted (nor the adults they grow into), or anyone on the spectrum. In fact, it was this extreme [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/07/16/i-thought-we-talked-this-over-yesterday/</link>
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		<title>your skin was electric</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please allow me to begin with shouting. If anyone loves me $13 worth, I am SO EXITED. Anyway. I&#8217;m constructing a post about spoons and variability thereof and executive function, but, ha, I do not currently have the ability to construct this in a manner that is grammatically correct or readable. I will return to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/06/26/your-skin-was-electric/</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>we&#039;ve got such important things to do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even Blogging Against Disablism Day can&#8217;t stop the Kate lyrics. To paraphrase Stina: either words have meaning or they don&#8217;t. Let me flesh that out for you a little bit. I believe that words are impactful, and that our word choices reflect a combination of our backgrounds, our individual lives, and our education on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/05/01/weve-got-such-important-things-to-do/</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>lunchtimes he&#039;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.]]></description>
		<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>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 this here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternatelexicon.com/2010/02/15/young-and-caught-in-the-crowd/</link>
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