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• Recommended Reading for November 10

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  Transcript from Melissa Barton Interview This is a transcript of Sharon daVanport’s interview with Melissa Barton for the Asperger Women’s Association. Melissa’s son Alex was voted out of his kindergarten class Survivor-style by his teacher, Wendy Portillo, in May 2008; Alex has Asperger Syndrome. The Bartons ...
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• Transcript: AWA interview with Ari Ne’eman and Paula Durbin-Westby of ASAN

  
  Sweet Perdition — Authority: 110
  This is a transcript of the November 2, 2009 appearance of ASAN’s Ari Ne’eman and Paula Durbin-Westby on AWA Radio with Sharon daVanport. Sharon daVanport: Hello everyone and welcome to AWA Radio. This is Asperger Women’s Association’s official talk time. Today is Monday, November 2 and we have quite ...
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• Mom Investigating an Incident: Why Won’t My ADHD Son’s School Give Me Details of His Inappropriate Behavior?

  
  EmpoweringParents.com — Authority: 118
  I got a call from my son’s teacher last week. Apparently, he used an inappropriate word and perhaps a hand gesture to accompany it to another child. That child’s parent had called the principal. The principal asked my son Builder’s teacher to handle it. She did. Builder denied it ever happened. I know ...
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• What Is The Value Of A Life? | Psychology Today

  
  A Clever Resource — Authority: 108
  Great piece by Lynne Saroya’s Asperger’s Diary: Life through the lens of Asperger’s Syndrome on Psychology Today about self-worth, heroes, and being different. What Is The Value Of A Life? | Psychology Today.
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• autism spectrum disorder and intellectual work-arounds

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 443
  I just finished reading John Robison’s book Look Me in the Eye. It is his own story about growing up with Asperger’s syndrome.  People with Asperger’s syndrome are considered to be in the “Autism Spectrum” of disorders, which are conditions in which people have varying difficulties dealing with other ...
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• What Is The Value Of A Life?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  I was once told that I shouldnt have kids, because the child could be born with Aspergers, like me.   I answered with a question - "Would you have given the same advice to my parents?" "Well," came the answer, "look at all the difficulties youve had, and the pain youve had to endure...surely you wouldnt wish that ...
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• The end of Aspergers Syndrome?

  
  Mad World — Authority: 427
  World of Psychology reflects today on a New York Times article suggesting that Aspergers Syndrome is unlikely to feature in DSM-V the next version of the US psychiatrists bible.
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• Bye Bye Asperger’s Syndrome?

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 611
  Is the diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome — a mild form of autism mostly diagnosed in boys — heading the way of the dodo bird? A new article in the New York Times suggests that the new revision of the diagnostic manual — the DSM-V — is likely to do away with the diagnosis. How can you just delete an entire ...
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• Proposal to drop Asperger’s label stirs disapproval

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 437
  From the [Toronto] Globe & Mail:Canadian parents of children with Asperger’s syndrome are resisting a proposal by scientists to remove the Asperger’s label from psychiatry’s diagnostic manual. The parents say such an action would cause confusion and potentially impede treatment for people with the disorder. ...
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• Away With the Aspergers Diagnosis: Whats It All About?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  There are going to be some changes made, according to news stories on the reports of the groups working on the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. One change thats been attracting a lot of attention is the move toward eliminating Aspergers syndrome as a ...
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• Recommended Reading for November 4

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  Disability and Loss If you are born differently abled, the state of your body is absolutely normal to you but if you come to this identity after being fully abled, it is a loss. I think that it is important to acknowledge this for exactly what it is. I have had doctors tell me that this is not healthy or normal. ...
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• Stimulus Characteristics Affect Humor Processing in Individuals with Asperger Syndrome

  
  COMD News — Authority: 451
  Abstract The present paper aims to investigate whether individuals with Asperger syndrome (AS) show global humor processing deficits or whether humor comprehension and appreciation depends on stimulus characteristics. Non-verbal visual puns, semantic and Theory of Mind cartoons were rated on comprehension, funniness ...
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• Recommended Reading for November 3

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  If you have a child with Asperger’s When I was a little girl, nobody knew the word Asperger’s. My way of being was called “weird,” “strange,” “slow” and other equally nice things. Today, we are finally getting to understand that not everybody is neurotypical, that the variety of human difference is ...
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• Bipolar Disorder Increases 4,000 Percent In Children And Adolescents

  
  BASIL & SPICE--Mind And Body! — Authority: 125
  By Lynette Fleming What do you think would happen if childhood leukemia increased by more than 4,000 percent in children and adolescents over an eight-year period?  I imagine medical experts everywhere would be scrambling to find out why.  Yet diagnoses of bipolar disorder did just that in a recent eight-year ...
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• A Powerful Identity, a Vanishing Diagnosis

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  PERCEPTIONS The drawings of Daniel Tammet, above, who wrote the 2007 book “Born on a Blue Day,” about living with autism, show how he visualizes some numbers.
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• Recommended Reading for October 30

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  #Antidev: Some thoughts on disability “devotees” The issue of disability devotees — and let’s call a spade a spade here: they’re fetishists — divides the disability community at every level, from academia to, well, Facebook. It’s something women with visible disabilities encounter regularly. And I ...
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• Bummed Out

  
  The Rambling Taoist — Authority: 141
  Heres a major difference between a neurotypical person and someone like me with Aspergers. Late this afternoon I learned that the South Bend Food Mart will be shutdown no later than November 30. It seems that a malfunctioning gas tank below ground has been leaking and the state is ordering that it be fixed or ...
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• The Diagnosis Of Autism Spectrum Disorders

  
  More Than Coping — Authority: 429
  Due to the amount of  information I am linking to the balance of the information NIMH has provided.  You can follow each link and read at your convenience.  There are three links and they are…. 1)    TREATMENT OPTIONS 2)  Adults With An Autism Spectrum Disorder 3)  Research Into Causes And ...
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• Autism Spectrum Disorders (Pervasive Developmental Disorders)

  
  More Than Coping — Authority: 429
  This is a difficult topic because it deals with children.  Sadly, mental illness does not discriminate and our children very well may be among those who have been afflicted.  This article is going to address Autism which is also referred to as: Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), Pervasive developmental disorder ...
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