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• I Am Not Lying About the Autism

  Published: July 26, 2007, 1:02 am

  Tags: Kids, Divorce, Denial, Autistic Spectrum, Children, Acceptance, Separation, Communication, Autism

  son is on the autistic spectrum (PDD-NOS), and one challenge he faces is self-regulation. This means that he occasionally does not deal well with change and may cry as a result of the stress he experiences. This evening, my ex was contending that it was unusual for these melt-downs to occur. How would he know? I spend most of my day at

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• Comic Review: Spectrum #2

  Published: July 24, 2007, 10:25 pm

  Tags: Comics, Reviews, Alterna Comics, Comic Review, Independent Comics, Peter Simeti, Spectrum

  In Issue #2, Peter Simeti returns with his one-man created comic, picking up the story of Glass and The Sponsor, as one tries to protect life and one tries to destroy it.

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• I Wish My Ex Would Accept My Son's Play Needs

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:43 am

  Tags: Stimulating, Facilited Play, Autistic Spectrum, Play Needs, Acceptance, Autism

  On many occasions I will attempt to talk about my oldest son's autism with my ex. I usually bring up the subject when my ex is not interacting appropriately with my son. One example was my husband's attempt to fly my son around as Superman and lightly bang my son's head into a wall. My son liked his head hitting the wall so much that he walked

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• Mississippi Establishes Division of Autism Spectrum Disorders

  Published: July 26, 2007, 4:56 am

  Tags: Mississippi, Cold Harbor Spring Laboratory, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Andrew Wakefield

  has established an Autism Spectrum Disorders division of its Mental Health department. This sounds mundane beside the dramatic developments mentioned above but it seems to show a real commitment by the State of Mississippi to address the autism health crisis in that state. Such a demonstration of commitment should not go without

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• Word play

  Published: July 30, 2007, 9:06 pm

  Tags: Spelling, Ocd, Meltdowns, Death, Spectrum, Fixations, Triggers

  Because autism is a spectrum disorder, I often forget that whilst they have little in common, there are residual similarities that can flare up without warning.My youngest son has an obsession with death, dying and the fragility of human life. As a result of this, we are careful to avoid the subject. It's not that we are not happy to

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• Concept: "On" is a Huge, Wall-Mounted Spectrum Analyzer

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:32 pm

  Tags: Concept, Prototype, Spectrum

  wall-mounted electronic spectrum analyzer that displays sound from ambient noise. It looks to be made up of an array of red LEDs set up in a pattern of 8 to 32 bands. The entire device runs on batteries for 4 hours, or AC power, and is turned on by a switch behind the plate glass face. $8200 for 8-bands. I don't even want to know how much

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• Sprint bows out of wireless spectrum joint venture

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:08 am

  Tags: Cable, Communications, Fcc, Joint Venture, Jointventure, Pivot, Spectrum, Spectrumco, Spectrumco

  continuing as it opts out of SpectrumCo, one of two joint ventures with cable operators Comcast, Time Warner Cable (parent company of AOL, which owns Engadget), Cox Communications, and Brighthouse (Advance/Newhouse). Reportedly, the firm is still remaining a part of the Sprint/Cable venture (now known as Pivot) as it focuses on "integrating

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• Google 'still very interested' in 700MHz spectrum auction

  Published: August 3, 2007, 1:11 pm

  Tags: 700mhz, 700mhz Spectrum, 700mhzspectrum, Business, Fcc, Google, Spectrum, Spectrum Auction, Spectrumauction

  in bidding for the 700MHz spectrum after the rules neglected to afford the winner wholesaling rights, Chris Sacca has intervened to clear things up. According to the search giant's head of special initiatives, the firm is "still very interested in the auction" despite not getting all of the rules for the spectrum sale set in its favor. Of

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• Microsoft to dispute FCC findings on 'white space' device

  Published: August 13, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: 700mhz, 700mhz Spectrum, 700mhzspectrum, Fcc, Google, Intel, Microsoft, White Space, White Space Coalition, Whitespace, Whitespacecoalition

  soon-to-be-abandoned 700MHz spectrum is "safe" for wireless internet services, Microsoft (along with White Space Coalition cohorts such as Google and Intel) is claiming that the technology is sound and can work side by side with its broadcast television neighbors -- and they have proof. As you'll recall, the first round of tests apparently

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• I hadn't thought of it that way

  Published: August 13, 2007, 9:03 pm

  Tags: Metaphor, Cause, Environment, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Bad Hair Days, Children, Environment, Genetics, Hair, Health, Media, Neurology, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Science

  “‘Striking good hair days and bad hair days’”: That is how Harvard neuroscientist and Massachusetts General Hospital neurologist Martha Herbert suggests that certain environmental factors might “influence an autistic child’s health and mental state” in today’s Boston Globe. Herbert and a number of

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• Travels with Charlie

  Published: August 16, 2007, 1:14 am

  Tags: Literature, New Jersey, Metaphor, Water, Parenting, Classics, Weblogs, Books, America, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Children, Health, John Steinbeck, Literature, Mythology, Odysseus, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Travel

  Travels with Charlie is a title I would much like to use for the book I’m writing (very slowly) about Charlie, autism, and education. As Jim has pointed out to me, that title—-with “Charlie” spelled the other way, “Charley”—has already been taken, by the great California writer John Steinbeck for his

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• Catching the Zzzzzzzzzz's

  Published: August 16, 2007, 1:19 pm

  Tags: Health, Psychology, Science, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Children, Empathy, Health, Imitation, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Science, Sleep, Yawn

  Does reading about the study by scientists about contagious yawning make you want to yawn or even to flat-out start yawning? Not because you are bored reading about yet another research study into the connections between empathy and autism, but because the mere mention of yawning, and “contagious yawning” at that, makes you feel tired

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• He Looks So Smart

  Published: August 16, 2007, 3:15 pm

  Tags: Water, Charlisms, China, Language, Stereotypes, Classics, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Beach, Children, Health, Intelligence, Ocean, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Smart

  “He looks so smart.” People say this about Charlie again and again, and variations: “He looks so intelligent in those glasses!” (Charlie used to wear Harry Potteresque prism lenses all the time.) “He seems so smart—-but does he really understand?” I know that Charlie is smart. I also know that, when it

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• Anorexia as the Female Asperger's

  Published: August 17, 2007, 7:51 am

  Tags: Anorexia, Gender, Health, Genetics, Psychology, Asperger S Syndrome, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Brain, Children, Genetics, Health, Ocd, Parenting, Pdd Nos

  from within the autism spectrum.” I am curious as to what criteria to define “a disorder from within the autism spectrum” are being looked at. And, in her article, Treasure does not specifically cite any girls or women with Asperger’s, though it seems that they ought to be included in any discussion of the

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• Arthur Miller, Daniel Miller, and Denial

  Published: August 17, 2007, 12:41 pm

  Tags: Literature, Living Arrangements, History, Arthur Miller, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Celebrities, Children, Denial, Down Syndrome, Health, Literature, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Play

  Charlie looking over at me as he sat eating watermelon and a hamburger at the table this evening, his eyes big, his face happy and all of him deeply tanned from ocean swimming and time on the beach: It’s the kind of moment that you hope you can always remember, Charlie enjoying the things he likes (and that I know he likes) and revelling in

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