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• Whether it's Britney or Lindsay, Let's Once Again Blame Mothers

  Published: July 28, 2007, 8:33 pm

  Tags: Cause, Psychiatry, Parenting, Psychology, Stereotypes, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Britney Spears, Children, Dina Lohan, Education, Family, Lindsay Lohan, Mother Blame, Mothers, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Psychology, Sigmund Freud

  “Sometimes mothers can do no right” proclaims a July 29th New York Times article targeting Dina Lohan for the foibles, addictions, and recent arrest of her daughter, Lindsay Lohan. Mother blame? Nothing new if you’re the mother of an autistic child. Though widely discredited, the “refrigerator mother” theory of

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• Autism Limericks

  Published: August 1, 2007, 10:28 am

  Tags: Poetry, Stereotypes, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Education, Family, Health, Limerick, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Poem, Poetry

  4 autism limericks courtesy of the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form (OEDILF). Three speak of autism and “rotten,” “grisly reflection,” and “despair”; one ends with Autism’s taught us “as is”-m. I am working on my own attempt…….. Share This

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• The ND Word: Autism as Difference Not Disease

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:44 pm

  Tags: Disability Rights, Stereotypes, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Disability Studies, Diversity, Education, Family, Health, Parenting, Pdd Nos

  The August 7th Guardian has a long article about autistic persons, families with autistic children, Autscape, and the “autism rights movement.” The title gives away the perspective: It’s not a disease, it’s a way of life. Yes, neurodiversity is mentioned, a lot, and many friends and bloggers from and not from the Autism Hub

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• Clicking on the Links: Golf and Autism

  Published: August 7, 2007, 6:39 am

  Tags: Sports, Work, Stereotypes, Asd, Aspergers, Athletics, Autism, Balls, Caddy, Children, Education, Family, Golf, Health, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Sports, Tiger Woods

  “Far from Par” is the name of a 4-week summer golf program for autistic children in Bergen County, New Jersey. The August 4th Bergen Record notes that the program is the “first of its kind in the nation”: Fifteen children, ranging in age from 11 to 16, are taking part. In the first three days, they spent an hour learning

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• Women Swarm Nation's Technical Campuses [Thus Spake Zuska]

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:16 pm

  Tags: Stereotypes We Know Love

  By way of the LA Times, we learn that women are flocking in droves to Caltech this year: According to preliminary figures, 87 women are entering a freshman class of [235] students in September. That 37% share is Caltech's highest since it began admitting undergraduate women in 1970, when pioneering females comprised 14% of the entering class.

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• del.icio.us vox links 14

  Published: August 13, 2007, 7:25 pm

  Tags: Parenting, Stereotypes

  Autism conference brings nearly 1,000 to Denver As in, nearly 1,000 “victims of autism and their parents”: No victims here, just an autistic boy and his autism parents. (tags: autism, parents, children, family) No two cases of autism are alike Very true and yet, there are commonalities—there is something that links my son

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• How soon do people notice there's something different ?

  Published: August 14, 2007, 12:48 pm

  Tags: Charlisms, Water, Holidays, Stereotypes

  It does not take too long anymore for people to note that there’s “something”—-”something different”—-about Charlie. If you saw him in a grocery store last night, for instance, you would have seen a dark-haired dark-eyed boy race-walking back and forth by the check-out line, and warbling wordlesly (but

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• D. L. Hughley discusses why Studio 60 failed

  Published: August 15, 2007, 5:14 am

  Tags: D L Hughley, D L Hughley, Interview, Racial Stereotypes, Racialstereotypes, Studio 60, Studio60, White Guilt, Whiteguilt

  Filed under: Watercooler TalkThe Onion's AV Club has an interesting interview with D. L. Hughley discussing, among other things, why Studio 60 failed to live up to its potential.Hughley says that despite the pilot being some of the "most well written television" that he had ever seen, the show "became too aware" and started "taking [itself] too

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• Do gender stereotypes influence toddler preferences?

  Published: August 16, 2007, 11:01 am

  Tags: Toddler Behavior Toddler Gender Stereotypes Toddler Toy Prefer, Toddlerbehavior Toddlergenderstereotypes Toddlertoypreferences G

  Filed under: Moms, Dads, Doing it myself, 2 years, Toddler, Exploring, Likes and dislikesBefore I was a mother, I was an educator, and as a result when I had my son I was incredibly curious about how much of an impact our behavior as parents would have on his gender stereotyped preferences. I've always been a head-strong, independent woman (I can

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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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• Gawker Book Club: Nina Garcia Understands All The Races Of The World

  Published: August 30, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: Books, Gawker Book Club, Jezebel, Nina Garcia, Project Runway, Stereotypes, Wtf

  Each season on Project Runway, "Fashion Director for Elle Magazine" Nina Garcia gets bitcher and bitchier as she gets more famous. She's enough to remind us why we never worked for a fashion...

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• Arthur Miller's Secret

  Published: August 31, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Drama, Disability Rights, Family, Stereotypes, Arthur Miller, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Denial, Down Syndrome, Drama, Education, Family, Health, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Theater, Vanity Fair

  New York Times theater critic Jason Zinoman reflects on the September 2007 Vanity Fair article about Arthur Miller and his son Daniel in A New Stage for Arthur Miller's Most Private Drama of Fathers and Sons. While Zinoman notes that Daniel had been “something of an open secret for years,” he also says in the same sentence that

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• Researchers Claim Men Like Hot Women! [Thus Spake Zuska]

  Published: September 6, 2007, 4:41 pm

  Tags: Stereotypes We Know Love

  I can barely bring myself to blog on this topic, it is so tiresome. (Thanks to Sheril at The Intersection for this link.) Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks. Men like attractive women! Women look for security and financial success in men! It must be evolution! All proven from

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• Brand Autism

  Published: September 7, 2007, 2:19 am

  Tags: Money, Media, Stereotypes, Advertisements, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Brand, Business, Children, Education, Family, Health, Marketing, Media, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Technology

  No, it’s not that some entrepreneur has gotten ahold of “AUTISM,” trademarked the term, and is now going to use it as the name for a line of products. “Brand autism” is a term that iMedia Connection Editor-in-Chief Brad Berens uses in a September 7th interview with Sean Finnegan, CEO of OMG Digital. The term comes up

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• Autism Is Not Contagious

  Published: September 8, 2007, 6:16 pm

  Tags: Friendship, Health, Stereotypes, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Education, Family, Friends, Health, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Play Dates, Scooters

  Well of course, we all know that, you think……while people cannot agree on what causes autism, autism is not something a child “catches” like the common cold. You don’t “get” autism through contact with an autistic person: We know this. But sometimes one feels a bit otherwise, as Lisa Dowler writes today

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