Random Thoughts
- No More "Yeah, But": A Failure to be Accountable
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I hear "yeah, but" all day long. I hear it from students at school. I hear it from my children. I read it and see it all over the internet; from autism-land to politics, we have become a nation of YeahButs. And it's enough. "Yeah, but&q ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Apr 1 2012 - 2:05pm
- Autism Awareness Month: As Many Perspectives on it as There are People in the Community
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The Autism Blogs Directory has approximately 1,000 blogs, websites, and forums representing autistic bloggers, family members, professionals, and other disability-related bloggers. It's grown so large that as blogs move up on the feed with new post ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Apr 1 2012 - 12:16pm
- World Autism Awareness Day 2012
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Autism Speaks wants us to go blue. I sit here in my 2011 WAAD tee, all in blue, from hair to shoes. I am blue. Blue to celebrate today. Celebrate seems a weird word, doesn't it--what are we celebrating? That the UN declared April 2 World Autism Awaren ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Apr 2 2012 - 3:00pm
- Off to Oslo
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Today I am leaving to Norway, for a visit of few days. If you happen to have suggestions for things to see and do there, please drop me a line in the comments thread below; I will be traveling with my son Filippo (13 yo) and daughter Ilaria (9), so avoid a ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 3 2012 - 5:21am
- Eileen Riley-Hall’s Parenting Girls On The Autism Spectrum
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As almost every parent of an autistic child knows, there is no shortage of books out there on autism, but true gems are rare. Eileen Riley-Hall’s new book Parenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum is just that, though, a true gem and a must-have book for a ...
Article - Kim Wombles - Apr 10 2012 - 7:09am
- A Stroll in the park with Bente
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As I had announced in my blog, I spent four days in Oslo before Easter, visiting museums with my kids and my fiancee, and enjoying the place-new to all of us. ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 8 2012 - 3:20pm
- Wild Goose Chases at Six in the Morning
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To take a statement with 'a grain of salt' or 'a pinch of salt' means to accept it but to maintain a degree of skepticism about its truth.-- The Phrase Finder We use idioms with little thought. We know what they mean, even if the sayin ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Apr 13 2012 - 7:04am
- Between Physicists
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Between physicists- there's an Easter bunny! Last Friday I went to Oslo, you know, the capital of Norway and home of the Vikings, to meet experimental physicist Tommaso Dorigo. Tommaso, who writes A Quantum Diaries Survivor here on Science 2.0 had a ...
Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - Apr 13 2012 - 1:40pm
- Stimming isn't About the Parent
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"These behaviors can be irritating for family members."-- on stimming in autistic children My children stim. I stim--come on, for Pete's sake--every one of us--autistic or not-- STIMS. We all engage in self-regulatory behaviors to calm our ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Apr 17 2012 - 2:45pm
- What Took So Long? 200 Activists Launch Themselves Off Mt. Kilimanjaro
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Don't get too excited but 200 activists are going to jump off Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. These aren't the usual pesky environmentalists, these are hang-gliding global activists, which really sounds like just an excuse to go hang-gliding but g ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2012 - 9:43am
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