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 Topic: Another one leaving the nest soon :-( |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 7
Views: 957
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 Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:22 am Subject: Another one leaving the nest soon :-( |
OK-- Smart ass comment time.
When they're all "gone" (they're never really gone-- my dad died two years ago and I'm still crying like a lost toddler looking for her Daddy), you are going to be...
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| Topic: Need to vent.... how to handle rejection/loneliness??? |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 7
Views: 630
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:23 pm Subject: Need to vent.... how to handle rejection/loneliness??? |
Well, I don't know a whole lot to say. If any of y'all are within 250 miles of Pittsburgh, maybe you could speak up and we could set something up.
I'd like my kids to have more chances to interact ... |
| Topic: Romney releases tax returns |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 56
Views: 3408
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:10 pm Subject: Romney releases tax returns |
Who gives a crap?? I read the article, or one similar to it.
Neither one of them would recognize the way their consituencies live if it bit them on the butt (and, oh, I hope it does).
Each one ... |
| Topic: So the economy is failing. |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 66
Views: 5091
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:00 pm Subject: So the economy is failing. |
I'd like to see some of that permaculture stuff. Links, maybe??
I care whether our economy is failing. Sarcasm.
It deserves to fail. It's a shitty economy based on greed, decadence, and explo ... |
| Topic: Experimental Drug Improves symptoms of Autism |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 19
Views: 2217
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:07 pm Subject: Experimental Drug Improves symptoms of Autism |
Well, unless the side effects are horriffic, it can't be any worse than the current "remedies" of bullying and belittling people into silence or drugging them into vapid compliance.
Just saying.
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| Topic: "Crisis Card" |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 8
Views: 579
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:42 pm Subject: "Crisis Card" |
| Does anyone have any experience with that actually working? I'd love to carry one of those if it would actually help rather than panic people more. |
| Topic: Is my fear for Medication justified? |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 14
Views: 1161
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:38 pm Subject: Is my fear for Medication justified? |
| Well, my experience has been that a low dose of risperdal did nothing but make me hurt, a high dose of risperdal almost killed me (and dying would have been a mercy at that point), and 20 milligrams o ... |
| Topic: Risperdal Trials |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 0
Views: 300
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:22 pm Subject: Risperdal Trials |
| It's not real informative, but it's short and you won't have to wade through all the chemistry terminology that's got my brain spinning after I decided to pursue a brain storm about X-linked recessive ... |
| Topic: Parents on the spectrum |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 173
Views: 52605
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 8:47 am Subject: Parents on the spectrum |
| Kindle and a notebook. Sit off to the side, read, take notes, and if interrupted, frown briefly, listen politely, answer questions with yes or no (or the some short response-- short, as in few words- ... |
| Topic: 2 years 2 months daughter |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 25
Views: 1737
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 8:17 am Subject: 2 years 2 months daughter |
So much cloudiness, gray areas, so many misconceptions...
It is enough to make anyone want to scream inarticulately and bang their head against a wall (ha-ha-ha, because it's my favorite unacceptab ... |
| Topic: 2 years 2 months daughter |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 25
Views: 1737
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:44 am Subject: 2 years 2 months daughter |
If she's autistic, it's quite mild.
My 5-year-old had many of the same symptoms at her age. With no intervention at all other than what I've provided, he's doing reasonably well for a five year ol ... |
| Topic: I am so depressed and terrified for my young adult daughter |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 15
Views: 1653
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:17 am Subject: I am so depressed and terrified for my young adult daughter |
| Owch. It is so hard to watch the little birdies try to fly, fail, fall, try to fly, fail, fall-- wash rinse repeat, in a flurry of flying feathers. Honestly I don't know how my father survived my 20 ... |
| Topic: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 42
Views: 5160
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 1:06 pm Subject: Coin a word for discrimination of people on the spectrum! |
| I like "self-righteous, officious, narrow-minded shithead distinctly lacking in empathy." But that's quite a mouthful to have to utter many times in the course ofne discussion. Aside from carrying t ... |
| Topic: Found some disgusting views on a baptist church forum |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 23
Views: 12330
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:58 am Subject: Found some disgusting views on a baptist church forum |
Yeah, LBC is a parody. I met them back when I was trying hard to be a good little Pagan. It's funny, in a sick sad gallows humor kind of way.
Sick sad and gallows because there are plenty of real ... |
| Topic: What if we're just retarded? |
BuyerBeware
Replies: 121
Views: 11619
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:33 am Subject: What if we're just retarded? |
| No, we're brilliant. Revered in some cultures, and rightly so, I reckon. Just because the decadent Western mainstream sometimes thinks we're inferior doesn't mean you have to go along with it. What ... |
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