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 Topic: Aspies & University: Do they mix? |
nominalist
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 Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:14 pm Subject: Aspies & University: Do they mix? |
| I am an aspie and a college professor (with a Ph.D. in sociology). For whatever reason, I never really had any academic difficulties (as a student). As a professor, my main problems concern human rela ... |
| Topic: Passage of Mental Health Parity (U.S.) |
nominalist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:56 am Subject: Passage of Mental Health Parity (U.S.) |
For anyone familiar with such things, do you know if the passage of this law means that people on the autism spectrum can no longer be turned down for health insurance?
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| Topic: My revised essay, Rejection and Asperger's Syndrome |
nominalist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:41 am Subject: My revised essay, Rejection and Asperger's Syndrome |
I enjoyed your essay, and I added it to my links page:
http://links.neurelitism.com
The original name for Asperger's in the DSM (the DSM-III) was schizoid disorder of childhood and adolescence. ... |
| Topic: Will Asperger survive? |
nominalist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:01 pm Subject: Will Asperger survive? |
| The last thing we need is for all of the ASD's to be compressed into one diagnosis. Already people I know hear the word "autism" and think "retarded antisocial special-ed kid" when in reality I am qui ... |
| Topic: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
nominalist
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:58 pm Subject: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
| It was a dictatorship, wherein the state had thoroughly SOCIALIZED the economy. Socialism is, after all, control of the economy by the government. You can't have it both ways and claim that when it ... |
| Topic: Will Asperger survive? |
nominalist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:38 pm Subject: Will Asperger survive? |
humanity wont survive...let alone aspergers
And I was having such a positive day, too.  |
| Topic: Will Asperger survive? |
nominalist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:50 pm Subject: Will Asperger survive? |
| A funny thing: back in the DSM-III, there was this diagnosis called Childhood-onset Autism, which isn't really any different to Asperger's now in the DSM-IV-TR. They found that this "Childhood-onset" ... |
| Topic: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
nominalist
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:44 pm Subject: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
In other words--they just adhere to NO TRUE SCOTSMAN--why do political dogmatics adore using that particular fallacy?
No, the issue was that Trotsky was using Marx's definition of socialism, not St ... |
| Topic: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
nominalist
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:16 am Subject: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
| The concept is that it's best for workers everywhere to support the most deformed socialist states when they are faced with imperialism. That among other Trotskyist ideas (transitional demands, etc.) ... |
| Topic: Will Asperger survive? |
nominalist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:21 am Subject: Will Asperger survive? |
| No one really knows what will happen, since the DSM-V task groups have not yet issued any formal reports. However, one APA committee recently recommended replacing autism, Asperger's, and PDD-NOS with ... |
| Topic: Will Asperger survive? |
nominalist
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:42 pm Subject: Will Asperger survive? |
| I can't imagine many people, especially aspie autistics, being too upset about some other term replacing "Asperger's," given what the word sounds like. |
| Topic: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
nominalist
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:35 am Subject: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
| Marcy sounds interesting, but, to me, the ideas you referred to are more partisan than substantive. From your description, Marcy appears to have been more reactive (West or anti-West) than proactive ( ... |
| Topic: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
nominalist
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:06 pm Subject: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
| I generally support Worker's World (I'm not formally supporting them), which call themselves Marx-Leninist, but are generally Trots. I don't know how much you know about us damn Marcyites, so inquire ... |
| Topic: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
nominalist
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:40 am Subject: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
What kind of "ite" are you? A Trotskyite, Schachtmanite, Marcyite, Stalactite?
I was a Trotskyite a long time ago. I became disillusioned with Trotskyism at about the same time as I learned that A ... |
| Topic: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
nominalist
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:21 pm Subject: Whats with the leftwing bent of Wrongplanet? |
Then you want handouts to everybody, including corporations, which become nothing but arms of the government. How well did that work in the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics?
"Handouts" is a con ... |
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