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 Topic: Michael Savage says that "autism is a fraud" |
MissPickwickian
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 Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:35 am Subject: Michael Savage says that "autism is a fraud" |
So he hashes on autistics for acting like girls.
Some autistics are ACTUALLY GIRLS!
*slaps forehead*
A note: I think that anyone who is constantly characterizing his fellow men as weak and wi ... |
| Topic: Sylvia Plath |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 20
Views: 372
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:09 pm Subject: Sylvia Plath |
Great. Now I feel bad for saying that. I don't know anyone affected by thalidomide. I've seen pictures of them, though, and I feel bad for them.
Oh, don't. Sylvia Plath can use whatever metaphors s ... |
| Topic: Sylvia Plath |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 20
Views: 372
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:42 pm Subject: Sylvia Plath |
| You might want to know that Thalidomide (tha-lid-o-mide) was first marketed in Europe in the late 1950's. It was used as a sleeping pill and to treat morning sickness during pregnancy. At that time no ... |
| Topic: Sylvia Plath |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 20
Views: 372
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:15 pm Subject: Sylvia Plath |
So I guess 15 would be too late to read The Catcher in the Rye? If it isn't, I'll try to read it.
Dude, that was just my teacher's opinion. Go for it. |
| Topic: Sylvia Plath |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 20
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:06 pm Subject: Sylvia Plath |
| I loved Bell Jar and her poetry when I was young. Now it doesn't makes so much sense to me (but I still feel the strong movements of her prose when I listen an audiobook driving to work). Maybe it hav ... |
| Topic: Sylvia Plath |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 20
Views: 372
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:45 pm Subject: Sylvia Plath |
Do you think it was a bad on Plath's part to reference the Holocaust?
Naw. In the fifties, that wasn't a cliche yet. Most of Plath's Our-Ever-Cheerful-Sylvia-Is-Obsessed-With-Death-Camps series of ... |
| Topic: Which of the Big Five personality traits best represents you |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 4
Views: 150
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:57 pm Subject: Which of the Big Five personality traits best represents you |
* 41/100 You scored 72% on Openness, higher than 41% of your peers.
* 37/100 You scored 43% on Conscientiousness, higher than 37% of your peers.
* 34/100 You scored 60% on Extraversion, high ... |
| Topic: Sylvia Plath |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 20
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:49 pm Subject: Sylvia Plath |
| 'Lady Lazarus' and 'Daddy' are almost the same poem: same patriarchal angst, same Holocaust metaphors, same 'I'm a survivor!' statements. The only substantial differences lie in the meter and the qual ... |
| Topic: On Thimerosal, from book "Evidence of Harm" |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 3
Views: 105
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:45 pm Subject: On Thimerosal, from book "Evidence of Harm" |
| Thimerosol was removed from vaccines in 2000. |
| Topic: Thimerosol: It happened, but it's over. |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 12
Views: 372
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:35 am Subject: Thimerosol: It happened, but it's over. |
Polio causes autism.  |
| Topic: I *heart* vaccines: a deviant thread |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 49
Views: 903
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:54 pm Subject: I *heart* vaccines: a deviant thread |
Easier, maybe, as fun? No.
Yeah, don't you remember your days as a young lad, frolicking in the fields as you directed the measles-infested nine-year-olds to the gas chambers? Wasn't that a gay old ... |
| Topic: Thimerosol: It happened, but it's over. |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 12
Views: 372
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:46 pm Subject: Thimerosol: It happened, but it's over. |
I keep seeing T-shirts about the evils of mercury in vaccines. They say things like "ban mercury now!" and "green our vaccines!"
I'm not one to believe that thimerosol caused (note the past tense) ... |
| Topic: What words best describe your sense of humor? |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 7
Views: 141
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:46 pm Subject: What words best describe your sense of humor? |
| This is a question I wanted to ask people because I was bored. |
| Topic: What will this decade be called? |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 28
Views: 342
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Forum: Random Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:05 pm Subject: What will this decade be called? |
"Wow--that sucked!"
As in, "I had a really cool girlfriend through most of Wow--that sucked! but she left me for a Bolivian biker in '09" or, "There was a gigantic hurricane in the mid-Wow-- that s ... |
| Topic: I *heart* vaccines: a deviant thread |
MissPickwickian
Replies: 49
Views: 903
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:07 pm Subject: I *heart* vaccines: a deviant thread |
That's why we have the MMR. Measles, mumps, and rubella are unpleasant but passing afflictions to a child or teenager, but pass them on to a pregnant woman or a newborn and they kill and maim with s ... |
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