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 Topic: Offer from Autism Speaks, please give your opinion |
Pepperfire
Replies: 196
Views: 7260
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 Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:20 pm Subject: Offer from Autism Speaks, please give your opinion |
Pepperfire, you can insult me, call me names, belittle me, accuse me of trolling, whatever you want to do. It is but a reflection of yourself, nothing more.
To others, this is a good thread on an ... |
| Topic: Post a random truth (about yourself) |
Pepperfire
Replies: 9789
Views: 108232
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Forum: Random Discussion Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:15 pm Subject: Post a random truth (about yourself) |
I just got the impression that Cockney Rebel made a pass at Firebird.  |
| Topic: A conversation on facebook |
Pepperfire
Replies: 31
Views: 1149
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:50 pm Subject: A conversation on facebook |
only with the boy
lol.
He has no concept. Don't take it personally. |
| Topic: Offer from Autism Speaks, please give your opinion |
Pepperfire
Replies: 196
Views: 7260
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:46 pm Subject: Offer from Autism Speaks, please give your opinion |
Pepperfire, you can insult me, call me names, belittle me, accuse me of trolling, whatever you want to do. It is but a reflection of yourself, nothing more.
To others, this is a good thread on an ... |
| Topic: Offer from Autism Speaks, please give your opinion |
Pepperfire
Replies: 196
Views: 7260
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:31 pm Subject: Offer from Autism Speaks, please give your opinion |
| NicholasGray, as you weigh in on opposing views as to whether or not you want to align yourself with Autism Speaks I think you should read/learn/educate yourself on who is propagating the whole idea ... |
| Topic: Offer from Autism Speaks, please give your opinion |
Pepperfire
Replies: 196
Views: 7260
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:11 pm Subject: Offer from Autism Speaks, please give your opinion |
And this, without being driven off the edge of a cliff because some of us have parents who can't find a way to communicate with us.
I hope I am not and will never be viewed as that sort of pare ... |
| Topic: Peculiarly picky eaters? |
Pepperfire
Replies: 17
Views: 597
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:07 pm Subject: Re: How to present new foods? |
As a mom of a 10 yo aspie with a VERY limited self restricted diet, I feel like I am constantly nagging him to try something new, although I never force him.
Suggestions? Tips?
Thanks!
I ... |
| Topic: Post a random truth (about yourself) |
Pepperfire
Replies: 9789
Views: 108232
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Forum: Random Discussion Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:03 pm Subject: Post a random truth (about yourself) |
| I find it excessively annoying that people can't tell the difference between the word "treatment" and "cure". |
| Topic: Why anti-Cure people get radical |
Pepperfire
Replies: 33
Views: 1530
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:01 pm Subject: Why anti-Cure people get radical |
| But it makes sense - AS isn't as good an experience for some people as it is for others. If someone feels their life is being destroyed by AS, they have all rights to change themselves if it's possib ... |
| Topic: Jenna McCarthy was on CNN last night. |
Pepperfire
Replies: 115
Views: 3018
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:55 pm Subject: Jenna McCarthy was on CNN last night. |
| Oh sure,what I was saying was that I can't stand the those who are intorerlant because of someones race,religion,ethnic background,gender,sexual preference and now whether or not some has autism or as ... |
| Topic: Autims and cures...another distrubing thing on autism speaks |
Pepperfire
Replies: 45
Views: 2172
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:21 pm Subject: Autims and cures...another distrubing thing on autism speaks |
| My main wish is that people would stop generalizing and stop making decisions for other people based on uninformed assumptions about what those people might want. There is great diversity within the ... |
| Topic: Offer from Autism Speaks, please give your opinion |
Pepperfire
Replies: 196
Views: 7260
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:14 pm Subject: Offer from Autism Speaks, please give your opinion |
Ouinon, I appreciate your passion, but it is unrealistic to expect society to turn on it's heals because a minority percentage doesn't like the way things have evolved.
And to ask whose fault it is ... |
| Topic: Hatred Towards NTs |
Pepperfire
Replies: 59
Views: 2757
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:02 pm Subject: Hatred Towards NTs |
When I was a teenager, if I'd known what an NT was, I would have despised them... But then, I despised all children then... still not crazy about them today.
Today, it's difficult to hate someone j ... |
| Topic: A conversation on facebook |
Pepperfire
Replies: 31
Views: 1149
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:59 pm Subject: A conversation on facebook |
It would appear that he dismisses my autism as minor or denies that it exists at all
It would.
You're banging your head against a brick wall. |
| Topic: Looking for suggestions for book titled Asperger's Disorder |
Pepperfire
Replies: 37
Views: 918
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:07 pm Subject: Looking for suggestions for book titled Asperger's Disorder |
On the topic of empathy... If it makes sense, then I feel it and I can be very pained by someone else's situation.
If I'm supposed to be all choked up and ball my eyes out because Princess Di died. ... |
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