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09 Feb 2007, 6:45 pm

CBS is doing a story about autistic people who go skiing tonight!

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09 Feb 2007, 6:48 pm

For real ?? Or are you putting us on ???

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09 Feb 2007, 6:50 pm

I can't watch CBS, but I LOVE skiing ! :wink:

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09 Feb 2007, 7:19 pm

I'll bet that some of us can even brush our own teeth. good greif.

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09 Feb 2007, 7:20 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

For real ?? Or are you putting us on ???

unfortunately i am for real. I won't be watching but Katie Couric suggested it. I only knew her sister, however.

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09 Feb 2007, 7:27 pm

I'm watching "The Grudge" on TNT in about 30 minutes.

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09 Feb 2007, 7:41 pm

i don't get tv unfortunately

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09 Feb 2007, 7:48 pm

I don't even have a television, but would hope that my sisters would watch it and be able to understand why I claim to have autism.

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09 Feb 2007, 7:51 pm

polyrhythmia wrote:

I don't even have a television, but would hope that my sisters would watch it and be able to understand why I claim to have autism.

oh they probably won't. One of the CBS producers said the guy can't even talk so I expect they're highlighting the lesser common (but more visual!!) extremely low functioning individuals.

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09 Feb 2007, 8:35 pm

Yeah, put the unusual one on display and gawk. Taking the high road again, CBS?

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09 Feb 2007, 8:36 pm

i forgot that couric moved to cbs.

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11 Feb 2007, 12:14 am

So wot happened ?? Did they ski like Autistics ! !!???

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13 Feb 2007, 2:15 pm

Sounds like a load of nonsense..

I ski.. and i ski live everybody else..

What, do they expect us to ski backwards or something? :roll:

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14 Feb 2007, 4:03 pm

alex wrote:

CBS is doing a story about autistic people who go skiing tonight!

I love to ski, when do I get my 15 minutes? :roll:

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15 Feb 2007, 10:55 am

I just happened to come across this and thought it was most interesting.Actually, I recall once on CBS more specifically... There was an episode on 60mins concerning a story about people with Williams Syndrome a variant of Autism which, may I point out showed similarities to those with AS but, on the same not revealed the difficulties we all face referring to the entire Autistic community.

Not much more to say so, have a nice day everyone.

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