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Books about autism
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At least ten books by women about autism
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder
When life gets too much for them, they might have a meltdown, which they don't do on purpose, can't control and feel terrible about afterwards... Autistic people may have a very advanced vocabulary, but then they get little words all mixed up or misunderstand what people say.
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Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate
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Cynthia Kim
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...there is an element of serendipity to special interests that makes the experience of finding a new passion much like falling in love. Special interests tend to find us, rather than the other way around. I have no idea what has drawn me to many of my special interests over the years. Most are things that I have an intense but inexplicable fascination with.
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Navigating Autism
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Temple Grandin
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You wouldn't want to live in a house without consistent, appropriate levels of electrical connection. Your world would feel undependable, unpredictable, and unsafe. This is how it can feel for a person with autism.
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Sex, Sexuality and the Autism Spectrum
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Wendy Lawson
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Difficulties with fantasy and theatrically based imagination could mean that for some individuals with ASD maintaining 'romance' 'motivation' and 'spontaneity' in their relationships will need effort. They might not even notice when it is missing or why it should be useful in the first place. Some individuals with ASD have said that they are visual thinkers and have strong visual imaginations. I believe for many of us this will mean the need to stay focused upon 'reality' based imagined images of 'Other' and possible obsessions with a person, personage and/or aspects of a person. The fact that so many NT people use fetishes, photographs, films, the Internet etc. etc. to flog their imaginations and promote sexual arousal seems to argue against NT imagination being so much more adequate in this specific area...
As one typical site puts it: 'The internet was... created by men (for other men), and it is only by our divine manly grace that women are permitted to use it.' Tell that to Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper.
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Jesus and John Wayne
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Kristin Kobes Du Mez
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A 2009 survey also revealed that evangelicals were significantly more likely than other religious groups to approve of the use of torture against suspected terrorists. Sixty-two percent agreed that torture could be justified "often" or "sometimes," compared to 46 percent of mainline Protestants and 40 percent of unaffiliated respondents.
The chief reason we have free speech in democracy is to facilitate public discourse about policy on the part of citizens and their representatives. But the kind of debate where one shrieks insults at another, not to mention engages in physical violence and then denounces protest as an attack on speech, is not the relevant kind of public discourse that free speech rights are meant to protect.
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They Want to Kill Americans
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Malcolm Nance
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All service members have an obligation to obey the orders of the commander in chief. However, that obligation is strictly limited to lawful orders. Members must openly defy a president who breaks the law.