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Check your freezers! Ground beef recall.

You can still help the fight for marriage equality in Maine. If you are a Maine resident, you need to vote. In fact, if there is a local election in your area today, please be sure to vote. These elections tend to have very low turn-out and its how extremists get weird referendums passed and anti-science people onto school boards. It's always good to vote.

What makes an American? Or, let's watch people be anti-immigrant racists about the guy who just won the New York City Marathon.

There's been another arrest in the Richmond gang rape.

Amazing environmentally friendly alternative to a converted van for those who use wheelchairs. Of course, it just seems to be in Europe right now, and the top speed is relatively low (so no going on a highway with this!) but it looks great for getting around a city.

Asperger's as a vanishing diagnosis.

This guy was almost Han Solo. Works for me. Check the smile.

Who you share a hotel with can be why cons are often unexpectedly funny.

Look, I saw this on 5251962's journal, and now you need to know too, just because: Bats have oral sex.

DAVID TENNANT, YOU LEFT DOCTOR WHO FOR THIS!?!?1?!!?!?!??

The things I learn on Twitter: there are lesbians on the 90210 retread.

hughcasey has an alert for the dino-obsessed!

Missing Sky Harbor baggage found.

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[meirion.livejournal.com]

But if people are told they should be evaluated for autism, he went on, “they will say: ‘No, no, no. I can talk. I have a friend. What a ridiculous suggestion!’ So we will miss the opportunity to assess people.”

Unfortunately, I have been at the receiving end of the opposite of this. I asked a shrink who assumed I was just depressed to try to evaluate me for an autism-spectrum disorder (yes, Asperger's, as it happens) only to be told "you have friends, you are part of a community, obviously you don't have an autism-spectrum disorder". I tried to get him to come and visit said community which is entirely full of people with an autism-spectrum disorder, and which (largely because of that) has been billed the most unfriendly church in Cambridge, but did he?

Instead we are working, through our Social Responsibility Group, to make more contacts with the autistic community in Cambridge (which is quite large, and increasing).

I hope this will work. I don't know what else I can do, as someone who in person isn't obviously autistic unless life has gone so horribly wrong that I can't stop myself from avoiding eye-contact and rocking (which happened most recently when a friend killed himself at the end of September).

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Five years ago, I mentioned to my shrink that I thought I might have Aspergers, and he said "No, of course not, if you had Aspergers you'd be in an institution!" A couple of months ago I was diagnosed with Aspergers, and he was STUNNED.

Shopping for a new shrink now obviously!