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		<title>Autistic Thoughts on Autistic Relationships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This is my post for Disability Blog Carnival #63: Relationships. See also the companion post from my girlfriend.)
Greetings. I&#8217;m Cody, I&#8217;m autistic, I have a girlfriend, and I love her.
Yeah. I hear you saying it right now. There are autistics who actually want friendships? Autistics can actually feel love for others? Autistics can be in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aut.zone38.net/2010/02/20/autistic-thoughts-on-autistic-relationships/</link>
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		<title>Guest Post: Misinformed Autism Awareness Doesn&#8217;t Just Hurt Autistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This is my post for Disability Blog Carnival #63: Relationships. See also the companion post from codeman38.)
April is coming.
It&#8217;s only just nearing the end of February. I know that. I also know that there are many things I need to get done in my life before April Fools Day comes around again.
But still, April is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aut.zone38.net/2010/02/20/guest-post-misinformed-autism-awareness-doesnt-just-hurt-autistics/</link>
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		<title>The spaces in my résumé</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This is my post for Disability Blog Carnival 59: Disability and Work.)
I&#8217;ve never applied for a job in the traditional manner.
Sure, I&#8217;ve done some work for my father&#8217;s office, and I&#8217;ve done some freelance work for organizations owned by his friends and associates. But this has all been through connections, through friends, family, and friends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aut.zone38.net/2009/10/25/the-spaces-in-my-resume/</link>
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		<title>Autism Speaks Hits A New Low</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been reading my blog, you probably know my stance toward Autism Speaks by now. It&#8217;s an organization I&#8217;ve always had my share of issues with; see my past posts on the subject for some idea of why.
But this time, they&#8217;ve really outdone themselves.
Before I explain what they&#8217;ve done to make me say that, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aut.zone38.net/2009/09/23/autism-speaks-hits-a-new-low/</link>
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		<title>Assumptions, Assumptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s Blogging Against Disablism Day once again. I&#8217;d been thinking for the past couple days about what precisely I want to blog about today&#8230; and then it hit me yesterday.
Assumptions.
People tend to make assumptions of a person&#8217;s abilities and general nature based on that person&#8217;s appearance. But sometimes these assumptions turn out to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aut.zone38.net/2009/05/01/assumptions-assumptions/</link>
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		<title>Noodly executive functioning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, at my Aspie support group meeting last week, I finally learned how to cook spaghetti on my own. It was actually a lot simpler than I thought it&#8217;d be, and there was very little room for me to accidentally scald myself (something that has happened before in other attempts at cooking).
And I was ready [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aut.zone38.net/2009/04/12/noodly-executive-functioning/</link>
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		<title>A bit late, but still a worthy link&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a day late with this, but I just can&#8217;t go without linking Cara from The Curvature&#8217;s post &#8220;Things That Pain Me&#8220;. It&#8217;s about Yoko Ono&#8217;s partnership with Autism Speaks, and it links to my own post about said organization.
I&#8217;m glad to see that those of us on the autism spectrum aren&#8217;t the only ones [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aut.zone38.net/2009/04/07/a-bit-late-but-still-a-worthy-link/</link>
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		<title>Mr. Handley, we&#8217;re standing right here&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was planning on posting about the ridiculously frustrating Larry King interview from last night with Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and J. B. Handley, but Joseph at Autism: Natural Variation beat me to it. So I&#8217;ll just let you read his post instead. It&#8217;s well worth it.
I will, however, comment on one particular line of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aut.zone38.net/2009/04/04/mr-handley-were-standing-right-here/</link>
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		<title>A glimmer of hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So today was the second ever World Autism Awareness Day. And I expected it to be one of those days that was frustrating but that I just had to bear, with all sorts of media coverage of the plight of parents of autistic kids and all sorts of distortions and incomplete truths about what autism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://aut.zone38.net/2009/04/02/a-glimmer-of-hope/</link>
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		<title>Yet another April&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;which means it&#8217;s once again time for me to blog more often than the occasional post that I usually make.
And it&#8217;s not just because I just turned in my comprehensive exams for grad school, though that has a bit to do with it as well, given how swamped I&#8217;ve been feeling lately.
No, it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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