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Asperger’s: My life as an Earthbound alien
One CNN manager recently learned — at 48 — that she has Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism. Today she shares an inside view of life with the condition.
I could tell you so much more, but instead let me share one last insight. Don’t pity me or try to [...]

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Susan Bruce has a useful article for parents over at Wrightslaw: Stop Playing the Victim – Become an Effective Advocate.

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How I Deal With Anger
© 2007 John Dyson
I have come to learn that we have many different feelings: sadness, happiness and anger. As a child I did not have good role models on how to deal with my feelings. I am now learning how anger is perhaps the hardest feeling to deal with. Anger can [...]

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© 1995-2006 Dale Susan Brown
dale-brown@mindspring.com
Note: This article makes no mention of my learning disabilities. It is revised from one that I wrote for my college alumni magazine in 1995. It shows a small part of disability history and is offers to readers of this website as an example of my professional life outside of “LD [...]

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Learning to Dance

© 1983-2005 Dale Susan Brown
Author’s Note
This story was first published in “Churchill Forum” in 1983 and then published in “Their World” by National Center for Learning Disabilities in 1984. It was among the fist articles that discussed the coordination problems and auditory perceptual problems of people with learning disabilities.
I was a learning disabled child who [...]

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A “D Minus”

© Roger Dean Kiser
I remember my Landon Junior High School seventh grade, math teacher’s name very well. It was Mr. Young. He stood out because the kids made fun of him. He was missing one of his fingers, and always pointed at students with his middle finger.
For some reason I was not very good [...]

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© Dale Susan Brown
I experienced job discrimination first-hand eight years ago. I had just started a self-help group for people with learning disabilities and appeared on television speaking as a person with a learning disability.
The word got back to my office. Now, as my disability is invisible, I had found my first job through [...]

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© Richard Wanderman
Between 1970 and 1980 I worked and studied in the pottery studio at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, a most unusual place filled with amazing people.
One of my teachers during that time was David Stannard. David moved to Alaska while I was still in Eugene and I heard tales about him building [...]

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I am a proud parent

© Dave
I would like to share a story about my two sons who are LD. I am not writing this story to brag (but I am very proud) I am writing it for the parents and children who feel that they cannot reach their dreams because they are LD.
When my sons were young (7 and [...]

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Reduction By Excess

© Laurie Fais, Ph.D.
lfais@psych.ubc.ca
Ever heard the folk tale about the woman who complains that she doesn’t have enough room in her house? She goes to a wise man, who tells her to move a cow into her living room. She does so, but it doesn’t seem to help. So she goes back to the wise [...]

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