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Autistic savant Daniel Tammet on his new book about the neurology of learning, in his mind and in yours.

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Paul Smith was an artist who had cerebral palsy and used a typewriter to “draw.” Using a machine like a typewriter makes perfect sense when one has spasticity in one’s hands but thinking about how these drawings were made boggles the mind. Yes, typewriters used monofonts (typefaces where each letter was equal in width) so [...]

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Sarah Smith Nessel has written a great essay for the Kansas City Star: ‘Normal” shouldn’t be the only acceptable realm.
…for many of us with less-severely affected children, the “tragedy” of Autism simply isn’t. In our current culture of pathology, children who 50 years ago would have just been considered a bit odd, or loners, now [...]

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© 2008 Richard Mellott
I started out as a kid who was always active, never fit in, and had trouble making friends my own age. I’d get beaten up because I was awkward and wore glasses, so I retreated into reading books. By the time I was 14, I had read Freud, Jung, Hesse, Heinlein, Asimov, [...]

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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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© 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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© 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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