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		<title>Interview With First Autistic Presidential Appointee</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a very informative interview with Ari Ne’eman, an autistic 22 year old who was recently appointed by President Obama to the National Council on Disability. Some salient points: Autism Speaks raises lots of money through their walks for a cure, but only four cents on every dollar goes to services for autistic individuals and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boy With the Incredible Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First broadcast in 2005, The Boy With the Incredible Brain is a documentary about Daniel Tammet who has a fantastic ability with numbers and languages. He can learn to speak a new language in one week. He wrote a memoir called Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Brain is a Rain Forest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a great article explaining Neurodiversity with an awesome analogy which conveys that the human brain functions as an organism versus its typical comparison that it functions like a machine. The article is an excerpt of the book Neurodiversity: Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain Differences, by Thomas Armstrong, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positively Autistic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estée Klar from The Joy of Autism has posted a video (which aired in 2008 on CBC) called Positively Autistic on her site. It shows what it&#8217;s like to be Autistic but from the perspective of adult Autistics, which most people aren&#8217;t exposed to. Some wonderful quotes from clip 1: The lack of positive expectation [...]]]></description>
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