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		<title>More Jaylen Arnold!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Campaign Watch, Irked Videos, Interviews, Auties &#38; Aspies, QuIrked Kids

 


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Sue Scheff recently interviewed the great Jaylen Arnold for examiner.com.  Their conversation was so engaging (and so important) that we are reprinting it here in its entirety.
Enjoy!
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Why and when did you create www.JaylensChallenge.org ?
My website was created in May of this year. I created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Very Important (and Special!) Public Service Announcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Regular Contributors, Lewis Schofield, Themes, Auties &#38; Aspies, Irked Videos
Quoting Elyse Bruce:

Recently, the news carried an item about Canadian Blood Services.  In light of the H1N1 flu and vaccines, blood donors have been shying away from donating blood.  Blood donations are important all year round however they are even more important at this time of year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You must watch this!</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/10119/you-must-watch-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Regular Contributors, Lewis Schofield, Themes, Auties &#38; Aspies, Irked Videos

Here&#8217;s an AWESOME YouTube video—a Trent University-produced &#8220;vignette&#8221; starring the multiple-award-winning Mr. Lewis &#8220;Codeboy&#8221; Schofield:

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5 marvelous Lewis posts you might not know about:
Some Thoughts On Epidemics
Living with Asperger’s Syndrome
Wisecrackin’ with Lewis Schofield (plus bonus Aspling Central Update!)
How old are you?
 Banished to This Place
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		<title>&#8220;Butterflies&#8221;: A beautiful poem (and painting!) by Donna Williams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Regular Contributors, Donna Williams, Themes, Auties &#38; Aspies

By now, you all know Donna Williams. Here&#8217;s a poem called &#8220;Butterflies&#8221; that Donna wrote recently.
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if someone takes your disabilities and makes them your
gilded cage
then you take charge of your disabilities like never before
for they are your fallibility, the keys to your cage
a key you allowed someone else to call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Don&#8217;t play me, pay me!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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A provocative new campaign&#8230;after the jump

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The mother of the first actress with Asperger&#8217;s syndrome to play a fictional character with the condition has launched a campaign to stop actors &#8220;playing disabled&#8221;.
Lizzy Clark was 14 when the BBC asked her to play the part of Poppy, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing a new masterpiece by Irked&#8217;s Alphabet Souperintendent!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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This is Mr. Lewis Schofield&#8217;s latest painting. It&#8217;s entitled “Undersea Stroll” and it&#8217;s about to be exhibited at an autism conference&#8230;
Isn&#8217;t it totally awesome?!
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Click here to read the story behind the artwork &#62;&#62;
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		<title>&#8220;Like peanut butter and jelly, Cowboy and Wills are the perfect pair&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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The book Cowboy &#38; Wills opens the day after critically-acclaimed author Monica Holloway’s adorable three year-old son Wills is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. She takes him to a pet store; and from her first impulse purchase of a full aquarium, Holloway quickly graduates to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Jaylen Arnold featured on CBS Evening News!!!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Back in July, we introduced you to a very, very amazing young man named Jaylen Arnold—who has had Tourette&#8217;s Syndrome for most of his nine years. Jaylen&#8217;s on a mission to educate the whole world about bullying. (And he&#8217;s off to a fantastic start: even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The title of John Elder Robison&#8217;s next book is&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Auties &#38; Aspies, Books &#38; Book Reviews
According to John Elder Robison&#8217;s official Twitter account, the title of his next book is called &#8220;Geeks Rule&#8221;, and it should be available in the fall of 2010.
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BUY John&#8217;s best-selling first book
And visit&#8230;
johnrobison.com
robisonservice.com
jerobison.blogspot.com
twitter.com/johnrobison
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Read Irked posts tagged &#8220;asperger’s syndrome&#8221;
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		<title>A riveting online chat with Pulitzer Prize winning (Aspie) author, editor, music critic, producer and professor Tim Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Auties &#38; Aspies, Interviews, Books &#38; Book Reviews


Tim Page, author of &#8220;Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger&#8217;s&#8221; and a Pulitzer Prize winning music critic, was online at washingtonpost.com Tuesday, October 27 to take readers&#8217; questions and to discuss the effects of Asperger&#8217;s syndrome on his life and coping mechanisms he uses to treat it.
The entire [...]]]></description>
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