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		<title>More Jaylen Arnold!</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/10430/more-jaylen-arnold/</link>
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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>&#8220;Happy now?&#8221;: An honest and magnificent new essay about depression by Anna Quon</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/10092/happy-now-an-honest-and-magnificent-new-essay-about-depression-by-anna-quon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Books & Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, The UpDown Report, Books &#38; Book Reviews

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This year I fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming a published novelist. The whole process of getting my book “Migration Songs” ready for print was a daunting one. My jewel of an editor saw me through the ups and downs, delivering endless pep talks to get me over the [...]]]></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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				<category><![CDATA[Auties & Aspies]]></category>
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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>General Corporate Assholery</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9792/general-corporate-assholery-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Campaign Watch

The family of an 11-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has accused the Blackpool Transport tram company of abandoning her on a day out after they refused to carry her wheelchair back from the seafront.
Has the whole darn world gone bonkers??

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Quoting telegraph.co.uk:

Eleven-year-old Shelby Watson, who has cerebral palsy, was sent on the trip to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karen Putz explores The Shame of Wearing (Fashionable) Hearing Aids</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9798/karen-putz-explores-the-shame-of-wearing-fashionable-hearing-aids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Quoting the always-always-always entertaining Karen Putz, writing on her website deafmomworld.com:

I came across a post this morning, The Shame of Wearing Hearing Aids, and it brought back memories.  I was one of those kids who hid a hearing aid under long hair.  It wasn’t until I was in college that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Jaylen Arnold featured on CBS Evening News!!!!!!</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9427/mr-jaylen-arnold-featured-on-cbs-evening-news/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/9427/mr-jaylen-arnold-featured-on-cbs-evening-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Campaign Watch, Irked Videos, Themes, Auties &#38; Aspies, QuIrked Kids
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>A feel-good story on All Hallows’ Eve</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9116/a-feel-good-story-on-all-hallows%e2%80%99-eve/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/9116/a-feel-good-story-on-all-hallows%e2%80%99-eve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Wheelchairman of the Board, Irked Videos

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Read the related article on 9news.com &#62;&#62;
Then&#8230;
Read Irked posts tagged &#8220;wheelchair&#8221;
Read Irked posts tagged &#8220;family&#8221;
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		<title>Autism Vox blog &#8220;in transition&#8221; yet again</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9127/autism-vox-blog-in-transition-yet-again/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/9127/autism-vox-blog-in-transition-yet-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Auties &#38; Aspies

Back in January, it was announced that popular Autism Vox blogger Kristina Chew, PhD would no longer be blogging for Blisstree.com.
Then, two months later, we met Jeff and Jill—Kristina&#8217;s replacements.
Which is why we were shocked to read Jeff&#8217;s goodbye note posted yesterday.
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Come back Autism Vox! Please come back!
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Read Irked posts tagged &#8220;autism&#8221;
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		<title>Spotlighting Gilbert Smith: a former police officer who has turned disability equality into his life&#8217;s mission</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9046/spotlighting-gilbert-smith-a-former-police-officer-who-has-turned-disability-equality-into-his-lifes-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Wheelchairman of the Board

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Even sitting in a wheelchair, his hands not fully functional, there&#8217;s a physical presence about Gilbert Smith, the former police officer who was shot on duty and left paralyzed from the waist down.
Maybe it&#8217;s left over from his rough-and-tumble days as a bouncer in his dad&#8217;s bar. Or maybe it&#8217;s just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special &#8220;NEADS&#8221; Hearing Dogs: Choosing a cane or a canine</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9058/special-neads-hearing-dogs-choosing-a-cane-or-a-canine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Deaf Jam, Irked Videos


Ray Dobson and the dog he now calls Goblin both had a problem.
The little mixed-breed who was rescued from the streets of Puerto Rico needed a home. Dobson, of Orleans, Mass., was losing his hearing.
&#8220;My wife saw me kind of dropping out,&#8221; he says. &#8220;As people get deafer they get more [...]]]></description>
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