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		<title>More Jaylen Arnold!</title>
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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>Humour of Repetition: spotlighting Howie Mandel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Books &#38; Book Reviews, Irked Videos, Interviews

Over a decade ago, freewheelin&#8217; comedian Howie Mandel (howiemandel.com) first spoke about his debilitating obsessive compulsive disorder and ADHD—when he was outed on Howard Stern&#8217;s radio show. Now, all these years later, he&#8217;s finally opening up and &#8220;telling all&#8221;&#8230;in his candid, courageous, and VERY VERY FUNNY memoir titled [...]]]></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>INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS: KCBS anchor Jeff Bell riffs about his struggles with OCD</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Jeff Bell is a renowned author, speaker, and radio news anchor.  His first book, &#8220;REWIND, REPLAY, REPEAT: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,&#8221; was published in 2007 and quickly established Bell as a leading voice in the mental health community. His story has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Psychology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WONDERFABULOUS NEWS: Announcing the 2009 Recipient of the Trent University Award for Youth Leadership&#8230;Mr. Lewis Schofield!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Regular Contributors, Lewis Schofield, Themes, Auties &#38; Aspies, QuIrked Kids

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The Trent University Award for Youth Leadership recognizes individuals under the age of 25 who play a leading role in their community. Lewis Schofield educates youth and adults globally about Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome and Myasthenia Gravis, a rare and complex neuromuscular autoimmune disease for which there is no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jasmine the cat over-grooms herself into an O.C.D. diagnosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
is a type of anxiety disorder.
People get it.
Cats get it too.
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		<title>FOLLOW UP: Jaylen Arnold posts a new YouTube video!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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You remember Jaylen Arnold, right? Well, he&#8217;s back!
Prepare to watch a totally awesome video&#8230;after the jump!

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According to jaylenschallenge&#8217;s official YouTube channel:

Jaylen Arnold has a message for y&#8217;all folk out there in tubeland!!! Yehawww!!

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[Note: if you don't know Jaylen yet, read this post first to get acquainted.]
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Learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANTI-BULLYING CRUSADE: Jaylen Arnold&#8217;s Tourette&#8217;s challenge!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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The website jaylenschallenge.org is the dream of a wonderful little 8-year-old boy named Jaylen Arnold. Jaylen suffers from Tourette Syndrome. He wants to educate people about bullying, bringing attention to the difficulties he faces in his day to day living. He hopes to make you laugh, make you cry, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Granirer: Still Standin&#8217; Up For Mental Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Quoted from StandUpForMentalHealth.com:

In David Granirer&#8217;s Stand Up For Mental Health course, mental health consumers turn their problems into comedy, then perform their acts at conferences, treatment centers, psych wards, for various mental health organizations, on college and university campuses, and most importantly for the general public. &#8216;We use comedy to give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socks, by Hal Newman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Socks
by Hal Newman
Cynthia is nine years old. She was rescued from her home after floodwaters reached the second floor. Her mom and dad and sister and their two cats all made it out safely.
However, right at this moment, in the middle of an overcrowded Red Cross shelter, among hundreds of other evacuees, the only [...]]]></description>
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