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	<title>Irked Magazine &#187; self-esteem</title>
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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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				<category><![CDATA[Auties & Aspies]]></category>
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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>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/10092/happy-now-an-honest-and-magnificent-new-essay-about-depression-by-anna-quon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books & Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The UpDown Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Quon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[medication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Migration Songs]]></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>Jennifer Wilding knocks one out of the park&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9919/jennifer-wilding-knocks-one-out-of-the-park/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/9919/jennifer-wilding-knocks-one-out-of-the-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Wheelchairman of the Board]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[funny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humour]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Wilding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Wheelchairman of the Board

Here now is a truly, truly beautiful essay—titled &#8220;My wheelchair makes me invisible.&#8221;
It was written by Toronto&#8217;s Jennifer Wilding (who temporarily needs a wheelchair to get around), and originally published in the Globe and Mail and on theglobeandmail.com:

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Almost three years ago, after a series of misadventures and mishaps, I ended up in [...]]]></description>
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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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				<category><![CDATA[Campaign Watch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inclusion]]></category>
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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>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deaf Jam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Deaf Jam
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>General Corporate Assholery</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9572/general-corporate-assholery-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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A 47-year-old wheelchair-bound mother who had a stroke 18 months ago has been forced to do her banking on the street after staff at her local NatWest branch refused to lift her up two steps &#8220;for health and safety reasons.&#8221;
Is this the 21st century??

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Quoting Carole Duckworth:

&#8220;All my banking is done outside &#8211; paying [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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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>URGENT APPEAL: Save New Moon Girl Media from going out of business!</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9435/urgent-appeal-save-new-moon-girl-media-from-going-out-of-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Campaign Watch
If you&#8217;re the parent of a daughter between the ages of 8 and 12, chances are you&#8217;ve heard of a wonderful and empowering magazine called &#8220;New Moon Girls&#8221; (and its sister website newmoon.com, where girls can ask questions and share experiences with their peers in a safe, adult-monitored environment). The magazine, a &#8220;champion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A revealing interview with Ladyhawke</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/9119/a-revealing-interview-with-ladyhawke/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/9119/a-revealing-interview-with-ladyhawke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, Auties &#38; Aspies, Interviews

Ladyhawke—aka Pip Brown (whose debut album &#8220;Ladyhawke,&#8221; produced by Modular Recordings, is out now)—sat down with pedestrian.tv recently and opened up about many things, including her Asperger&#8217;s, allergies, anxiety, awkwardness, adrenaline, audiences, and&#8230;erysipeloid.
Here are the highlights:
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&#8220;I have this thing called Asperger&#8217;s syndrome. When I found out, it explained my whole childhood. I told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crystal Renn chats with TIME Magazine about body image</title>
		<link>http://irkedmagazine.com/8925/crystal-renn-chats-with-time-magazine-about-body-image/</link>
		<comments>http://irkedmagazine.com/8925/crystal-renn-chats-with-time-magazine-about-body-image/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Skinny on Fat]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[eating disorder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: Themes, The Skinny on Fat, Interviews

Six years ago, Crystal Renn was an unknown size-0 model who moved to New York from Clinton, Mississippi, to make it big. She struggled with her weight for years, however, and finally made the bold decision to switch to plus-size modeling. Now a healthy 165 pounds, she is the highest-paid plus-size [...]]]></description>
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