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	<description>Katharine Annear</description>
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		<title>Driving</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the moment I am learning to drive. I am 36 years old and have Asperger syndrome and a movement disorder and I never saw myself driving. The lessons are not without their challenges. I have a good driving instructor he seems to be a natural teacher with intuition and most of the time he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Company@</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katharine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[acting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Brett Williamson ABC 891 Adelaide What started as a group of amateur actors with autism reciting scenes out of Red Dwarf has blossomed into a professional actors group. Company@ offers actors with autism a chance to openly express their emotions and experiences of living with autism, to help them conquer some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disability Studies Quarterly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katharine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tito]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have just discovered the latest Disability Studies Quarterly and I&#8217;m overjoyed! I feel like &#8216;autism&#8217; is coming of age within disability.  It is fitting that there are articles by both Jim Sinclair and Ari Ne&#8217;eman. Dare I say Father of the movement and one of its most prominent sons. I have a feeling that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on the label.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katharine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not going to be one of those who hangs on to the Asperger label as I have always embraced the concept of autism and have in fact chosen to call myself Autistic in some realms for political purposes. Autistic is controversial as it flies in the face of person first language. I tend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What would Hans Asperger think?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katharine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about the recent controversy regarding the DSM 5 and the choice to propose a move away from Asperger syndrome/disorder. I can&#8217;t help but think about what Asperger himself may think and feel it is important to visit his work and his intent when describing the condition he observed. In 1944 Hans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-Post: Australian Shadow Report Project</title>
		<link>http://www.autap.com/?p=127</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katharine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities &#8211; NGO Shadow Report Leading disability organisations have partnered to form a project group which is compiling a Shadow Report on Australia&#8217;s implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The overall aim of the Shadow Report is to make recommendations to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tired Yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katharine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I began to get tired toward the end of this year and was wondering how I would keep going under the pressure of everyday life. My mind is such that I am driven to do and to achieve not only for myself but on behalf of others. I have had time to rest and reflect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autism Speaks &#8216;I am Autism&#8217;: A short response.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katharine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since time immemorial, people with disabilities, whether mental or physical, have been the subject of scorn, ridicule, fear, demonization, intolerance, ostracism, social and economic marginalization, and, all too often, outright indifference &#8211; These practices have been universal and no nation on earth is guilt free (Beverly &#038; Alvarez, 2003). The current campaign being run by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radical Cheerleading</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katharine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I was exploring the idea of Radical Cheerleading &#8211; which is cheerleading with an activist edge. Now cheerleading is not something that I ever aspired to as a young person but I like the activist part and there is still part of me that would love to stick it to the girls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergence: Leadership and the Autism Spectrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katharine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ASAN AU]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autism and Asperger syndrome are developmental disabilities often referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). For many self advocates on the spectrum the term ‘Autistic’ is the term chosen for self reference. Autism is historically characterised as a severe disability that has attracted many stereotypes and misunderstandings. There are said to be 1/160 Australians with [...]]]></description>
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