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		<title>Dating, With Autism&#8211;New York Times</title>
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		<title>Two very nice reviews from Autism Speaks</title>
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		<title>Six Word Memoir Winners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Autism, you&#8217;ve taught me a lot! ecstatic/miserable, affectionate/distant, needy/defiant Connect with your child (repeat indefinitely) That shirt is way to scratchy &#8220;It&#8217;s a little, you know, weird&#8221; &#8220;I have Autism, I can help.&#8221; Sleep? It is for other people. Child doesn&#8217;t sleep; mother loses mind. &#8220;No splashy my head wif water&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ll NEVER let you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This is not a book about young man with a disability, but rather a story of love, adaptation, and acceptance.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Flo had no idea how many times I had said to Matthew, "If you want to be treated like a regular guy, you've got to act like a regular guy!" or "Regular guys don't talk about poisonous plants all the time!" Unfortunately, social awkwardness is wired into Matthew's brain, and no amount of instruction or reasoning was going to change that."]]></description>
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		<title>Facilitating Friendship&#8211;or more&#8211;with the opposite sex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here to follow series.(most recent segment on top).]]></description>
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		<title>On CNN.COM: A Rain Man Moment</title>
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		<title>Dogs help children with autism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Follow this link for original article:]]></description>
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		<title>Laura at San Francisco Chronicle City Brights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[City Brights are prominent local citizens and experts with a unique Bay Area perspective that is often enlightening, sometimes infuriating and always thought-provoking. Follow this link:]]></description>
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		<title>The Shumaker Brothers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story of two very different sons and the mother that worries about them.]]></description>
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		<title>Parenting an Adult with Autism-New York Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Follow THIS LINK to read my guest post for Lisa Belkin&#8217;s Motherlode blog in the New York Times]]></description>
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