• Accepting Autism
  Great essay by a mother about how & why she came to accept her young son's newly-diagnosed autism rather than trying frantically to "cure" it, and valuable advice to other struggling parents of autistic kids.
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• Study: Gaze Aversion Helps Pupils Think
  Interesting article from the BBC covering research that shows students think better when they aren't making eye contact, something autistics have maintained for a long time.
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• The Joy of Autism
  Article on the journey Estee Klar took from her son's infancy to allying with autistic self-advocates and what her son is like now as an eight-year-old.
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• 8 Great Alternative Desktop Managers For Linux
  Linux,articles,links,desktop,managers
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• Articles by Turid Rugaas
  Articles on dog behavior & body language by a top international expert in dog behavior/communication.
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• Build a Killer Customized Arch Linux Installation (and Learn All About Linux in the Process)
  A detailed guide "to inspire" intermediate Linux users, explaining the benefits of using Arch and how to get it all configured step-by-step.
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• Don't Fear The Penguin: A Newbie's Guide To Linux
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• Estée Klar's published articles & essays
  Set of material by the mother of a 'classic' autistic boy, who long ago decided to accept her son rather than attempt to 'cure' him.
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• Magic word 'XYZZY'
  Interesting article on "everything you ever wanted to know about the magic word XYZZY"
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• New York Times: Autistics Plead Against 'Curing' Them
  Interesting article from the NYT from a few years back, covering the autistic acceptance movement.
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• New Zork Times: The History of Zork
  "This is the history of the most famous of all interactive fiction games: Zork. It was written by Tim Anderson and Stu Galley and appeared in three issues of The New Zork Times. "
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• NHS Choices
  Living Well With Autism
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• Rendering Unto Oprah: How Dead Pets, Bad Brains, and Free Speech Landed Me in Amarillo
  Followup from the reporter that wrote the original article exposing how dead pets were being used in pet food, and who later testified in the lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey for her coverage of CJB "mad cow" disease.
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• Teen autistic advocate uses her experience to give hope
  About an autistic teen whose parents adapted to how her mind works & was designed to develop, focusing on truly important social things like keeping her face clean rather than forcing conformity -- and who now is not only well-liked & excelling academically, but is a devoted autistic advocate getting the word out through appearances and online videos.
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• The Autistics.org Autism Information Library
  Great "library" of essays by autistics (and a few by non-autistic allies/parents) exploring various topics -- what it's like in an institution, acceptance vs. cure, reasons for different autistic "behaviors" like stimming, what it's like to always hide one's autistic traits, etc.
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• The cruel toll of disability hate crime | Tom Shakespeare | The Guardian
  A disabled columnist comments on how he came to realize that hate crimes against the disabled really do exist, and about the damage it does to the victims. "I think my mental block arose because I did not want to believe that human beings could be so vile. I was wrong."
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• There's Nothing Wrong With My Autistic Son
  Describes a mother's journey from feeling pain at having an "abnormal" child, to how & why she decided to accept him as an autistic child rather than trying to make him into a typical one.
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• What's Cookin'? Ever Wonder What Happens to Dead Animals?
  A scanned-in copy of the 90s newspaper article providing photographic evidence & quoted interviews indicating that deceased pets were being shipped to a rendering plant for use in (among other things) pet food.
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• When You Don't Fit In At Work
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