• Overflowing Brain - With Room For Crazy Since 2007
  "I'm Katie, a 27 year old, full-time graduate student who just happened to have brain surgery in November of 2007 to give my ginormous brain a little more space. This blog chronicles my daily life, from relentless headaches to being a doctor's wife."
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• Parent-2-Parent
  Wonderful support forum for parents of children that have feeding problems, whether they involve a PEG or NG tube, severe GI reflux, EA/TEF, or other causes.
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• Pulling The Cat's Tail - a metaphor for autistic meltdowns
  An autistic man's commentary on autistic meltdowns & how they're often handled.
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• Shauna's Life In Pain And Other Fun Things
  Interesting blog by a nurse of 20 years that has become disabled by spinal stenosis & associated severe chronic pain.
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• Social Security & Supplemental Security Income Benefit Publications
  Official SSA site full of info about Social Security, SSI, and Medicare -- introduction, disability benefits, Medicare, etc.
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• Stereotypes, Myths, and Attitudes
  disability,info,stereotypes,students,employment
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• Testimonies of learning disabled abuse - The Guardian
  Description of some of the stories chronicled in the new documentary "Sticks and Stones", which covers how people with learning disabilities are victims of hate crimes, experiencing violence, harassment, or cold indifference.
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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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• The Joy of Autism
  Former blog by the mother of a 'classic' autistic boy; the old posts remain an amazing resource. (The mother, Estee Klar, now blogs at another site.)
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• The Many Models of Disability
  disability,info,disability models,social-model
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• The Political Model of Disability -- the "This Way Of Life" blog
  "In this model, the people who further a given person’s cause are disabled, everyone else is not." (Note: a disability "model" explains a way that people define the concept of disability. See my relevant "disability_models" tag for more info.)
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• The R-Word is Being Heard
  "Why is it such a big deal? Well, let me tell you why, and I hope that you will be able to see and understand why this word hurts, as a matter of fact, why it hurts so deeply."
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• To Get To The Other Side - Estée Klar's blog/website
  Newer blog by Estee Klar, mother of a classic autistic boy called Adam.
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• Together, We Will Find A Cure!
  disability,lupus,blogs,support,medical news
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• Ultimate Guide To SSI & SSDI
  Aims to share info on SSI/SSDI from all over the web in order to help applicants & recipients; also includes links to other resource sites.
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• Understanding Supplemental Security Income
  All about every aspect of SSI one could wonder about (who gets it? what if I'm overpaid?), with a descriptive table of contents.
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• What Is Arnold Chiari Malformation?
  Great explanation of what ACM1 is, common symptoms, what it's like to live with it, and so forth.
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