Sweetie

When I am alone, in public, this thing happens.
“You look like a lost puppy!” said a friend as I was looking for my seat in the college cafeteria. Once someone offered me a glass of water as soon as I walked in. Another time, a man pulled me off the street and forced me [...]

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Transcript: Donna Williams’s interview with Tony Attwood

Some people have been asking for a transcript of Donna Williams’s podcast interview with Tony Attwood. It’s not perfect, so feel free to correct me on words I missed/misunderstood, etc:
ETA: Errant Penny has also posted a transcript:
Part 1
Part 2

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R.I.P Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

The King of Pop is dead.
Michael Jackson’s music is the soundtrack of the ’80s for me. Part of the reason may be that mom banned everyone from Poison to Motley Crüe to Guns N’ Roses from the house (I could want my MTV till the cows came home, but I wasn’t getting it). Still, I [...]

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No Words

"Why didn’t you tell me?" my mother says.
When I was very young, I had a book called Stranger Danger. It told me not get in cars with adults I didn’t know, especially if they offered me candy. It told me to tell an adult I did know if such a person ever tried to get [...]

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What Have I Done?

There are three places around town that I can walk to by myself: the Target, the dentist and the local library. (Okay, there’s a Pizza Hut on the way to Target, but since starting my diet lifestyle change I don’t go there).

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Video: Up Syndrome

Friends Duane Graves and Rene Moreno make B movies. Duane writes and directs; Rene acts and does his own stunts. He also has Down Syndrome. In 2000 they made a documentary called Up Syndrome. There’s an abriged version on YouTube:
Part 1
Part 2
Unfortunatley, there are very few subtitles, so it’s not very accessible to Deaf and [...]

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