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Dora Raymaker
Portland, OR
Dora is committed to improving quality of life for individuals on the autistic spectrum--including herself! She works toward this goal from within the social sciences as Co-director of the Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education, from within the self-advocacy community as a member of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network's Board of Directors, and through her professional and volunteer work in education, outreach, and consulting within the Autism and Disability community.
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Dora commented on the article |Whoot! That is fantastic! Congratulations!
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Dora commented on the article |
Of course I can't say anything definite because it's not up to me to decide, but I have volunteered to do aut-specific guest posts on the new blog and remain as a resource, so maybe I'm not gone for good :-)
Hopefully, in some way, autistics will remain involved.
Your comment Anemone really has me thinking. I am still processing so I can't comment back yet; a lot of thoughts got triggered. Hoping I can find some words later.
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Dora commented on the article |Hope it's true that the heat will break on Thursday as well. 105 is bad, but I read that it was 108 up the river from me, yikes! (Yes, at 3:00 AM when I should be solidly asleep, it is now cool enough that I've become perky and productive *headdesk*)
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Dora commented on the article |You said, "those without communication difficulties make the better authorities, instead of just being easier to talk to."
Great point, beautifully put.
So is the one about diversity among crips. (Which is a point that really interests me coming from a GLBT background because the GLBT movement has a similar range of diversity to it, creating both problems and creativity.)
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Dora commented on the article |
I like this take on it Elise, thank you!
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Dora commented on the article |That's a great quote from NCIL, thanks for posting it. Gets right at the core of the issue.
The channel call typo is in the category of propagating errors--I pasted it from elsewhere, already erroneous! Am editing to fix it now and hopefully stop the madness, thanks.
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Dora commented on the article |Yeah I definitely oversimplified the topic of laughter, mostly because what I wanted to focus on was the happiness research and the concept of happy spontaneous laughter associated with concept of happiness in my brain. I'm putting laughter in my ideas file and will address it more in depth when I can (no guarantees on time though--sometimes it can take me a while to get around to specific topics).
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Dora commented on the article |
I've heard parents literally say they were thrilled when their child told his or her first lie. Oh goodie, just what the world doesn't need--more liers. Hooray? *headdesk* This "lying is good because non-autistic people do it more often" thing has always disturbed me deeply. If that's what it means to be "normal" thank the heavens I'm not! If it was "normal" to kill kittens I wouldn't want to be encouraged to exhibit that behavior either.
Thanks for the link!
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