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	<description>Laura&#039;s experiences and thoughts on autism and asperger&#039;s</description>
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		<title>The Not Happening Bone Scan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 18:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit more than a year ago I had a bone density scan. It found that I have osteoporosis; to some degree in my spine, severe in my hips. I have spoken with my doctor about this and am following her instructions in diet and supplement to preclude much worsening of my condition. It has been long enough now and I would like to know just how I have changed in this period of time. Have my bones strengthened any? Have they stayed the same? Have my bones weakened? So, today while in /cottonwood, I stopped by the medical imaging clinic where last year I had my bone scan done. Now, this is a major action on my part. last year I paid about seventy dollars for the scan. By the time I see my doctor and have the scan I will be spending about one and a half hundred dollars, more than that with the inclusion of petrol. I was shocked. This year the scan is one hundred and one dollars, plus the interpretation of the results by an outside company that should be &#8220;less than a hundred dollars&#8221;, I can call to find how much less. Okay, add &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://lauranagle.net/wordpress/the-not-happening-bone-scan">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Autism, Motorcycling, and Someone Lost and Now Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 03:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three periods of time I have ridden motorcycles. I have been driven to them by poverty. Any given quantity of money will buy a better motorcycle than it will buy a car. Most motorcycles get better fuel mileage than do most cars. Most motorcycles are less costly to operate than are most cars. I have found that bikes go better with poverty than do automobiles. Far too often in my life, the car is but a costly lawn ornament as I again walk or take a bus to work. I am now of ancient years and in my third biker age. Way back in nineteen eighty I went back to bikes after being disgusted and financially ruined once more by used cars. I bought a new Honda, a Series 2 CB 750F (The twin cam version that out handled, for that very year, the Ducati SS 750 Desmo). As I studied dealers and deals I noticed that there was a non official group meeting nearby. I thought to myself that as soon as I had brought my skills back up to par I would go there and se what was going on. I did. I found that motorcyclists were wonderful &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://lauranagle.net/wordpress/autism-motorcycling-and-someone-lost-and-now-found">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Autism, Not In A Vacuum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autism Spectrum Disorders are on the rise. Just a few short years ago we accepted numbers of approximately 1 in 250 children born. Recently the numbers bantered about have been 1 in 100 or 1 in 88 0or such. The most recent number from the CDC that I am aware of is 1 in 50. I have looked up the statistics from the approximate time that I was originally diagnosed and have found them also reported within a range; that range being from 1 in 25,000 to 1 in 10,000. Whichever numbers we choose to accept, there certainly has been a huge increase in autism diagnosis during my life time. Now, many of us with autism are loathe to believe any hypothesis other than pure genetics. I understand this viewpoint and sympathize with all who hold it true. If I am as I am due to genetics, then I may be anything at all; perhaps even a new wave of human evolution. On the other hand, to accept any environmental causation of autism implies that some of us, perhaps even I, are damaged. Being autistic is difficult, more difficult than being a &#8220;normal&#8221; person. Being autistic and having to wonder &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://lauranagle.net/wordpress/autism-not-in-a-vacuum">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Better (Health)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 23:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not blogged much during the past week. I have been having a troubling flare of my not known but highly suspected neurological disorder. (This is a Zone One probability.) (I am disordered, what else is new?) This issue actually scares me, if it is what I believe it to be it could easily land me in a Hover Round (I think these are probably really neeto devices and if ever I need one I want one. I do not want to want one) (That sounds like a lyric by &#8220;Cheap Trick!), or in a grave. Here is a funny thing. Whenever a strange thing hits me and which I think is probably neurological in nature I google the symptom(s). Each and every time the search takes me to pages describing the underlying trouble that I consider to be a strong probability (Zone One). Here is another funny thing. I follow as near as I can (Given that I lack funds to see doctors most of the time.) and the flare follows about the course that one would expect. So, I am running an upped daily dose of Prednisone, which is indicated for persons having my current trouble. I &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://lauranagle.net/wordpress/getting-better-health">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oh No! I use the &#8220;F Bomb&#8221; Again! Please Help Me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 22:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is related to my article using the &#8220;F Bomb&#8221; and I am still worked up into a lather. I am in general tired of seeing children adultified by our society. We use our children, as stated by one advocate for something or another, as &#8220;agents of change&#8221;. I dislike this for two reasons: 1. Children are not yet endowed with wisdom. * To cause a child to become an activist is to cause a young person without any philosophical centre to take part in YOUR desired activism. You may think it is wonderful to involve children in YOUR activism, but probably would not appreciate some skinheaded racist involving his children in HIS activism. Political philosophy is for adults, people. To raise a child to be good, to be honest, to be generous, to accept others is good. To foresee them to believe specific political points is indoctrination, no matter who does it. Further, this activism is another case of thinking that children ought to be involved in legal contracts and obligations. That is barbarous. 2. The child&#8217;s mind simply must be disturbed by concepts of: pollution, economic troubles, wars, civil unrest, homelessness, sex**. . . Why? Cannot we allow &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://lauranagle.net/wordpress/oh-no-i-use-the-f-bomb-again-please-help-me">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Uh, Oh, I use the &#8220;F Bomb&#8221;!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 22:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a CBS on line news article which states that two seven year old boys have been suspended by their Suffolk County School district for using pencils as guns, making &#8220;bang&#8221; noises. This school district has a zero tolerance policy on weapons. Weapons, zero tolerance. Pencils and &#8220;bang&#8221; sounds are not weapons. The only thing making these pencils in conjunction with, &#8220;bang&#8221; sounds is within people&#8217;s minds! Certainly the boys thought that the pencils and, &#8220;Bang&#8221; sounds were good enough for a game of shoot &#8216;em up within the boy&#8217;s minds*; will they be punished for thoughts? How long until brain scan technology now under development is used to peer into all our minds? When that happens, will any of us be prosecuted for the thought of weapons when we are insulted or fired or harassed on the basis of zero tolerance extending into our gray matter?** The actual weapons being zero tolerenced here were actually those within the minds of the school system officials. Those people took pencils, bleeding pencils, along with boys making, &#8220;bang&#8221; sounds to be actual weapons suitable for banning and for expulsion of the boys from school.*** How did such fucking crazy people &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://lauranagle.net/wordpress/uh-oh-i-use-the-f-bomb">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Current Problem, My Body Hates Me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 02:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am having a bit of a problem. The bit of a problem is with my body. Those who know me in real life know that I have bits of problems with bits of me fairly often. In the documentary, &#8220;Vectors of Autism&#8221; I state that I think I was built from reworked parts. I have reason for this belief. In addition to autism I have many other problems of physical / health medical nature. Some of these I know because they have been officially diagnosed. Some I know because they are so obvious. Others I highly suspect but do not know with certainty. That is because I am also so poor that one of my ambitions is to live in poverty. That and the fact that I subscribe to the &#8220;Five Minute Survival Theory&#8221; (That survival five years from now is of scant importance if I fail to survive the next five minutes) has me generally more concerned with food and with other immediate troubles than those of long term nature. Most of my problems do not scare me much. Most of them I have had a long time and know intimately. Many of my problems are such that &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://lauranagle.net/wordpress/my-current-problem-my-body-hates-me">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Motorcycling, Freedom, and Responsibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ride a motorcycle. My bike may be technically a scooter, but scooters are motorcycles, and mine is a 250cc liquid cooled, disc braked, continent clobbering super scooter. Some people might think I am a bit fanatic, wearing a Snell Approved 2010 full face helmet while riding a scooter; I do not. I ride everywhere, including interstates, and I ride at speed. The awful truth is that high speeds are not actually needed to cause terrible damage to a human body. Consider this scenario: there is a solid concrete wall forty feet from you. do you want to sprint, as fast as you can run, right into that wall? I&#8217;d bet not. and I would bet that if you were going to, you would want to wear a damned good helmet! I have ridden many miles and may years and I wear helmets. I wear only Snell Approved lids of currrent approval period, and I wear full face. I also am absolutely against adult rider helmet laws. I rode in an anti helmet law protest rally once, with about three thousand other riders, while wearing my then current Bell Star 120. I like freedom. and I like my brain bucket! &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://lauranagle.net/wordpress/motorcycling-freedom-and-responsibility">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Us, and Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Us / Them. This seems an intrinsic and instinctive part of human nature. Whoever we are, there is some other group that we are leery of, that we fear, and whose members we see not as individuals, but only as members of that group. Often the group does not even see itself as a group, we see it is a group &#8211; failing to treat people as people. We label the &#8220;thems&#8221; however we wish to label them; we define the &#8220;thems&#8221; however we wish to define them. The &#8220;thems&#8221; are always horrible. They are so stupid that they clog our society with non productive activity; they are so clever and cunning that they are secretly undermining our very culture. They are so feeble that they cannot do a useful thing; they are so powerful that they will surely bring our nation down. They cannot understand a thing we say; they are listening to everything! We have to keep a close watch on the thems, on the evil fill-in-the-blanks! There are always evil fill-in-the-blanks about. They were the evil Germans whom we dehumanized with names like &#8220;Huns&#8221;. Yes, the Nazi system was horrid, but there have been some pretty spectacular &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://lauranagle.net/wordpress/us-and-them">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Boston, Autism, Hatred, and Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Monday 15 April 2013. There has been a tragedy in Boston. Bombs were set and detonated at the Boston Marathon. At the moment the casualties seem to be two killed and over one hundred injured, many injuries horrendous. Already the speculation has begun about who did this evil. already the eternal &#8220;us / them&#8221; has begun. Think about that for a minute: &#8221; us / them&#8221;, both words are plural. &#8220;Us / them&#8221; is not the same as, &#8220;me / you&#8221;. &#8220;Us / them&#8221; considers not individuals, but rather it references groups. That is the key, to see not people as individuals but as components within a larger whole. &#8220;Hey! You there! Ya damned (fill in the blank)! You&#8217;re all a bunch of (fill in the blank)s!&#8221; Easy, isn&#8217;t it. it is easy, it is natural, it is human. It is ugly. Something happens that someone else doesn&#8217;t like and it is all &#8220;. . .them rotten (fill in the blank)s what&#8217;s are responsible! What an economical way to hate large numbers of people all at once! We are not immune to this breaking down of the complex and subtle into the too easy and obvious. There is &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://lauranagle.net/wordpress/boston-autism-hatred-and-everything">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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