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Below are the 4 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Autistic Thoughts" journal:

April 1st, 2008
10:14 pm [Link]	"April is the cruelest month....." ...too frazzled and exhausted for posting anything particularly eloquent or coherent at the moment, much to my chagrin. Autism 'Awareness' Month begins today. Be(a)ware. Current Mood: fatigued Current Music: Tori Amos- "Strange Little Girl" Tags: autism, disability rights, linkspam, media, video (3 comments \| Leave a comment)
January 1st, 2008
08:09 pm [Link]	First Post of 2008 Nothing really interesting to say at the moment, but I had some interesting links I wanted to share. Creature Discomforts- a series of ads about physical disabilities produced by Leonard Cheshire Disability and the creators of Wallace and Gromit. All of the claymation Aardman animals are voice-acted by real people talking about life with their disabilities and the obstacles they face because of inaccessibility and stigma. D-PAN- music videos beautifully re-interpreted in ASL by deaf performers. I've kinda been perseverating on their version of "Waiting on the World to Change" and watching it over and over. :-) the seam of skin and scales- Poem by Little Light. Very powerful and moving, regardless of whether you're cis- or transsexual. Happy New Year, everyone! Current Mood: thoughtful Current Music: John Mayer- "Waiting on the World to Change" Tags: community, disability rights, linkspam, media, organizations, physical disability, video (Leave a comment)
October 5th, 2007
02:41 pm [Link]	Can you spare a moment to help save a life? Considering that I've managed to vastly exceed my normal posting rate and blog at least a little something every day so far this month, I think I'm going to be informally commemorating National Disability Employment Awareness Month by challenging myself to have NaBloPoMo a month early this year. I apologize in advance if this means I end up cluttering anyone's flists. Today's post was initially planned to be something inspired by a conversation I had about adaptive technology, but then I received a link from a friend for projectdownload and decided that this takes priority. I've thus far been lucky to never have to fight the insurance system for needed medical coverage, nor have I been turned down for insurance because of my disabilities, but there are times when it's been a very real concern. I've seen other people I know be denied coverage and it makes me want to scream or cry every time... it's maddening how so many of the people in this country who need medical help most are the same people who are least able to get it. I didn't have the resources to spare to help them then, but I've at least enough time to spare to download a ~3 kb file once a day to help redscorner. I can't vouch as to whether or not MegaUpload will follow through on their part of this, I can't vouch that anyone's clicks will actually be counted, but I can vouch that you're not asked for any identifying information and the .txt file won't kill your computer or anything if you download it, and this doesn't feel like Munchausen-by-Internet to me. Pass it on? Current Mood: serious Current Music: Rammstein- "Alter Mann" Tags: community, disability, linkspam, medical (Leave a comment)
October 4th, 2007
10:21 pm [Link]	Linkdrop Thanks to a poster at no_pity, I've been made aware of this lovely short film called "Talk". Stuff like this really needs more exposure. Watch it here: Part 1 Part 2 or here, with captioning and sign (presumably in BSL): Part 1 Part 2 Current Mood: giggly Current Music: Rockapella- "Zombie Jamboree" Tags: ablism, disability rights, humor, linkspam, video (Leave a comment)