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No. It's this sort of huge, flat arm that comes off the right side of the desk.

A7512167 - The Little Professors: A vibrant hue in the Autistic rainbow

for ease of loading the entry

I thought you'd already done that.

Hi, Gnomon!
Sorry, I thought I took care of everything on your list except the link.

I've copied your new list to a wordfile and I will get to those things this evening after I return from viewing a movie at the High School with Shnookses German club.

its easier for scouts to have a link on each page of a thread

Tonsil, do you not want to link to the other entry on Asperger's?

I thought I just did!

Did I put the wrong link in?

That's OK now Tonsil. I misunderstood your comment in posting 64.

don't want this getting buried..

A lovely entry!

There's still quite a lot of Americanisms in the text - 'Program' on a couple of occasions rather than 'programme', for instance. The largest volume of things that need looking at are the -ize/-ise endings, which by and large currently adopt the American spelling. If in doubt, make it -ise!

I'd very much like some further explanation or background to the legitimacy of the term 'Aspies'. When I first read the article, it seemed to me as though 'Aspies' might have been a term coined by you, rather than terminology that's been accepted by Asperger's Syndrome patients themselves. Speaking as a fully card-carrying lefty hand-wringing liberal, it took me ages to realise that I was 'allowed' to carry on reading the article without flinching every time I came across that word!

Brilliant work, though - this isn't far from the EG at all!

Paully

It's definitely an accepted term Paully; in fact it's pretty much a term of "pride in being different":

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.org/phpBB2/

zdt

my gf refers to herself occationally as an aspie, so its probably acceptable


I don't think that its a n*gger type self-referential word

"Asperger's Syndrome patients"



I'll see what I can do about the "ize"s and "programs"

Aspies is a word chosen by the community as a friendly term, as the abbreviation AS is so embarrassing and the Asperger's word is often mispronounced as "ass-burgers" by the ignorant.

OK, it's in. Great entry.

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Woo-Hoo!!!!
Congratulations TR!!

Bravo, TR! What a great day this is turning out to be!



Wilma