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		<title>back in the bay area</title>
		<link>http://aspietalk.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/back-in-the-bay-area/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[once again, i want to thank everyone who replied to my last two posts (which i&#8217;ve now made private, as i tend to do that).  i don&#8217;t intend this site to be a pity me, plea for help kinda thing, but just a venting, being honest thing.  but ya&#8217;ll had some good comments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspietalk.wordpress.com&blog=4074597&post=1617&subd=aspietalk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;i deal with retards enough at work&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[here&#8217;s an especially nice detail about the coworker who is still trying to exact revenge on me, or whatever the hell it is she&#8217;s doing with the backhanded trying to blame things on me and talking about me behind my back.  
that one time we went out drinking, we wound up in the back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspietalk.wordpress.com&blog=4074597&post=1602&subd=aspietalk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>what one doesn&#8217;t expect to do on a friday night</title>
		<link>http://aspietalk.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/what-one-doesnt-expect-to-do-on-a-friday-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i went to the mental health/crisis clinic in portland tonight.  didn&#8217;t know i was going to wind up there (was supposed to meet some ppl online, but when i hadn&#8217;t heard from them by 7pm, i gave up on them.)
having drinks at the local lesbian bar. the coworker i&#8217;d invited for drinks (had invited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspietalk.wordpress.com&blog=4074597&post=1600&subd=aspietalk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>don&#8217;t matter how well i do the job, it&#8217;s never good enough</title>
		<link>http://aspietalk.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/dont-matter-how-well-i-do-the-job-its-never-good-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[there is a someone else at the minimum wage job i&#8217;ve been at, the home for developmentally/mentally disabled people, someone who i don&#8217;t like working with.  she&#8217;s bossy, abrupt, inconsiderate&#8230;  that pretty much sums it up.  thankfully i don&#8217;t work the same shift with her.  i&#8217;ve had a few run-ins with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspietalk.wordpress.com&blog=4074597&post=1590&subd=aspietalk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>emptying into the empty stream</title>
		<link>http://aspietalk.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/emptying-into-the-empty-stream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i am working for an organization that deals with people with developmental disabilities/mental retardation.  i feel very bad using the phrase &#8220;mental retardation&#8221; but that&#8217;s the official terminology they use. am i even allowed to use the R word, tho?   i&#8217;d been two months into this new city, not able to find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspietalk.wordpress.com&blog=4074597&post=1581&subd=aspietalk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>an adult trying to get accommodations for asperger&#8217;s at work &#8211; the difficulties</title>
		<link>http://aspietalk.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/an-adult-trying-to-get-accommodations-for-aspergers-at-work-the-difficulties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aspietalk.wordpress.com/?p=1526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[i&#8217;m having troubles at my job.  i had told my supervisor perhaps&#8230;  6 months ago?, that i had undiagnosed asperger&#8217;s syndrome, explained to him that i&#8217;ve been attending support groups and trying to find ways to get an official diagnosis, but my insurance won&#8217;t pay for it and any private way i can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspietalk.wordpress.com&blog=4074597&post=1526&subd=aspietalk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I started to feel as if the city landscape had imperceptibly shifted around me.</title>
		<link>http://aspietalk.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/i-started-to-feel-as-if-the-city-landscape-had-imperceptibly-shifted-around-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[this is from page 2 of an article talking about strange psychiatric, mindf*ck side effects people have experienced when taking the stop-smoking drug chantix:
The term suicidal ideation looks pretty dead on the page, and if you were ever to experience such a symptom, it’s unlikely you’d pick up on it right away: “Here comes that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspietalk.wordpress.com&blog=4074597&post=1519&subd=aspietalk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on limitations of brains, and social protocols</title>
		<link>http://aspietalk.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/on-limitations-of-brains-and-social-protocols/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aspietalk.wordpress.com/?p=1503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[the aforementioned really interesting person on twitter is, truly, very interesting, but has a tendency to, when she starts talking about something, go on.  and on.  not just about the one topic, but then onto a tangential thought, and another tangential thought&#8230;  and i clocked her, to see if i was imagining [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspietalk.wordpress.com&blog=4074597&post=1503&subd=aspietalk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>possibly a real person, but in such a misaligned way</title>
		<link>http://aspietalk.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/possibly-a-real-person-but-in-such-a-misaligned-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://aspietalk.wordpress.com/?p=1496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[i met up with a friend this past thursday at a local bar.  i like hanging out with this person because i find her easy to talk to:  she&#8217;s extremely intelligent, aware, curious but not in an overbearing way, open-minded, and speaks in complete sentences, means what she says.  if you&#8217;re someone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspietalk.wordpress.com&blog=4074597&post=1496&subd=aspietalk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>i now tell people that i&#8217;m deaf.  this seems to work better.</title>
		<link>http://aspietalk.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/i-now-tell-people-that-im-deaf-and-this-seems-to-work-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i am a designer, and a significant portion of my job is sending print jobs to outside printers.  this involves job analysis, pricing, quotes, pre-press, taking care of technical issues of the print process, dealing with their sales people, etc.
i had a problem with the printer i used for a job last month (really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aspietalk.wordpress.com&blog=4074597&post=1487&subd=aspietalk&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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