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		<title>Be Patient, Please</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I plead guilty &#8211; It&#8217;s been two days already and I haven&#8217;t posted the promised second post of April 2. But there&#8217;s a reason. I&#8217;m actually working day and night to get it fully done and you&#8217;ll see why when I&#8217;ll make it public. Looking forward to it &#8211; hope you&#8217;re excited too. So please [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=familyandautism.com&#038;blog=32759181&#038;post=1553&#038;subd=familyandautism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proud &amp; Loud</title>
		<link>http://familyandautism.com/2013/04/02/proud-and-loud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is World Autism Awareness Day. As for now, when it&#8217;s 6:35 pm, I can assure you that everyone I know is familiar with what today is all about. You see, I&#8217;m a proud autism mama and I&#8217;m everything but shy about it &#8211; especially not today. I&#8217;ve been blasting images and exclamation marks on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=familyandautism.com&#038;blog=32759181&#038;post=1543&#038;subd=familyandautism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Amazing Six Year Old</title>
		<link>http://familyandautism.com/2013/02/20/my-amazing-six-year-old/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post is a simple ode to my beautiful, kind, cheerful, loud, computer sick, autistic, persevering, wonderful boy with his easy smile, who turns six today. He still does, and always has, melted people with his bright blue eyes, shrill voice, and beautiful smile and it can sometimes be pure pleasure to witness his special [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=familyandautism.com&#038;blog=32759181&#038;post=1500&#038;subd=familyandautism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Progress</title>
		<link>http://familyandautism.com/2013/01/24/progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been approximately one and a half year since our world turned upside down &#8211; since we learned that our boys are autistic. It sure has been a roller coaster ride. Emotionally, we&#8217;ve delved into the darkest corners of the human mind and then slowly reemerged back up into the sunshine. We still go up [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=familyandautism.com&#038;blog=32759181&#038;post=1468&#038;subd=familyandautism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
		<link>http://familyandautism.com/2013/01/05/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I last posted the Holidays have come and gone and it&#8217;s 2013 already! How fast time flies. I guess a &#8220;Happy New Year&#8221; wish is in order. The year 2012 was eventful to say the least but I have to admit that I was not sad to say goodbye to it and welcome a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=familyandautism.com&#038;blog=32759181&#038;post=1442&#038;subd=familyandautism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Good Advice. Time to Listen?</title>
		<link>http://familyandautism.com/2012/12/10/this-is-good-advice-maybe-its-time-to-listen-huh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes feel like I&#8217;m trying to be everything for everyone and that I&#8217;m slowly but steadily running out of energy. I fear that soon, there&#8217;ll be nothing left to give if this continues. Do you ever feel this way? That&#8217;s why I find this image so appealing &#8211; because it states the truth. It [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=familyandautism.com&#038;blog=32759181&#038;post=1419&#038;subd=familyandautism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing It Is Not the Same As Seeing It</title>
		<link>http://familyandautism.com/2012/11/25/hearing-it-is-not-the-same-as-seeing-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, there was a family get-together. The boys had been with my mother all day and she took them there. I came a bit later and as always, my boys gave me a warm welcome when they saw me. I had been looking forward to meeting everyone as I hadn&#8217;t met all of them since [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=familyandautism.com&#038;blog=32759181&#038;post=1397&#038;subd=familyandautism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Too Optimistic</title>
		<link>http://familyandautism.com/2012/11/14/a-little-too-optimistic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I said in my last post: &#8220;There Is No Place Like Home&#8220;, we&#8217;ve moved back to Iceland at last. And although we do miss some dear people we met, we haven&#8217;t regretted the decision for a single second. This was absolutely the right thing to do. However, it&#8217;s been crazy crazy busy. And not just [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=familyandautism.com&#038;blog=32759181&#038;post=1362&#038;subd=familyandautism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There Is No Place Like Home</title>
		<link>http://familyandautism.com/2012/10/30/there-is-no-place-like-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well ladies and gentlemen, our Denmark chapter is over and we have officially moved to the beautiful land of ice and fire. Yes, we are back in Iceland at last! Not that Denmark isn&#8217;t lovely in its own way. It is. And we were lucky enough to get to know many wonderful people that we [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=familyandautism.com&#038;blog=32759181&#038;post=1328&#038;subd=familyandautism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Autism</title>
		<link>http://familyandautism.com/2012/09/22/dear-autism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ragga</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear autism, It&#8217;s been a year today since you let your presence known and changed our lives forever. I won&#8217;t lie, getting the verdict was a tremendous shock and it didn&#8217;t get easier when we realized, soon after, that not only did JA have autism but also his younger brother, V. For days we were [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=familyandautism.com&#038;blog=32759181&#038;post=336&#038;subd=familyandautism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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