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		<title>Darcy Kramer on Transitioning to College</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Guest Blogger Darcy Javanne Kramer!
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First, a quick introduction:  I am a counselor at the Disability Resource Center at Portland State University, the largest four-year public college in the state of Oregon.  Elizabeth asked me to guest blog about transition from high school to college for students on the spectrum, which I gladly accepted.
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		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=146</link>
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		<title>Ups and Downs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of us are old enough to remember the Pogo cartoon in which a character announced that he didn&#8217;t want &#8220;ups and downs&#8221;&#8211;he wanted &#8220;ups and upper ups.&#8221;  That&#8217;s certainly what parents want&#8230;kids who keep growing and developing.   When the general trend is upward, and about the typical speed of progression, the &#8220;downs&#8221; don&#8217;t bother [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=144</link>
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		<title>Error!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend from the area emailed me today to tell me that I had wrongly reported the details about the woman in Irving who killed her two young autistic children.  Her husband is alive; she is not a widow.
I didn&#8217;t bookmark the other sources of information I&#8217;d found, so now (of course) I can&#8217;t find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=142</link>
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		<title>The Irving Tragedy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A woman in Irving, Texas killed her two autistic children, then called the police and turned herself in, saying she didn&#8217;t want them to live like that.
The story, and the reactions to it (both here and the Star  Telegram:  http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/07/20/2349223/09-cps-inquiry-on-irving-family.html) reveals a lot&#8211;but not enough&#8211;about the woman, her situation, the  state&#8217;s social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=140</link>
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		<title>Moving Along</title>
		<description><![CDATA[M- is now in his sixth week of living on his own in an apartment in the city.   I haven&#8217;t been to his apartment since week four;  R- has picked him up on Friday to come  up here for Friday night through Sunday morning, then R- takes him to church, and then ice-skating.   (The Sunday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=138</link>
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		<title>Big Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the start of M-&#8217;s fourth week in his own apartment an hour away in the city.   Yesterday evening, I got email from him saying he had mail from the city, and was supposed to take something to the city offices and have a stamp, but he didn&#8217;t know where the city offices were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Second Full Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday,  M- left his keys up here (50 miles from where he now lives) and so after church he had to go to the apartment offices and be let in to pick up his spare keys.   Wednesday, when I was going to the city anyway, I took his keys down to him and tried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=133</link>
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		<title>First Week Post-Move</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was all moving, actually.  One of us was down there every day (husband on Monday and Friday, me on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and M- came home Friday with husband for the weekend.   Or part of it.   Like many college students, he brought laundry to do at home (but he did it, not me.)   
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=131</link>
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		<title>Moving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday we moved the non-furniture stuff into M-&#8217;s apartment.   A couple of trips up and down the stairs, and we were all glad someone else would be humping the bed, chairs, and big round table up there.

We left M- there about 5:30 in the evening, with instructions to call if he had any problems.   He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=129</link>
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		<title>Day Before Moving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All the furniture to be moved is now at M-&#8217;s present address, ready for pickup Monday morning.
A few more boxes will be packed today.    SO glad we&#8217;re moving a twin bed and not a double!   I was able to get mattress and then box springs into the hall myself, while the guys moved the red [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/?p=125</link>
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