My parents were party people in the 60s and 70s. Alcohol flowed and morality didn’t seem to be a family priority even though bravado, power and laughing things off and away, did. There seemed a recklessness, a constant reminder of ‘yeah, yeah, you’ll get over it’.
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Chris Draper, a scientific researcher with the Born Free Foundation contacted me about a new ‘therapy’ ready to cash in on the tail of that equally hot money spinner in the ever expanding autism marketplace, dolphin therapy.
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11 Weeks into our new government and Kevin Rudd, the leader of Australia has had the courage to do what 41 previous Prime Ministers did not - to say the most important word in the healing of Australia’s racial division - the word ’sorry’.
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Perhaps you are one of the members of our global community who is so sickened and burned out by one of the most globally despised leaders of a superpower since Hitler - George W Bush.
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I’m sure most of you have had one.
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In this internet age the word ‘friend’ has become progressively watered down. Today it can mean any acquaintance who adds themselves to your list.
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Richard Attfield is a fellow autistic artist and one of the authors featured in Autism and The Myth of The Person Alone edited by Doug Biklen. He was one of the first people with autism in the UK to
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We often feel that as one person there is little we can do to help equalise the world, reduce the suffering and hardship of the poorest and most disempowered people in the 3rd world or do anything to stop wars or combat global warming.
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The world held its breath. Americans held hope. George Bush, the Texas cowboy, still somehow thinks he’s got it right when 70% of Americans are certain he’s wrong.
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