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		<title>Dear Reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2016 05:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Reader, &#160; Or should I say, friend? If not friend then surely fellow human, at the bare minimum. Just know that you are more than just a reader of words. You are a fellow soul who found, perhaps, at least some enjoyment from the stories I&#8217;ve shared with you. &#160; My sincere goal was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>We Rise</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Flannery]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still here. Are you? ********* We Rise]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Lucky To Have A Special Needs Family</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Flannery]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last night I was sitting outside on the porch, enjoying the fresh air and only slightly cool breeze that is a Texas winter, and had a rare, contented moment of thinking, &#8220;I love my family. I am SO lucky.&#8221; &#160; &#160;&#160; For the ordinary person, that wouldn&#8217;t be an unusual feeling to have, but having [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not in the Band, Yet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Flannery]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The thing most interesting about relationships is how they come in all sizes, shapes, and sounds. When I think about social media, I don&#8217;t immediately conjure thoughts of finding deep, meaningful relationships with strangers. The flaw in that comes from thinking of fellow human beings as &#8220;strangers.&#8221; Social media is words; words accompanied by something [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Reason I Broke Up With Hillary Clinton</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Flannery]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t have to agree completely with someone&#8217;s politics to admire them and the valuable work they&#8217;ve done. Hillary Clinton has had a major impact on women&#8217;s rights and social issues. I&#8217;ve considered myself a fan, supporter, even a friend (I cannot confirm that she is aware of my existence). Hillary (Hillsy, I call her) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>United Airlines, Autism, and Discrimination</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Flannery]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2015 16:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; For days now the dominant story in my feed is about the family  who was escorted off a United Airlines flight because their autistic daughter was perceived as a potential threat to passenger safety. The family is now suing the airline for discrimination. &#160; I&#8217;m sick of reading about this, mostly because everybody has an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>10 Things Autism Families Want Teachers to Know</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Flannery]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2015 19:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Parents of autistic children want the same things other parents want for their typically developing children. We want our kids to learn, grow, and be nurtured in a quality school with good teachers. We also want our children to have the supports necessary to give them equal footing (to the extent possible) in the classroom. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How I Became a POW in the Bedtime Wars</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Flannery]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I look backward through the smudged glass of my memory, I see very clearly that bedtime has always been a problem. For a while there were night terrors; countless hours where I sat with my back against his bedroom door, crying silent tears as I watched him wander his room aimlessly, screaming and crying [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Two Children, One Spectrum: Social Skills</title>
		<link>https://theconnorchronicles.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/two-children-one-spectrum-social-skills/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Flannery]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; I hope everyone had a great holiday season and found the time for some rest. I guess I wasn&#8217;t ready for the holiday break to be over, because I&#8217;m a week late in getting back to this! &#160; Today is the last topical post in the series, and next week we will have a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Two Children, One Spectrum: Medication</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Flannery]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; This is part 8 in a series about two children on the autism spectrum. You can read the rest of the series by clicking here.  Today Jen, from Anybody Want a Peanut, and I will be talking about the topic of medication. &#160; Moe: About a year ago, we had several false-starts with medications [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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