I have Asperger’s. Finally. The appointment I’ve been waiting for for months now rolled around.
It was with some trepidation, I went. My experiences with psychiatrists and psychologists have been bland at best. Really poor at worst. I’d heard good things about this guy, but as we all know: just because one person has good chemistry [...]
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Woo! For once I’m kinda proud of the people in our parliament. Check this out:
Parliament signals to government for the first time that it is ready to give equal adoption rights to civil partnership and married couples
There has been a majority vote in parliament today to introduce a bill giving same-sex couples in registered partnerships [...]
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Yesterday I was talking to two co-workers in the lunch room. We discussed the tragedy in Winnenden, and the fact that all victims except one had been female. I pointed out that the majority of victims being women or girls was actually a fact for the majority of school shootings during the past several decades. [...]
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I am listening to a very skilled speaker. He just won the Democratic primaries in the US.
From the beginning I didn’t much care whether it became Clinton or Obama. As a feminist I would’ve loved to see Clinton in the Oval Office, and as an ally to people of colour I [...]
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It has just been announced that the state will fund the HPV vaccine to girls aged 12-15. It will be free and voluntary, of course, and I’m very happy about this decision made by our government’s health department.
Now we just need to get the vaccine to the boys as well, because those girls ain’t gonna [...]
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