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		<title>The Path Forward</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2017/06/the-path-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2017 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Vision]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The path forward begins with a question.” That’s what the shaman said during her ceremony. I already knew the answer to her first question, which was “what is your process?” Based on her examples, I knew I tackled issues with &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2017/06/the-path-forward/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of &#8220;Just Words&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2017/02/the-myth-of-just-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bullying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inclusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just Words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Needs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speech Delay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unplanned Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Words]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hate. American chose hate. I am still grappling with this outcome, still feel as if one day I will wake from a bad dream. Except this isn&#8217;t a dream. Donald Trump has just been inaugurated so our collective nightmare won&#8217;t &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2017/02/the-myth-of-just-words/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hope Blooms</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/12/hope-blooms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Across An Aqueous Moon: Travels in Autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2016]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope Blooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letting Go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Needs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to have hope after the most qualified woman—technically the most qualified person, male or female, in decades—loses an election to a compulsive liar without an ounce of relevant governmental experience. But something about the fear and the shock, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/12/hope-blooms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A History of Assault</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/11/a-history-of-assault/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attempted Rape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Assault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Harassment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Single Parent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Triggers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unplanned Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the now infamous Donald Trump and Billy Bush &#8220;pussy grabbing&#8221; video was released, my friend Jennifer and I talked about how &#8220;lucky&#8221; we were in terms of sexual assault. Neither of us had been assaulted as a child or &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/11/a-history-of-assault/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Chicken</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/08/playing-chicken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Behavioral Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IEPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-Public School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Mind School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pressure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rapid Prompting Method]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RPM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School Districts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sensory Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soma RPM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Needs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The school district and I are playing a high stakes (at least for my daughter) game of chicken. They want me to sign an Individualized Education Plan (IEP)—read annual contract—committing my daughter Katie to the generic, for-profit, non-public school (NPS) &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/08/playing-chicken/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Just When I Thought It Couldn&#8217;t Get Worse, Part 6</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/07/just-when-i-thought-it-couldnt-get-worse-part-6/</link>
		<comments>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/07/just-when-i-thought-it-couldnt-get-worse-part-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Behavioral Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Protective Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Single Parent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You thought I forgot about this story, didn&#8217;t you? Life (and death) intervened, but I&#8217;m back to finish this crazy tale. You can find the previous installments here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. The &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/07/just-when-i-thought-it-couldnt-get-worse-part-6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Staring Into the Abyss</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/06/staring-into-the-abyss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letting Go]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Single Parent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently four people weren&#8217;t enough death and dying for one week. Shortly after I wrote my last post, I received an email from a mom of a child who attended school with my daughter Katie for the past three years. &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/06/staring-into-the-abyss/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Always Something</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/03/its-always-something/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annie Sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dyslexia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In-home Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sensory Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transitions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past fall my daughter transferred back into our home school district. It’s a place that for whatever reason seems unable or unwilling to meet Katie’s needs. So now both she and I are in the throes of yet another &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2016/03/its-always-something/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Slippery Legal Slope</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2015/10/a-slippery-legal-slope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acceptance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlington Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Behavioral Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bindu Pothen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compassion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inclusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kumaran Santhanam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marci Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parul Agrawal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Property Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Nuisance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa Clara County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunnyvale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tolerance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vidyut Gopa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A California lawsuit is working its way through the Santa Clara County court system that left me pretty much speechless when I learned of it. Two families are suing a third, claiming their autistic son is a public nuisance. At &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2015/10/a-slippery-legal-slope/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Middle School&#8211;An Update</title>
		<link>http://cynthiajpatton.com/2015/09/hello-middle-school-an-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia J. Patton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Annie Sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Behavioral Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter Katie has been in middle school a little over a week. I am happy to report that despite my initial fears, things appear to be working out. She had a great first day. A great first week, in &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://cynthiajpatton.com/2015/09/hello-middle-school-an-update/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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