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Asperger's at work: Why I need a sick day to register my car.

Penelope Trunk

I have found, in adult life, that bureaucracy only gets deeper and deeper, and for someone like me, with Asperger Syndrome, the rules, numbers and conversations that bureaucracy entails is completely overwhelming: IRS, health insurance, 401Ks, I actually have no idea how people cope with this stuff. It’s always the fat people who say that.

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The Internet has created a generation of great writers | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

It’s the same situation today in that the best way to have a population of good writers is for people to write constantly, in the language that is theirs, so that they are great at expressing themselves. The people who are complaining that no one can write anymore are the same ones who are stressed about information overload.

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Martin Luther King Day Special: Racism is alive and kicking.

Penelope Trunk

He said, “City people probably think so. Before there were animals there was the flag, rising above the dirt ring, and the announcer saying everyone should sing the Star Spangled Banner to honor “the flag that protects our troops, and our churches and our great country.” But most farmers don’t.” I looked at the kids.

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