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Autistic Staring Contest

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Submitted by Robin on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 6:17pm

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Bruno Bettleheim
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Jerry Boyle, better known as the lawyer who gets naked for political causes as part of T.H.O.N.G. (Topless Humans Organizing for Natural Genetics) has this story about how he learned to stare indefinitely without blinking. And how that changed one boy's life forever.

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Robin Amer is an artist and radio producer based in Chicago. Much of her work, including the hour-long documentary Reconstructing Providence, deals with the complex lives of post-industrial cities. Prior to joining Vocalo Robin was a producer for the public radio show Open Source in Boston and an artist-in-residence at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island.