þÿ<html> <title>Asperger Women Association</title> <style type="text/css">{ } body { scrollbar-arrow-color: #FFFFC1; scrollbar-base-color: #54B7B7; scrollbar-face-color: #54B7B7; scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFC1; scrollbar-shadow-color: #1780AF; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #54B7B7; scrollbar-track-color: #54B7B7; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #1780AF; } .head{ background: #1254A2; border-bottom:0px dashed #1254A2; color:#FFFFC1; font-weight:none; font-size:12pt; font-family:century gothic; text-align:center; width:100%} A:link {color: #FFFFC1; text-decoration: none;} A:visited {color: #FFFFC1; text-decoration: none;} A:active {color: #FFFFC1; text-decoration: none;} a:hover {color: #1780AF; text-decoration: underline overline;} body {background-color: #1254A2; background-image: url(); background-attachment: scroll; background-repeat: yes; font-family: times; color: #FFFFC1; letter-spacing: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;} h1 {font-family: Times; text-transform: none; font-size: 18px; font-style:italic; color: #FFFFC1; letter-spacing: 1px; font-weight: normal; border-bottom:1px solid #1780AF; text-align:left; line-height: 22px} </style> </head> <body> <img src="layout6.jpg" style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:0"> <div style="position:absolute; top: 55px; left: 104px;overflow: auto; width: 550px; height: 21px; "> <center> <b> &middot; <a href="index.html">Grown Ups Page</a> &middot; <a href="fairytales.html">Fairy Tales</a> &middot; <a href="kidvideos.html">Videos</a> &middot; <a href="kidpics.html">Pictures</a> &middot; <a href="myname.html">My Name Is...</a> &middot; <a href="stories.html">Stories</a> &middot; <a href="share.html">Share</a> &middot; </b> </center> </div> <div style="position:absolute; top: 107; left: 56;overflow: auto; width: 789; height: 430; "> <h1>Stories</h1> <b>"Excuse me, She's Autistic"<br> by Angela Utley</b><br> <center> (In the store we wait in line<br> (I and my Cinderella girl of mine<br> (She spins, twirls, and her  hands make gestures<br> (All in her light blue Cinderella gown <br><br> ( (Other mothers are there<br> (The glares have began<br> (Do they not know how precious she is?<br> (How much love is contained in her little body?<br> (Just twirling to get out?<br><br> ( (My child is getting louder<br> (shrill sound pierce the air<br> (The glares demand words<br> (My declaration: "Excuse me she's  Autistic"<br> (Faces relax -but the glares remain<br><br> ( (We move up in line<br> (why can't we in life<br> (Somehow there has to be compromise<br> (How I long for acceptance <br> ( for my Cinderella girl of mine.<br> </center> <i>Angela Utley, mother of an aspie girl</i> <h1> </div> </body> </html>