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Amanda Baggs is an
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activist. In January 2007 she published a video on
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entitled
In My Language describing her experiences as an
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person, which became the subject of several articles on
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. She also guest-blogged about her video on
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's blog and answered questions from the audience via email.
About her video, Amanda Baggs writes:
On CNN,
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