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Most of what she’s saying is completely disjointed, snippets of a lifetime of conversations shuffled and continually remixed. I’m delighted by how talkative she, but it’s hard to follow. I’m just trying to be agreeable and respond. Mom: … and then there’s you, saying mmhmm. Me:
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Finished Unmasking Autism on the road yesterday. Amazing. I’ve been stumbling towards unmasking for years, and now I feel like I’ve found a map.
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Someone yells behind us to a nurse on the other side of the room, “What’s the code for the door?” “452”, the nurse yells back. “Yeah, that’s right,” Mom says to me. “You know the code for the door? I don’t think you are supposed to know.
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Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. —William Hazlitt
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Ronny: Who is this? Me: This is Peg Lancaster, my mother. Ronny (is hard of hearing): WHO? Me: Her name is Peg Lancaster. Ronny: Oh, thank you, I forgot. Mom (brightly): So did I!
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Fresh whipped cream cheese, The Hub, Danville, Kentucky
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“Every day, in all our conversations, we are constantly training and being trained by each other in this manner, and yet we are never conscious of it” Excerpt From: Jaynes, Julian. “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (hmhbooks.com), 2000-08-15.
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People with an anxious attachment style actively seek closeness and are afraid of losing it, and have a harder time trusting and knowing their partner will be there for them The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture
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Ladora Rest Area, I80 East, Iowa
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“There are thus always two terms in a metaphor, the thing to be described, which I shall call the metaphrand, and the thing or relation used to elucidate it, which I shall call the metaphier. A metaphor is always a known metaphier operating on a less known metaphrand” Excerpt From:
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So I started to do something I regret in hindsight, I started to become an unwanted guest. This is not something I planned or realized at first, but I found out in an extremely awkward way. One night, after spending MANY days pretty much camped out at this friend’s
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Julian Jaynes coined a useful term in 1976 which I wish had gained currency before Jerry Fodor came out with The Modularity of Mind in 1983, because I think it captures all the useful aspects of the notion of "mental modules" without any of the misleading connotations. He