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What I’d like you to consider doing: write a poem, letter, essay, paragraph, sentence, bullet list or record a video or audio statement or create a work of art or music or photography—in some way express yourself to others on this theme: how I have learned to take
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A useful trick to change the view of your tasks in the iOS version of OmniFocus is to expand or collapse the visible groups. I hadn’t really thought of it as a trick, but it does seem useful. I mostly use it in Forecast, to get to the lower
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Have you heard about Alexithymia? Primary alexithymia is a lifelong condition, caused by childhood trauma or negative primary caregivers interactions. So primary alexithymia develops early, and becomes molded during childhood and early adult years as personality traits. Hence primary
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Is there such a thing as a weighted hoodie? I feel like that's what I need right now.
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I took my phone out of its charging case to use the headphone jack, and I'm absolutely delighted with how thin and light it is. It's too bad that the watch and the AirPods drain the battery on the phone so quickly.
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Some 2,000 years ago, the Ancient Greek scholar Hippocrates argued that all ailments, including mental illnesses such as melancholia, could be explained by imbalances in the four bodily fluids, or “humors.” Today, most of us like to think we know better: Depression—our term for melancholia—is caused by
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"The ultimate success would be to pursue passions not according to the measurements of [what is regarded as 'normal'], but according to intrinsic autistic functionality. It would be to find your 'self' and to be accepting and respectful of it." Sounds easy enough. It
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It looks like we're going to be eating a lot of beans in the near future. Beans always make me think of the movie, East of Eden, starring James Dean. I'm sad to say I've never read the novel. Probably should get on that.
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I don't know what to make of what's going on right now. Honestly, the way things feel right now reminds me of the days after 9/11, or Columbine, or Waco, or the OKC Bombing. Something major is happening, but no one really knows anything, and
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Discovered that there is a publication called "Christian Surfer." Today's verbal stim will apparently be: "Onward, Christian surfers, marching as to shore…" #ActuallyAutistic
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Checking into Tumblr is like going back to your old college apartment and seeing how the neighborhood has been gentrified.
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The robins look cold and pissed off today. Flashback to a few weeks ago, someplace warm and lovely down south. A robin hops across a green lawn, eye to the ground. It spears a worm, and triumphantly holds it aloft. "That my friend, is a fine catch. A fine