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Finding Peace
Rejection is something I feel acutely. The first time I remember feeling like I didn’t belong was when I was in Girl Scouts as a child. All the other girls seemed to just be able to speak the same language. I remember doing crafts to get a merit badge about horses. I was frustrated that…
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Curiosity and the Cat
If you have met me in person, you know I’m a big proponent of the benefits of therapy. I started treatment when I was nineteen and I’ve gone off and on since then. I always viewed it as getting heavy emotions and experiences off my chest. I would leave sessions feeling unburdened, and lighter. Saturday…
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Who’s Your Hero?
I heard something recently from a guest who was on The Daily Show while Leslie Jones was guest-hosting. One of her guests said something that has stuck with me. He said that anxiety cannot exist where there is faith. One of his coping mechanisms, when he gets overwhelmed, is to tell himself what he called…
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The Royal Family is just a family
Anyone who knows me will know I’m obsessed with the British royal family. I will never forget the wedding of William and Kate, which took place during my freshman year of high school. My computer science teacher shared a classroom with another teacher who played the wedding for us and I was thrilled. While I…
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Healing from Trauma
I’ve been thinking recently about how I view trauma. Growing up I always viewed trauma as something that victims of domestic violence or veterans of war exclusively experienced. I would use this definition to tell myself that whatever I was experiencing or had experienced wasn’t that bad. It’s only recently that I’ve started re-examining events…
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Happy New Year!
I’ve been confronting a lot of uncomfortable emotions lately. I classify painful or unpleasant emotions as sadness, anger, disappointment, or anything else that accompanies a sad or disheartening experience. When I stopped relying on food to dull my feelings, I realized how much I’d been burying. Now that I feel these emotions, I’m trying different…
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Practicing Empathy
I don’t normally venture into controversial topics and I do not like talking about politics even with people that I agree with. There is a war regarding the holidays I was unaware of how strongly people felt about it until recently. The war I’m referring to is over whether to say “Merry Christmas” or “Happy…
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Christmas Party
I attended my work Christmas party this past week. I haven’t been to a large number of holiday parties in my life and I wasn’t sure what to expect. The best parties I’d experienced up until this year were when I worked at Publix. The store manager would barbecue and we would have baking competitions.…
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My Review of Love on the Spectrum
I’m going to start this rant/review by saying that it’s been a while since I watched Love on the Spectrum. I thought this might be a good time for me to comment as I’m in a newish relationship. My opinion is not the only opinion of the Autism community on the show, these are simply…
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Final Bit of Healing
I recently started a regular meditation practice. When I say recent, i mean within the last week. I haven’t talked a lot about my eating disorder because I’ve felt a lot of shame. By avoiding thinking about the roots of my disordered eating, I avoided healing from it too. As an adult, I now realize…
Living on the Spectrum 