7 Signs Someone May Have Asperger's According to Experts - Eat This Not That

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Me, I've been preparing to flee since I was 15. My RealID drivers license and my passport are up to date. I have an overnight "go bag" always packed. I periodically go through in my mind what I could fit into my regularly gassed-up car if I had to leave quickly. I've done this for years only partly because of natural disasters - fire, flood, ( Read more... )

I have created a handful of personal aphorisms in my many years on Planet Earth. One of the oldest is this: "Very few relationships are built to last forever."

I mention it because I now am on the losing side of those endings. I'm talking about people with whom I have been - or had been - close friends for years, even decades. There has never been ( Read more... )

I have heard of this recent animated film, and heard good things about it. Having read the referenced review/analysis here, I now really want to see it. I have long liked animated films; in happier days, I used to take a certain young person to see them in movie theaters, sometimes even driving long distances to do so.

In "Encanto," the problem of ( Read more... )

Tis the season to re-post this Xmas story . . .



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The only ones I ever truly loved or who ever truly loved me are either dead, at least 1,000 miles away or have completely rejected me or at least neglected me.

I didn't feel that way yesterday. I hope I don't feel this way tomorrow. But I feel that way this afternoon/evening, so I think I'll just spend it on the Internet, listening to music and ( Read more... )

It is worth your while to read this introduction/review of an amazing mash-up that - understood properly - is a powerful anti-rape anthem out of New Zealand.

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"When people say that depression will go away if you throw yourself into work, it’s a stupid thing to say, yes. It comes from an entitled place of not knowing what depression feels like, yes. But it’s what my father said to me, and it saved me then just as much it is saving me now."

- from an essay by India-born writer Vijeta Kumar


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The memorial one week ago - the technical term for the Jewish version of that is called an unveiling - actually went very well once we actually got to it.

I did it as a creative service (including a 16-page written/printed/bound program) more than as a religious one, first because most folks there were not Jewish, and second because I am a creative ( Read more... )

I was furious last week that one of my oldest friends first equivocated about, then accepted, then declined to attend my father's memorial (set for next month).

I wrote back to him that if circumstances evolved or if he changed his mind, he still would be welcome to attend even at the last minute.

I thought his reasons were shallow or trivial. I ( Read more... )