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Autistic Strengths and Contributions
Your world would be very different if we weren’t in it.
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Encountering Fame
I always walk away ever-so-slightly disappointed.
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My 2000th Blog Post
Well, holy moly! When I started this daily blog back on December 1, 2012, I would have never guessed that I’d still be going strong 2000 posts later. It’s hard to believe I’ve had 2000 things to say, and that I’m rapidly approaching 200,000 views by 110,000 visitors. A conservative estimate suggests I’ve written over…
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They Come in Threes…
Whenever someone really famous dies, I sort of brace for impact. Inevitably, someone will say, ominously, “They come in threes, you know.” And sure enough, it would seem that more prominent people die in quick succession. It was only today that I really bothered to give that statement any thought. How arrogant. How judgmental. Who…
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What’s Your Story?
Every single person on this planet, no matter how dull, has most likely experienced something phenomenal at least once in their lives. Maybe they’ve been present for something historic, or met someone famous, or seen something that’s unexplainable or life-changing. Perhaps they themselves have set things in motion that have caused something amazing to occur.…
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Fame
My friend Carole quoted a show called the Vampire Mob the other day. “We are all famous to a few people.” Now, I’ve never been a big follower of this whole vampire phenomenon, but it appears that pearls of wisdom can be found just about anywhere. This had me thinking about the concept of fame.…
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The Dinner Party
A friend and I have this little game we like to play. If you could invite 10 people, living or dead, to your house for a dinner party, who would you choose? This is an interesting thought experiment. It makes you think about the questions you’d like to ask. It makes you examine closely the…
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Palliative Measures for Fame
When Diana married Prince Charles, I was a junior in high school. All the girls around me were starry eyed and envious of her. Not me. I couldn’t imagine a worse fate than being thrust headlong into the public eye with no respite for the rest of your life. No privacy. No quiet. No way…