Big feelings may be harder for monotropic people to handle. And if you have significant sensory sensitivity, the physical sensations can be overwhelming as well.

This episode covers some of the ways I've been approaching grief and helplessness about Gaza.

Links mentioned in show:

1. Episode 15, How Feelings Work
2. Lisa Feldman Barrett's book How Emotions Are Made
3. Al Jazeera article, ‘It’s not human’: What a French doctor saw in Gaza as Israel invaded Rafah
4. Macklemore song Hind's Hall
5. Sign up for General Strike in US!

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You'll rarely catch me using the term "hack." But this concept around demand avoidance is working great for me, so far...

TLDR: Shortcutting the PDA brain's ability to use pattern recognition to avoid tasks early in a sequence.

Here's the Instagram video by Kristy Forbes that inspired this episode.

While she suggests introducing new sensory details, I'm going the route of sincerely telling myself that we don't need to do the final thing. We're just gonna do this step.

Note: even if this or Kristy's suggestion works for you, there's a good chance you'll get used to it in some form eventually! And that's okay. Sometimes we just have to keep finding new ways to work with our pattern-seeking brains.

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Wow, over 100K listens! People talk a lot about feeling safe being visible—being seen and heard either literally or through putting your work into the world.

While I've done a lot of personal work being comfortable while visible, the Guardian article was a huge bump in visibility. To be fair, the "bad day" I reference was also the kidney infection kicking into full gear (see "Don't Die" a couple episodes ago).

It's also a lot easier to be "brave" being visible when you get almost entirely positive feedback! That usually changes with more visibility.

Enjoying this particular phase and trying not to worry about the next one.

The Guardian article, "The sudden rise of AuDHD"

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