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Jesse Meadows
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Re-politicizing mental illness and embracing the weird

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Why You Have to Keep Moving

on ADHD and that restless feeling

They say it feels like being driven by a motor, but that’s not exactly right. More like being driven to pack a bag every time you hit the doldrums of autopilot, when your brain stops recording the colors y...

10 days ago
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"Let me trust in my disabled pleasure practices"

I’m super excited to share an incredible project with you from the queer mental health collective misery: a crowd-sourced crip community anti-cookbook edited by Aisha Mirza, with afterword by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. It’s choose-yo...

a month ago
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The Austerity Politics of Doubting Your Autism Diagnosis

PLUS: 3 good nonfiction books and all the horror I've checked out from the library lately

Personally, I find much motivation to write in the fire of annoyance. Take, for example, this annoying personal essay in The Free Press by one Christ...

2 months ago
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Your Brain Is Not A Computer

Recently I wrote about knitting as a kind of attention through the lens of embodied cognition, and I liked it so much I adapted it into a video essay:

Much of it will sound familiar to my close readers, but I’ve added some things, too: li...

2 months ago
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The Thrill of Being In Motion

lexapro, month three: moving back to the city and de-influencing home ownership

Sorry for writing less lately, the SSRIs have got me packing boxes and selling all my stuff on the internet!

2 months ago
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