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Book cover for Something That May Shock and Discredit You (A Collection of Essays and Observations)
I have been, and sort of am, a good woman. I could be, and sort of am, a good man. Neither option is forbidden to me, and I don’t believe there is an inherent virtue in, I don’t know, “lifelong gender consistency.” One is not better or ...more
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Gabor Maté
“At each moment the state of self is constructed, from the ground up,” writes Antonio Damasio. “It is an evanescent reference state, so continuously and consistently reconstructed that the owner never knows it is being remade unless something goes wrong with the remaking.”
Gabor Maté, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

Gabor Maté
“There is no path toward oneself that leads away from the pain.”
Gabor Maté, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

RuPaul
“We often play small, so as not to threaten other people. We don’t want to intimidate them by our brightness, but the truth is, you do them and yourself a disservice by dimming what you’ve been given—your intelligence, your light. Those are your gifts.”
RuPaul, GuRu

John Hornor Jacobs
“We are bits of meat in a watery broth. Sweet-tallow candles waiting to be lit. Pleasure makes us numb, stupid, inert. Pain sparks our wicks. The light and scent of pain—the greater the better—draws the attention of the mighty. The prodigious. The vast and numberless. And that frisson, between the pain, the effluent release of it, and the intention of the deliverers and emissaries, brings forth the miasma.”
John Hornor Jacobs, A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

Gabor Maté
“Sensitive children come to be called “difficult” because adults have trouble understanding their temperament and because parenting methods that work with other children are frustratingly inadequate with this group.”
Gabor Maté, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

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