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1) Honestly, I was expecting this to be more like Designing Your Life
2) Amelia Earhart shows us "success is guaranteed even if you don’t know what it looks like"?? Really??? Out of all the examples you could have chosen?????

Lots in this section about elucidating mechanisms and possible causes for narcolepsy. Now we're getting into the history of medications like modafinil. It's definitely an interesting historical time to get an IH diagnosis.

This chapter resonates so much that I fell asleep while reading it. /genuine, non-disparaging


"The hypothalamus appears to be the site where many forces—temperature, sensory stimulation, attention, extended time awake, or recent food consumption—engage in a tug of war over sleepiness"

Me and my hypothalamus having a party over here

"most reported a delay of three or more years between symptom onset and diagnosis" ✅

"at least three doctors were seen before a correct diagnosis." ✅

"Common misdiagnoses were sleep apnea, depression ✅, blood pressure dysregulation, iron deficiency, and more subjective judgments: 'burnout,' ✅ 'psychosomatic,' ✅ and 'puberty related.'"

"a striking years-long delay ... in diagnosis among women compared with men"

I'm enjoying reading about all of the different research studies that have been done trying to figure out causes of IH (or mechanisms of sleepiness in general). It's interesting biology and science history

It's a book about me! 🥰

Relatable:
"Her doctors diagnosed her with something called idiopathic hypersomnia. Anna interpreted this mouthful as 'she sleeps a lot and we don’t know why.' "
"she told herself that she was working hard and her body needed extra rest. ... sleep was encroaching upon her life."
MSLT as "the gateway through which they had to travel to receive their diagnosis"

Am learning a lot, too.

Oh shit. I'm into this now

Mostly been the intro so far, which is more geared towards managers/the corporate world. Looking forward to digging more into the questions.

Finished Vol 6 and 7 on 4/5/25. Waiting for Vol 8 from the library

"A lot of people share this dream to live with friends as they age. In 2011, a group of eight friends had an architect design a compound of tiny homes for them to retire in together, balancing their desire for both privacy and shared space. They called this community on the Llano River in Texas the “Llano exit strategy”; the press dubbed it “Bestie Row.” "

"The legendary white middle-class family of the 1950s,” the historian Elaine Tyler May writes, “was not, as common wisdom tells us, the last gasp of ‘traditional’ family life with roots deep in the past." ... Despite being an anomaly, this period has become the source of so much contemporary nostalgia and the yardstick against which other families are now measured.

"As Chen argues in Ace, “there is overlap and no clean separation” between romantic love and platonic love. You could say romantic relationships and platonic partnerships, too, bear a family resemblance."
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"Romantic relationships may only bear a family resemblance to one another, but there’s a common factor that I think explains their privileged status today ... the value of having a long-term teammate."

"Sissix cupped her palm, flipped it and spread her claws, even though she knew Rosemary would not understand the gesture. Tresha. It was the thankful, humble, vulnerable feeling that came after someone saw a truth in you, something they had discovered just by watching, something that you did not admit often to yourself."

"You’re trying to be someone good." 🥲

So far, exactly what I was hoping for

Second book I've read in a row that's dedicated to me! 😉

I love this book. 🥺

"That was what she loved about working with sixteen-year-olds; at turns, they watched both Euphoria and SpongeBob, tried to snort aspirin in the back of your classroom, and sang ridiculous nursery rhymes like innocent children at recess. They were goofy and weird, which meant she could be goofy and weird, too."

This is extremely accurate.

And hits me right in the feels. Hope I can handle both MCs being teachers

In the limbo between "why is this book so long" and "thank goodness this book is so long"