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From The Blog
Pathological Demand Avoidance: Christmas Edition
I mostly enjoy being autistic. I appreciate the quirks in how I perceive the world, even though I often feel out of step with the people around me, and moreso during the Christmas season. There is one aspect of my autistic experience that I could do without and that’s Pathological Demand Avoidance. Also known as…
Camp Meetings and Community
One of the first things I did when we arrived in North Carolina was attend a Friday night camp meeting. I remember some of this state’s idiosyncrasies from when I lived here during my teenage years, like Cheerwine and liver mush, but I had never heard of camp meetings. A bit of googling led me…
Millennial and House Hunting , Part 1: Accepting Reality
I never really expected that I’d buy a house. As a millennial in my mid-thirties, the economy has been in a series of sharp upswings and downswings since I was a teenager. The attacks on 9/11 changed everything seemingly overnight; in high school, I watched as friends’ parents were laid off from their manufacturing jobs;…
Joyce Nash Writes 