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The Mystery of Why Some People Become Sudden Geniuses

By Zaria Gorvett — 2018

There’s mounting evidence that brain damage has the power to unlock extraordinary creative talents. What can this teach us about how geniuses are made?

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100+ Ways to Inspire Creative Thinking

As a writer, I am in constant search for inspiration. Sometimes it comes to me out of the blue, but for the most part, I have to work hard for it. If only the solution were as simple as flipping a switch! Having creativity exercises on deck might just serve to unleash your creativity.

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Anna
2021
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Social Problems: Understanding Emotions and Developing Talents

I put a great deal of emphasis on employment because I see so many very intelligent people with autism and Asperger's syndrome without satisfying jobs. A satisfying profession made life have meaning for me. I am what I do and think instead of what I feel.

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Temple Grandin
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The Greatest Challenge of Raising an Autistic Child as an Autistic Parent? The Ableist World We Live In

Being disabled means hundreds of thousands of people believe they always know better than you do.

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Lu Everman
2018
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Advice on Dire Diagnoses From a Survivor

With each diagnosis, knowing her life hung in the balance, she was “stunned, then anguished” and astonished by “how much energy it takes to get from the bad news to actually starting on the return path to health.”

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Jane E. Brody
2007
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How Does Acquiring a New Disability Affect Mental Health?

There’s no right or wrong trajectory for adapting to disability.

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s.e. smith
2018
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How People With Autism Forge Friendships

Most autistic people want to and can make friends, though their relationships often have a distinctive air.

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Lydia Denworth
2020
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Mental Disorder Within the Neurodiversity Paradigm

Can neurodiversity proponents keep the notion of mental pathology?

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Robert Chapman
2019
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Many Young Adults with Autism Also Have Mental Health Issues

“One of the biggest difficulties with transitioning to adulthood is trying to realize where you’ve been correct versus where you need to change, where the boundaries are between what you need to do to fit in and what other people need to do to accept certain things that are a part of who you...

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Tara Haelle
2017
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Poetry for Personal Power

The following interview is part of a “future of mental health” interview series. This series presents different points of view about what helps a person in distress.

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Corinna West
2021
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8 Signs You Have Creative Burnout—and It’s Affecting Your Mental Health

Creative burnout can happen to all of us, even those who consider themselves naturally creative people.

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Kyli Rodriguez-Cayro
2018
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