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How to Deal with Sensory Overload as a Sensitive Person

By Jenara Nerenberg — 2020

Sometimes it feels like the world wasn’t designed for sensitive people. Here are ways to take care of yourself.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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What’s It Like to See Ideas as Shapes?

Thoughts and feelings are constellations in the mind of a man with a rare form of synesthesia.

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Alissa Greenberg
2016
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‘No One’s Ever Talked to Me About This Before’

Social media creators are helping women and people of color identify possible symptoms of A.D.H.D., a disorder most often diagnosed in white boys.

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Nicole Clark
2021
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We Need to Talk About ADHD Stigma in BIPOC Communities

Battling stigma is nothing new in the ADHD community. In Black and other marginalized communities, it abounds—outside and, even worse, inside Black families. But reducing stigma in BIPOC communities is not all on us.

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Evelyn Polk Green
2022
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How Getting Hit by Lightning Changed a Woman’s Synesthesia

Head trauma made her see strange colors, even ones that are “not even real.”

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Sarah Zhang
2017
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Billie Eilish Says Her Synethesia Inspires Her Creative Process

She also told Jimmy Fallon he appears to her as a “vertical brown rectangle.”

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Bria McNeal
2021
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The Beauty of Crossed Brain Wires

Synesthesia makes ordinary life marvelous.

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Sidney Perkowitz
2021
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Do People with Synethesia Draw Out Expression in the Autistic?

Anecdotal observations from my own dealings.

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Maureen Seaberg
2021
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Synesthesia

It is estimated that approximately 3 to 5 percent of the population has some form of synesthesia and that women are more likely to become synesthetes than men.

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Psychology Today Staff
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ADHD and Depression: How to Recognize and Manage Both

ADHD and depression are commonly coexisting conditions with some overlapping symptoms. The link between the two is complex.

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Michelle Pugle
2021
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The Challenges of Living with High-Functioning Autism

In the autism community, functioning labels are discouraged because they can be misleading. A person can be able to function independently in some areas but require significant support in others. People labeled as high functioning can often have significant needs that are overlooked.

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Lisa Jo Rudy
2022
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