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The World Is Too Loud: On Being a Writer with Misophonia

By Caoilinn Hughes — 2018

My brain processes your pen clicking as a threat to my survival. The overwhelming urge to punch someone in the mouth and/or to flee is typical. How does having this hypersensitive ear affect my writing life? What habits have I developed on account of or in response to this relationship with the aural?

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Advice for Artists Whose Parents Want Them to Be Engineers

How could I come home to my refugee parents, who worked seven days a week in their grocery store, and tell them that I wanted to read Jane Austen and the Romantic poets, and major in English, a language they didn’t speak in their own home?

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Viet Thanh Nguyen
2021
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What to Do When Your Parents Don’t Support You Becoming an Artist

I was one year into my Biology degree when I realized my passion in life was art. However, I knew my parents wouldn’t approve of me being an artist. If you’re on the same boat, keep reading.

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Lucia
2000
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