This is so…me.
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To calm my mind, I took off for the beach on Sunday. The election has been one constant mind-sucking hyperfocused long haul. Being able to take pictures, listen to the surf, and enjoy the post-storm turbulence was a good thing for me to do.
Hyperfocus like I’ve had for almost a year is not a particularly [...]
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The difference between this:
and this?
Attention. Specifically, listening. Had I not been lost in the challenge of getting picture number one, I would have known that picture number two posed a serious danger to me, the camera, and my current state of dry.
But I wasn’t. So at the point where I should have been stepping [...]
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Although I’ve stayed outside of the autism/vaccination debate, make no mistake: I do not believe vaccinations cause autism, but I do believe there is a group hysteria around the topic that’s fueled by some clever, smart, vocal parties who have a vested interest in getting others on the bandwagon.
Consider Jenny McCarthy, who would love to [...]
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I wasn’t exactly happy to read that Shire had raised the price of Adderall XR by 33.5%, following the trend of other pharmas to raise prices on medications that are shown to be effective and are often prescribed.
According to the WSJ article, the higher prices are supposed to force patients to new medications [...]
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Congratulations to everyone who blogged these ads and signed the petition. The NYU Child Study Center has decided to pull the ads. From the WSJ Health Blog:
Today, Koplewicz told the Health Blog that he decided to pull the ads because “the debate began to become focused on the ads themselves” rather than on [...]
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Nor am I a “hostage”. Calling children who have psychiatric and neurobehavioral disorders “hostages” is insulting and offensive. Like Katherine, I have to wonder what the hell they were thinking. This ad is utterly offensive. It emphasizes all the negative, none of the positive.
My first thought was that the NYU Child [...]
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While I was watching my beautiful 13-year old girl dance last Friday, the Megan Meier story hit the Internet. Hard. It hit me hard, too. Right in the gut, because I walked in that 13-year old’s ADHD depressed shoes many years ago and could feel what she felt, just reading the third-hand accounts.
Long story [...]
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I’m sorry, but I would never do this, no matter how much I wanted to support the Autism Network.
For starters, it would completely embarrass all of my kids, no matter what their age. And second, it reminds me of those awful bumper stickers about “my child being student of the month”, etc. in [...]
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…is it so difficult to write after saying I’ll post one blog post a day for a month which is nothing different than I normally do? It could be that I’ve been off meds this weekend because I didn’t get to the doctor’s office to pick up the scripts in time, which also means [...]
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