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Stages Of Grief

Kai — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 08:10:00 +0000

It’s funny, but I never considered myself someone who would be very much affected by grief. I always felt, because I have been through so much trauma and because I have faced death before, I was the kind of person who could handle losing people – I would be strong enough to deal with the process of grief. I would …

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Could It Be Stress?

Kai — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 08:10:10 +0000

What? Me? No. No way. I can’t be stressed. I just have a lot right now, a lot of pressure. Once I get past this everything will be fine. I’ll be fine. I am fine. Have you ever said that knowing full well that it was a lie? I guess we all have. I’ve been trying to write a post …

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Me & Exam Anxiety

Kai — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 08:18:32 +0000

Exams. We all have to go through them one way or another. Some can breeze through them like nothing – some, who have never opened a book the entire year and missed most classes, will go into that exam room and come out with an A+ like it is nothing. Then again, there are some who study every day of …

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When Therapy Goes Wrong

Kai — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:30:00 +0000

How often have you gone to some specialist because you needed help, only to be reduced to a questionnaire? If all it takes to diagnose someone or decide what support is needed is to fill out a form, why aren’t we all doing it on our own? The person asking the questions really doesn’t know if we are lying or …

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When All You Want to Do Is Hide

Kai — Wed, 12 May 2021 11:16:00 +0000

I am so very lucky, so very privileged and that makes me feel even worse sometimes. There are times, like these days, when all I want to do is to hide somewhere. To go into hibernation like a bear and not return until after winter has ended and everything begins anew. Right now, it feels a lot like wintertime, in …

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More on the Wrong Kind of Help

Kai — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000

Yeah, so it’s been a while since I was able to keep a regular posting schedule and it actually really frustrates me. I need to write to feel good, so you can probably guess, I’ve been quite frustrated for a while. Starting something new is always difficult and I was fully prepared for that – or I thought that I …

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The Wrong Kind of Help

Kai — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:15:41 +0000

I have already said this several times over the last couple of years, but many of us on the spectrum need support in some way to be able to live relatively independently. To some it may appear like we can live independently without any “real problems” and this is in some way, I guess, true. In some way, however, it’s …

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