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I Didn’t Know I Was Adopted For 13 Years
The clues were always there, but I never noticed. How I found out I was adopted was both odd and dramatic. Odd because I found out in a hotel room while the plumbing at home was being fixed. Dramatic...
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How I Came To Accept That I Don’t Fit In
I was born human, not sheep. I have never been the same as everyone else. When I was young I was happy with my own company, and when I moved out of home I was surprised at how ‘the pack’ behaved. They...
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3 Questions To Ask Yourself When Fear Holds You Back
What would it be like to live your life authentically? One of my life mentors, Russell, once posed three questions to me; he mentioned he’d read them in a book. I often ask myself these questions in...
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I’m Getting Tested For Bipolar Disorder This Week
It’s time to talk about mental health. Last week my therapist uttered the words I’ve spent my entire life evading. “We’re going to have to test you for bipolar.” The room immediately became thick with...
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Why Do I Feel Guilty When I’ve Done Nothing Wrong?
It’s just not fair. I found myself in a fluster yesterday. In fact, I’ve found myself in a fluster three times in the past two days, and each time it’s because I’ve felt guilty when I hadn’t actually...
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What Happened When I Stopped Taking Selfies
I calculated my selfies were taking around two to three hours a day. If I stare at my picture long enough, all of my positive features begin to fade to the background while my imperfections zoom in and...
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23 Excuses Every Introvert Has Used To Get Out Of Going Out
I think I’m coming down with something… Let’s face it, we’ve all made excuses, hell, told bald-faced lies even, to get out of doing stuff we have zero interest in participating in. But what happens...
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Why I Had To Break Up With Booze
I hate these blurred lines… Looking back, I should probably have stopped drinking a long time before I actually managed to crack it, but, like most people, I drank because it’s what people do. It’s so...
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The Art Of Escaping A Really Boring Conversation
Please tell me more about that time you invested in stocks and nothing happened… We’ve all been there. You love your grandfather dearly, but trying to end a phone call with him is more difficult than...
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Why I Let My Boss Emotionally Abuse Me For Three Years
He treated me like I was worthless. I read a statistic the other day that claimed more people leave their jobs because of a bad boss or manager, than because of the actual job itself, and that’s true...
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Why I Gave Up My Best Friend For My Boyfriend
When they fought over me, he won — and I lost. One of this year’s more jarring Super Bowl commercials came from the NO MORE project’s campaign against domestic violence and sexual assault. It’s a...
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The Endless Pursuit Of Overcoming Fear
Check yourself before you wreck yourself. If I let fear rule me, I would never leave the house. I overthink everything, I try to plan for things that haven’t even happened yet, and I get worked up over...
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I Was Banned From Prom Because I Had a Same Sex Date
The staff made it clear my sexual orientation should be kept hidden. I’m constantly amazed by the leaps and bounds we’ve made in the last decade when it comes to not just legal but social acceptance of...
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How I Forgot Myself And Ended Up With A Miserable UTI
Their worth is in their suffering — and in the praise that’s a by-product of it. I smell bleach. It’s coming from the laundry room, which is right next to my bedroom, where I am, on my bed, propped up...
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I Get More Action Since Gaining Weight Than I Ever Did Skinny
Turns out it really is what’s on the inside that matters most. Four years ago I weighed 33 pounds less than I do now; I was a size 2. Today, however, I’m a confident and happy size 8. You’d assume the...
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How I Became Anorexic Without Even Knowing It
Starvation became a compulsion. When people picture an eating disorder, they often imagine shocking behaviors that deviate wildly from normal eating. But our society’s definition of “normal,”...
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Why I Never Reported Being Raped
I couldn’t speak up then, but I have to now. In my imagination, the first question the police ask me is, what was I was doing at a party where I didn’t know anyone? My answer sounds like an indictment:...
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I Read These Relationship Self-Help Books So You Don’t Have To
Books are cheaper than therapy. Ever since I read my mom’s copy of the M. Scott Peck classic, The Road Less Traveled in third grade, I’ve been obsessed with self-help books. And having weathered my...
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What My Life’s Been Like As An Intersex Female
I just consider myself a woman in the absence of a uterus and ovaries. While it could be easy to lie to myself and pretend I’m just a ‘normal’ cis-gender woman (a person whose self-identity conforms...
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My First Abortion Was As Horrific As You Thought It’d Be
They can scrape out your insides but can’t offer an Advil? I was 17, in a fairly long-term relationship for that age (two years), and my periods that used to visit for 12 days at a time hadn’t come for...
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