“I didn’t think about those nachos even once. I had never experienced anything like it. Is this, I asked my friends, how it feels to be normal?”
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Sleeping Beauty
“I was seven when I became aware of my longing for beautiful girls.”
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Rachel Aviv: Mother and Daughter
“An interview with the author of ‘Strangers to Ourselves’—and now, ‘You Won’t Get Free of It.'”
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Why Are We So Afraid of Conversation?
“To let yourself be transformed by what the other person has to say.”
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The Hypercurious Mind
“ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information.”
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The Back Meets the Nose
“It felt like a stabbing. It felt like a burning. It felt like a dull ache, then a sharp one, then it radiated all the way down.”
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What I Found When I Tried to Walk Across Dallas in a Day
“Determined to find adventure in my own backyard, I tramped across my famously pedestrian-averse hometown. The most memorable part turned out to be the serendipitous encounters with neighbors I met along the way.”
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Thank You for Finding Me
As a teenager, I met a stranger who changed the course of my life. Twenty years later, I went looking for him.
