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BLOG POST Where Distress Really Lives
There’s a question I’ve been asking for years, and I want to ask it here before I tell you anything about conference tickets or timings: Who taught you that your distress was your fault? Because someone did. Maybe it was a clinician who told you your anxiety was a “feature of your autism”, or a […] The post Your…
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