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The Inverted Popularity of This Aspie’s Phobias and Philias, Part II: A Mathematical Analysis of My Phobias
First, here is where to find Part I of this post. In it, I explained the reasons for my view that my phobias are among the uncommon ones, while I actually like many things (such as mathematics, darkness, and spiders) … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, fear, mental health, philia, phobia
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The Inverted Popularity of This Aspie’s Phobias and Philias, Part I: An Explanation
The image above contains three colors: white, black, and red. The words appear in red because I see it as a color denoting positive or negative intensity, and phobias and philias are both certainly intense. To “see red,” I have … Continue reading
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Tagged Asperger's, Aspie, brotherly, english, fear, fraternal, Greek, healing, inverted, language, love, mental health, misnomer, philia, phobia, popular, popularity, sleep, therapeutic writing, therapy, unpopular, unpopularity, word
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The Physics of Cats, Copperheads, Centipedes, Catbounce, and Catbouncemax
Definition of catbouncemax (shortened form of “maximum catbounce”): for any particular cat, its catbouncemax is equal to the takeoff kinetic energy of that cat if it suddenly and unexpectedly finds itself face-to-face with an adult copperhead snake. I’ve actually seen … Continue reading
Phobias? What phobias?
It just occurred to me that there are an absurd number of common phobias, such as claustrophobia or acrophobia, for which I have the polar opposite — an unusual attraction to the commonly-feared thing or situation. (Since I am no stranger … Continue reading
Posted in Mental Health
Tagged anxiety, fear, mental health, mental illness, philia, phobia, words
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Thirteen Images, Each, of Jynx, the Black Kitten, on Two Hendecagonal Prisms
The above hendecagonal prism shows what Jynx is like when he’s in “kyperkitten” mode. (If you have a kitten, you know what that means.) It’s also rotating rapidly in an effort to make those who fear black cats, and/or the … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Life, Mathematics, Mental Health, Satire
Tagged black, black cat, cat, fear, geometry, irrarional, Jynx, kitten, luck, lucky, Mathematics, phobia, prism, rational, superstition, superstitious, thirteen, triskaidecaphobia, triskaidekaphobia, unlucky
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“Antisemitism” has become an inherently confusing word. Here’s how to fix this problem.
When referring to the Holocaust, it never caused confusion to refer to Nazis as “antisemitic.” German is not a Semitic language, and the non-Semite Nazis were trying to exterminate an ethnoreligious group, the Jews, who are a Semitic people. In … Continue reading
Posted in History, Life, Politics, Religion
Tagged antisemite, antisemitism, bigot, bigotry, fear, Gaza, Hamas, hate, hatred, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Jew, Jewish, Judaism, Judeophobia, language, Middle East, Muslim, news, religion, Semite, Semitic, words
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