#Childhood

So, the Connery era of Bond is over for me in this little rewatch (well, at least until I get to NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN). Do I have the heart
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Missouri, I'm going to have a lot to say about the proposed school closures in St. Louis City and why we all should care, whether you live in an urban
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I wasn't born with epilepsy. My family didn't even know what it was at the time. One day my parents just found me in my cot shaking & foam coming
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Why do I support RB Leipzig?[THREAD] As many of you guys know im a supporter for the East German football club RB Leipzig. Many of you asked me how I
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A 21-Tweet summary of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆, by @morganhousel. 1/21A genius with poor emotional control can be a financial disaster. An ordinary person with a handful of behavior
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Asked therapist if I'm a good person (if we are, plural). Uh, she didn't answer. And that helped! A thread: Many trauma survivors believe or fear we are fundamentally bad.
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Over two months ago I received notice that as of today I will be promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. This is one of those important milestones for anyone in
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@jacobsgoldin and I have a new working paper that looks at which children benefit from the Child Tax Credit and which do not.Ungated version here: http://papers.nber.org/tmp/63325-w27940.pdfA thread on some of
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Thread about my adult autism assessment: I’ve seen questions on Twitter about the process of getting an autism assessment as an adult. I thought I’d share my experience for anyone
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A thread about science. “Science is a verb”. /threadhttps://twitter.com/JaeB_so_nasty/status/1138961066153644033 People talk about science as if it’s a body, an organisation :“Scientists say”, “the science says”, “we don’t
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1/ In 2013 people started to receive links over email to "find time" in someone's calendar vs. scheduling over email. Calendly, the startup behind the links, raised $350 million at
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People sometimes ask me if it was worth getting an autism diagnosis so late in life. Two years on I’m convinced it was, and this is why. #Thread #AllAutistics #AutisticElders#OlderAutistics#ActuallyAutistic
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Imagine living your live for 30+ years, you went to school, paid for most of it yourself. You graduated successfully, speaks 3 languages.You then went on to become a successful
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Ok so here are my thoughts on #bnha302 and some of the takes I see coming out of it. The first thing I wanted to talk about is how people
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over the past few months on anitwt ive noticed a trend of non-asians adopting traditional asian names as aliases. obviously this doesn't seem harmful at first glance, but it's actually
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This tweet is still going, which pleases me greatly, and so I thought I’d provide some personal context for it.https://twitter.com/emilydwarfield/status/1302274601695797254 I grew up middle class, at certain points even upper
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