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Sample of Previous Hero Psychology Blog Posts:

Repository for Thoughts and Writing About Writing: Rethinking the Hero Psychology Blog

Rethinking how I want to use this blog. I am a longtime fan of blogs and have been blogging regularly since 2005. Someday I may collect them all. I have been journaling regularly since 1993. I have a fantasy project of collecting all of those for some kind of grand retrospective character study of myself slash memory. Maybe an autoethnographic look at...something. I don’t know...a longitudinal autoethnographic study of how I've narrated and re-narrated myself across different life transitions.  I kind of love that, and it's very hero psychology-ish, but I'm going on a tangent. This blog space has mostly been just a second repository for the newsletter posts I have been doing, but that seems dumb. Why put the same content in two places? It is also potentially confusing for readers.  So, the newsletters will be more formal essays about hero psychology things, and this will be more about the things I am writing and thinking about related to my newsletter, my dissertation, AuDH...
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My Last Article Exploded...Which Brings All-New Possibilities...and Problems

A bit of an explosion for my latest newsletter essay that I did not expect, especially to that magnitude. I posted it in some autistic community Facebook groups, and the reception and engagement were beyond my expectations. I think I did expect it to resonate more, but not to the degree it did.  Take a look at how this week's newsletter compares to the prior two for an idea of the scope I am talking about: Feels good as hell. So I found my audience, it seems. Also, the response has opened possibilities beyond views and subscribers. The comments and feedback from so, so many people were honestly amazing. It was great to hear from and connect with fellow autistic travelers about their experiences as leaders, and I want to keep growing those connections and possibly even build a community for autistic leaders. Plus, these interactions may help inform my thinking for my dissertation in some way. Something I’m mulling over. But those possibilities also come with a cost. Responding itse...
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Autism and Autobiographical Memory: An Alliterative Revelation

Photo by  Kelly Sikkema  on  Unsplash In navigating my way through my ASD diagnosis, in weaving this newer revelation into my identity, my story, I am grasping and actively seeking answers, information, knowledge, etc., in that obsessive way Aspies can.  This fits quite well with my ongoing obsessions already. Identity, including narrative identity, has been a long-term research interest for me.   The intersection of story and self, in particular, resonates with me. Part of the reason I double majored in psychology and English. Story filled in aspects of the self I felt the science of psychology was not equipped to address (by the very nature of the scientific method, which I am a big fan of, don't get me wrong).  This led me to things like narrative psychology, narrative identity, and autobiographical memory.  I mention this as prelude to an article I came across that addresses some of the unique aspects of how autobiographical memory can presen...
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