McShrunk

Autistic Spectrum

Definitions of behaviour become self‑fulfilling prophecies

Mar 11 • McShrunk

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Sleeping ok?

NOW FREE: When we wake up in the middle of the night, we could remind ourselves that this is what our ancestors had been doing for centuries.

Mar 4 • McShrunk

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February 2026

The Cursing Brain

A brain can't curse without a knowledge of what culture sees as a linguistic taboo

Feb 28 • McShrunk

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Killing the Dead

For the living to feel safe and secure, the dead have to die twice.

Feb 25 • McShrunk

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Anniversaries

When mourning is blocked, the body remembers

Feb 18 • McShrunk

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FAKE NEWS

The truth of history being suppressed by those in power.

Feb 14 • McShrunk

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Grief and Loss

A loss, after all, always requires some kind of recognition, some sense that it has been witnessed and made real.

Feb 11 • McShrunk

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January 2026

HANDS

There is nothing that takes me adequately out of myself

Jan 3 • McShrunk

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December 2025

Repetition

We repeat in order to reverse a situation where we might have had no control, and been purely passive

Dec 27, 2025 • McShrunk

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Hidden Violence

Speech does little more than keep the moment of death at bay

Dec 20, 2025 • McShrunk

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Fairy Tales and the Body

The secret doors, rooms, and cavities that appear in these tales are geographies of the body

Dec 13, 2025 • McShrunk

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Letting Go

The attention paid to grasping in early life has overshadowed the other manual activity that is learnt much later: the ability to let go

Dec 6, 2025 • McShrunk

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