Learning To Love Your Monsters ( Not Your Demons) Part I
Episode description
I recently introduced you to my hero Rebekah where we discussed the differences in care across cultures and you should definitely give it a listen if you haven’t already. Today I want you to meet a monster of mine. Now I’d like to acknowledge you shouldn’t call other kids on the playground a monster, so don’t try that one at home. However, I emphatically love using metaphors in daily life. So let me tell you what a “monster” is to me, and perhaps a few people might come to mind in your own life. A monster is someone that seems to crush life with seemingly little to no effort. They might be the popular kid in school, or the person that always aces their O-Chem labs. Whatever your monster seems to do flawlessly, they often make you anxious because they’re just— so— good at it all. At least that was how I felt.
In today’s episode of Hacking Autism, I interview one of many monsters in my life. We dialogue about the evolution of our friendship which started in angst and trepidation to where we are now close friends that no longer have a barrier of fear between us. This episode’s theme was a life lesson evolving over the course of 9 years, and I think everyone could benefit from giving this a listen. This episode is longer than usual, but how often do you get almost a decade wisdom distilled into an hour?
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