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Why I Believe Our Autistic Children Are Earth Angels
He was just a boy, a little boy, my Elijah, when he insisted he was an angel receiving his wings. Of course, I chalked it all up to a child with an overactive imagination, but the mother in me listened while he told his tale. "I feel them trying to push through my back," he cried joyously, lifting his shirt, and directing my attention a few inches below his shoulder blades.
By Marilyn Glover10 months ago in Psyche
Soviet/Russian INFJ Maxim Gorky's The Life of Klim Samgin (VOLUME TWO)
In Spivak's recounting of the exhibition and the fair, Klim Samgin became aware that the tenderness he had once felt survived solely in his memory, having vanished as an emotion. He knew that what he was saying wasn't interesting. He was embarrassed by his desire to establish his own line between the exaggerated adoration of some newspapers and the grumbling cynicism of others, and besides, he feared falling into the rude and mocking tone of Inokov's satirical pieces.
By ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR10 months ago in Psyche
After The Silence
My whole life, I didn’t even realize something was wrong. You go so long being a certain way you don’t even realize there’s anything else. This is the story of my life. A story where my protection became my prison. A story where I finally became human, once again.
By Carson Hunter10 months ago in Psyche
Homunculus. Honorable Mention in The Metamorphosis of the Mind Challenge. Top Story - April 2025.
The homunculus is a representation of the man behind the man, the woman behind the woman, the body behind the body: the graphic mapping of what parts of the body are put together in proportion to how they’re laid out and innervated as related to our brain tissue. Not all sensations and volitional movements are distributed evenly. Thus, the homunculus is a distorted—even a comical—little creature.
By Gerard DiLeo10 months ago in Psyche
Chapter III: The Painter’s Paradox — Creation as Annihilation
There is a man whose artwork is not composed with a brush dipped in paint, but rather dipped in existence itself. The bristles of his paint brush, dipped in a white so bright it worships the very idea of painting, are believed to be the extract of the very marrow of the soul itself. Each stroke is not just light on canvas, but light imagined; he contains the power to release light into the fathomless void lurking around the periphery of life. He is a painter of the endless dark, a witness to a subjectless mute whose silence speaks louder than any tangible utterance. Language fails here; any word on the edge of the subject's tongue is siphoned away, absorbed, dissolved, and regurgitated onto the dried slick of basanit slate as pigment. What else could it be called but a sacrament? His brush as chalice; his white, the dictated libation of a soul grasping at meaning in its own frailty.But as the light escapes his brush, the shadow is also introduced.
By LUCCIAN LAYTH10 months ago in Psyche
Doom-Spending
Doom-spending is a term used to describe the excessive or impulsive spending habits exhibited by individuals, especially those in Generation Z, driven by feelings of hopelessness or a pessimistic outlook on the future. This phenomenon is a response to a combination of personal anxieties, economic instability, and a constant bombardment of negative messages about the future. Faced with global challenges such as climate change, political unrest, and economic uncertainty, many young people today experience a sense of despair that can manifest itself in the form of reckless financial decisions (Furnham, 2019). Doom-spending involves individuals making purchases as a temporary escape, believing that material goods offer brief relief from the pressure and stress of an uncertain future.
By Annie Kapur10 months ago in Psyche
