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purplesurveys · 5 years ago

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How much money did your last vacation cost? I’m guessing it cost around ₱20-25K, or around $400-500? I don’t think it’d be higher than that because it was a local vacation, but we did go to two cities for that trip and stayed in two hotels so that should bump up the prices. Have you ever taken a physics class? I did. We took physics for our senior year science class in high school, and then I had to take another physics class for college. Do you still have any living grandparents? If so, how old are they? Three of them are still alive. My maternal grandmother just turned 73 last December; and while I don’t know how old my dad’s parents are, I know they started having kids earlier than how old I am now so they would be a bit younger than 73. My late grandfather died at 75. Have you ever driven a truck? Nopes. What are your thoughts on celebrity idolization and 'fangirling/fanboying?' Fangirling/boying is honestly fine with me, it’s a phase almost everyone goes through, myself included. It just feels nice to be that interested in someone or something, and it’s a good escape from life and also a great opportunity to meet people who like the same things. Idolization can be creepy and just a downright bad idea though. I know there’s a lot of toxic fanbases out there like Ariana Grande’s and Justin Bieber’s, whose stans can be big bullies or pick fights with absolutely anybody. Being a casual fan is anyone’s best option.

What is the messiest area in your home? Probably my sister’s. SHE’S organized, but she has a cat who’s a little feisty and will fuck up her room at least once a week. Who was the last person you called? My mom. I missed a call from her this afternoon so I just called her back. What's your favorite computer game genre? I don’t play computer games. Do you have any exes your parents never liked? They don’t know Gabie that way. Do you ever keep things just because they might be useful someday? Yep. This is where my slight tendency for hoarding enters the picture. I don’t have a severe case of it, but I do keep things longer than they should’ve been with me to begin with. For example, I still have the shipping pouch/envelope that came with my very first online order purchase precisely because it was my first purchase from an online shop and it’s one of the more unusual memories for me lmao. I’ll probs throw it out soon now that I remembered it.

Do you take public transportation to work? No. It’s too hot, crowded, and MILLIONS of people all over Metro Manila are in line every single day to catch one of the not-enough jeeps, trains, and buses that we have. Driving isn’t all that better either, but it’s the next best option after private helicopters. Bottomline is, our road, transportation, and infrastructure systems are complete shit. What extracurricular activities did you do when you were growing up? The first thing I ever dabbled in was ballet, then I did swimming, cooking, acting, and table tennis. Has anything unusual happened to you recently? Nah, it’s been pretty boring lately. Do you like chicken korma? I know that it’s Indian so I’ll probably like it, but I don’t think I’ve ever ordered it. Are you frequently in a bad mood? I wouldn’t say frequently. I’m just in a bad mood when there’s a reason to be. Or when I’m depressed, which only comes in day-long bursts. Do you ever fill out surveys while in a bad mood? That will sometimes be my go-to, but other times it wouldn’t be. What was the last type of tea you drank? Sugary iced tea, if that counts. Have you ever been severely mentally ill? I guess you can say that, yep. What was the last website you were on, before this one? Twitter. Where is the most interesting place you could go that's within day-trip distance from your house? Probably Tagaytay as there’s a lot of stuff to do and try there. Do you ever rearrange your furniture? Nope. I’m okay with how my stuff’s arranged. Have you ever been to Toronto? I have not. I know a lot of childhood clasmates who migrated there, though. Have you received financial help from your parents in the past 5 years? Yes. They’re my main source of assistance, as is the case in Filipino families. Are you a fast or a slow eater? RIDICULOUSLY slow. I will take an hour or two to finish up absolutely any meal, tops. What room(s) of your house did you last vacuum? I haven’t vacuumed in a while... How old were you when you had your first relationship? 16. Why did your last relationship end? She was overwhelmed about our future given how young and unprepared for anything we were. What was the last thing you purchased from a small local business? I got Marikina slippers from a pop-up booth at the mall for Gabie’s sister. Do you get dental checkups at least once a year? Not anymore, but I did recently have a couple trips to the dentist. Is there anyone in your family/household whom you frequently argue with? My brother and I do not talk anymore, so I guess you can say we’re in like this permanent state of conflict lol. But other than him, it would be my mom. We clash on nearly every topic, every issue. Do you live in a high cost-of-living area? I wouldn’t say that about Antipolo, no. Have you ever used chewing tobacco? Nope. If you could change one thing about today, what would it be? I wish I hadn’t been crying when Leigh greeted me at Skywalk this morning.

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leppardbowie · 7 years ago

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HOW DARE YOU DO THIS lmaoo *putting away spork * lets do this hahah

1. Who was the last person you held hands with? Lmao no one2. Are you outgoing or shy? *hides in shame cube* very very very shy3. Who are you looking forward to seeing? I dont know anyone atm but I guess my dad lol4. Are you easy to get along with? Yah sure :p5. If you were drunk would the person you like take care of you? im not with anyone so lmao6. What kind of people are you attracted to? Idk if yeh mean personality wise , looks wise ? but ill say people who say what they mean and mean what they say people who don’t say sorry just bc someone was “offended” lmao and people who dont really give a damn lol7. Do you think you’ll be in a relationship two months from now? erm my mom says no8. Who from the opposite gender is on your mind? Jerry lewis9. Does talking about sex make you uncomfortable? Yes10. Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with? mermy11. What does the most recent text that you sent say? “googled it”12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now? 1. dont you forget about me billy idol 2. Is this love Bob marley 3. Blue highway billy idol 4. Crackerbox palace george harrison 5. harlem shuffle rolling stones13. Do you like it when people play with your hair? nein 14. Do you believe in luck and miracles? Yesh :p 15. What good thing happened this summer? um lmao nothing happened this summer 16. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again? Ive never been kissed17. Do you think there is life on other planets? YEAS18. Do you still talk to your first crush? ive never had a crush so....19. Do you like bubble baths? Yah :p20. Do you like your neighbors? NEIN21. What are you bad habits? ?!?!? idk lmao probably hating people too much22. Where would you like to travel? Trinidad 23. Do you have trust issues? eh 24. Favorite part of your daily routine? Crocheting25. What part of your body are you most uncomfortable with? I like all of me 26. What do you do when you wake up? stare into the void27. Do you wish your skin was lighter or darker? Naaaaahhhhhh I like my complexion lol28. Who are you most comfortable around? my mom 29. Have any of your ex’s told you they regret breaking up? Ive never ha any exes30. Do you ever want to get married? Yeah :p31. If your hair long enough for a pony tail? No lmao32. Which celebrities would you have a threesome with? eww 33. Spell your name with your chin.c hgyz n ndcf34. Do you play sports? What sports? Swimming :D 35. Would you rather live without TV or music? Tv Ive not seen television in 7 years36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them? Ive never liked anyone irl lmao37. What do you say during awkward silences? lol i laugh38. Describe your dream girl/guy? hmm I like all kinds of people so I guess just eccentric weirdos :p39. What are your favorite stores to shop in? converse and target :p40. What do you want to do after high school? work in the medical feel41. Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance? not everybodyyyyyyyy now42. If your being extremely quiet what does it mean? either you have offended me in someway or im holding back the urge to strangle you43. Do you smile at strangers? sometimes44. Trip to outer space or bottom of the ocean? OCEANNNNN :p45. What makes you get out of bed in the morning? the joy of life46. What are you paranoid about? aint worried bout nuttin47. Have you ever been high? no48. Have you ever been drunk?np49. Have you done anything recently that you hope nobody finds out about?no50. What was the colour of the last hoodie you wore? not really a hoddie but lmao ? turqouis jacket thing 51. Ever wished you were someone else? no52. One thing you wish you could change about yourself? my brain function53. Favourite makeup brand? dont have one54. Favourite store?dont have one55. Favourite blog?dont have one56. Favourite colour? RAINBOWWWWWWW57. Favourite food? tamales orrr carne asada58. Last thing you ate? noodles59. First thing you ate this morning? a lolipop :p60. Ever won a competition? For what? blue ribbon for swimming 61. Been suspended/expelled? For what? Nerp62. Been arrested? For what? No 63. Ever been in love? no64. Tell us the story of your first kiss? havent had it yet65. Are you hungry right now? yah lmao66. Do you like your tumblr friends more than your real friends? I dont have any friends irl 0_067. Facebook or Twitter? neither i dont even have facebook lmao68. Twitter or Tumblr? id glady delete both rn for a good sum of money69. Are you watching tv right now? I dont have a tv70. Names of your bestfriends? ?!?!? no friends irl but I mean tumblr wise @Bowieakajohn i talk to her alot71. Craving something? What? pizza72. What colour are your towels? dont have any lol 72. How many pillows do you sleep with? 173. Do you sleep with stuffed animals?174. How many stuffed animals do you think you have? used to have tons now i have like 3 :’075. Favourite animal? rodents76. What colour is your underwear? bleck77. Chocolate or Vanilla? vanillerrrrrr78. Favourite ice cream flavour? hmm :p I dont like ice cream that much butttt pistacio 79. What colour shirt are you wearing? not wearing a shirt haha80. What colour pants? black81. Favourite tv show? havent watched tv in yearsss 82. Favourite movie? Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 197883. Mean Girls or Mean Girls 2? Ive never seen that dingy movie84. Mean Girls or 21 Jump Street? neither lmao85. Favourite character from Mean Girls? I dont know any of them86. Favourite character from Finding Nemo? darla87. First person you talked to today? mommy :p88. Last person you talked to today? mommy :p89. Name a person you hate? nobody ahha90. Name a person you love? mommy91. Is there anyone you want to punch in the face right now? *triggered*92. In a fight with someone? no93. How many sweatpants do you have? none94. How many sweaters/hoodies do you have? none95. Last movie you watched? *chokes* did not finish but arizona dream eww holy jesus ew96. Favourite actress? none97. Favourite actor? Eddie redmayne , jake gyllenhal , jerry lewis , hugh jackman , christian bale , john hurt :p98. Do you tan a lot? never have never will99. Have any pets? Yas my bby guinea100. How are you feeling? aight101. Do you type fast? eh102. Do you regret anything from your past? eh eh eh yeh103. Can you spell well? Yah :p104. Do you miss anyone from your past? ehhhh not really105. Ever been to a bonfire party? no106. Ever broken someone’s heart? ?!? idk107. Have you ever been on a horse? no but I have pet a christmas show horse108. What should you be doing? chemistry109. Is something irritating you right now? nah110. Have you ever liked someone so much it hurt? no111. Do you have trust issues? didnt you ask this already ?112. Who was the last person you cried in front of? noone113. What was your childhood nickname? mommanoma (still is)114. Have you ever been out of your province/state? Yah :p115. Do you play the Wii? np116. Are you listening to music right now? in my head yeh irl no117. Do you like chicken noodle soup? yesh :p118. Do you like Chinese food? yeah119. Favourite book? immortal city120. Are you afraid of the dark? no121. Are you mean? sometimes :o but i try to be nice okay i try122. Is cheating ever okay? no123. Can you keep white shoes clean? never had white shoes124. Do you believe in love at first sight? ?!?!?125. Do you believe in true love? ?!?!?126. Are you currently bored? yeh127. What makes you happy? life :D 128. Would you change your name? no lol129. What your zodiac sign? scorpio130. Do you like subway? yeah had subway todat lol131. Your bestfriend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? lol if i liked em back cool :p132. Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? nerbedy133. Favourite lyrics right now? cant think lmao134. Can you count to one million? no lmao my brain short circuts at 65135. Dumbest lie you ever told? idk136. Do you sleep with your doors open or closed? locked137. How tall are you? 6″2138. Curly or Straight hair? my natural hair is an afro lol139. Brunette or Blonde? neither lmao redhead140. Summer or Winter? winterrrrrrr141. Night or Day? day142. Favourite month? november143. Are you a vegetarian? no144. Dark, milk or white chocolate? milky :p145. Tea or Coffee? Both :D146. Was today a good day? yeah147. Mars or Snickers? SNICKERSSSSSSSS148. What’s your favourite quote? “not a chance , not a snowflakes chance in hell” - david bowie149. Do you believe in ghosts? yeh :p150. Get the closest book next to you, open it to page 42, what’s the first line on that page?” I turn with the warm ador of a friend to those who have nobody “

WHY YOU DO DIS @bowieakajohn Y Lmaoooo

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razzledazzlefoshazzle · 8 years ago

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My crush’s name is: Cassie

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I was born in: 1998, Australia, NSW

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I am really: I am really annoyed that you wanna know so much about me anon y u do dis

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My cellphone company is: Optus

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My eye color is: Brown

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My shoe size is: 11 Australia Mens

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My ring size is: i dont know

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My height is: 181cm or 5′10″ i tihnk

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I am allergic to: NOTHING I AM UNSTOPPABLE

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My 1st car was: No Car

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My 1st job was: I was an assistant at some guys authentic pizza shop. He was an asshole and i shouldve killed him before quitting.

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Last book you read: Ready Player One

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My bed is: My bed is my one true love and warm machine luv u bb

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My pet: I have 2 dogs they’re fluffy love muffins called Pepsi (boy) Bella (Girl) ill post photos of them later!

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My best friend:

@schotts-fired

at this point i have as many memes with Kat as i do my real life best friend.

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My favorite shampoo is: Really nice smelling ones.

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Xbox or ps3: PS3

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Piggy banks are: Piggy banks are dumb i have a golden pineapple for my spare change.

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In my pockets: earphones.

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On my calendar: every friday i do stuff but thats it

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Marriage is: cool

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Spongebob can: produce good memes

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My mom: Isnt nice i probably wont talk to her once i move out.

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The last three songs I bought were?Buying? Songs?

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Last YouTube video watched: Masculinity by Mr Sark

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How many cousins do you have? at least 3

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Do you have any siblings? 3 Brothers and a Sister ive seen twice

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Are your parents divorced? Yes

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Are you taller than your mom? Hell yeah shes a goblin at like 150cm.

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Do you play an instrument? No

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What did you do yesterday? I slept, watched movies, complained about the internet being down.

[ I Believe In ]

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Love at first sight: Not unless its a dog

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Luck: No but if someone does something better than me they’re lucky >:(

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Fate: No

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Yourself: No

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Aliens: I wish they would fix everything

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Heaven: Questioning my religious beliefs lately

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Hell: ^

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God: ^

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Horoscopes: No but they’re funny to read

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Soul mates: No.

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Ghosts: NOT BUT LIKE ALIENS I WANT THEM TO BE REAL GHOSTS PLEASE BE REAL.

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Gay Marriage: Yah its about as good as straight marriage

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War: its about as shit as i am

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Orbs: what are these?

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Magic: Refer to both ghosts and aliens.

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Hugs or Kisses: Hugs

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Drunk or High: Drunk

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Phone or Online: Online

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Red heads or Black haired: Red Heads

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Blondes or Brunettes: Brunettes

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Hot or cold: Cold

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Summer or winter: Winter

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Autumn or Spring: Spring

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Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate

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Night or Day: Night

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Oranges or Apples: Apples

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Curly or Straight hair: Straight

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McDonalds or Burger King: McDonalds

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White Chocolate or Milk Chocolate: White Chocolate

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Mac or PC: PC

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Flip flops or high heals: High heals like healing in video games am i right?

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Ugly and rich OR sweet and poor: Sweet and Poor

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Coke or Pepsi: Coke

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Hillary or Obama: Obama

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Burried or cremated: Burried so i may rise again!

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Singing or Dancing: Dancing

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Coach or Chanel: What

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Kat McPhee or Taylor Hicks:Who

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Small town or Big city: Big City

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Wal-Mart or Target: Target

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Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler: Adam Sandler

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Manicure or Pedicure: neither?

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East Coast or West Coast: East coast cause western australia is a bunch of weirdos

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Your Birthday or Christmas: My birthday cause giving gifts is hard and spending time with people is easy.

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Chocolate or Flowers:Chocolate

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Disney or Six Flags: Disney

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Yankees or Red Sox: is that sports?

[ Here’s What I Think About ]

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War: War Never Changes

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George Bush: He definitely did sleep with that woman.

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Gay Marriage: Good again!

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The presidential election: Trump is a rollercoaster of emotion ranging from bad to worse. At least the memes are good!

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Abortion: Choice

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MySpace: Had some pretty good games on it

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Reality TV: awful

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Parents: My parents? Out of the 4 ive had i like one of them.

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Back stabbers: What kind of question is this i hate them.

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Ebay: Dont use ebay really.

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Facebook: The thing i use so real life friends can contact me its trash.

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Work: My experiences have been, less than pleasant.

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My Neighbors: I dont know any of my neighbours but they’re rude and dont reply to my hello’s.

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Gas Prices: i dont fucking know

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Designer Clothes: I dont care for clothes i wear tshirts and trackies all the time.

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College: No opinion on call egg.

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Sports: Fun to play boring to watch

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My family: i like my dad and my brothers

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The future: must be better than now?

[ Last time I ]

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Hugged someone: someone i wasnt related to like a month ago

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Last time you ate: literally always

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Saw someone I haven’t seen in awhile: last friday

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Cried in front of someone: fucking years ago i dont cry in front of people anymore

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Went to a movie theater: like a month ago

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Took a vacation: never

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Swam in a pool: 3 months ago

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Changed a diaper: never

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Got my nails done: a year ago

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Went to a wedding: also a year ago

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Broke a bone: never

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Got a peircing: never

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Broke the law: never

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Texted: couple hours ago

[ MISC ]

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Who makes you laugh the most: myself, anime

@schotts-fired

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Something I will really miss when I leave home is: the internet

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The last movie I saw: Taking of Pelham 123

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The thing that I’m looking forward to the most: Finding my happiness again

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The thing im not looking forward to: my ex making social interactions awkward again

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People call me: Jack

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The most difficult thing to do is: get out of bed, finish breakfast

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I have gotten a speeding ticket: no

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My zodiac sign is: Sagittarius

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The first person i talked to today was:

@whoneedsasociallife

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First time you had a crush: Primary School one of my Teachers

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The one person who i can’t hide things from: Nobody.

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Last time someone said something you were thinking: Constantly

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Right now I am talking to: Nobody

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What are you going to do when you grow up: Anything hopefully ill be happy

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I have/will get a job: Someday

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Tomorrow: Movies with dad, night with friends

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Today: nothing

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Next Summer: nothing

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Next Weekend: also nothing

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I have these pets: 2 diggity doggos

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The worst sound in the world: the sound my computer makes when it bluescreens while music it playing

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The person that makes me cry the most is: my ex

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People that make you happy: almost nobody

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Last time I cried: like 5 hours ago

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My friends are: trash shit garbage

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My computer is: absolute trash after so many issues im planning on getting a new one

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My School: sucked complete ass i was abused by a teacher

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My Car: doesnt exist

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I lose all respect for people who: no answer

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The movie I cried at was: anything that involves any form of friendship and love, or dogs dying

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Your hair color is: brown

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TV shows you watch: read my about

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Favorite web site: tumblr/youtube

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Your dream vacation: the fucking moon

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The worst pain I was ever in was: I had a cough last year that completely killed my voice and tore up my throat, coughed up blood

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How do you like your steak cooked: Well Done

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My room is: Clean and tidy af

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My favorite celebrity is: none

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Where would you like to be: in the future

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Do you want children: no

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Ever been in love: yes it fucking ruined me

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Who’s your best friend:

@schotts-fired

we already have more memes than my irl best friend

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More guy friends or girl friends: girl friends

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One thing that makes you feel great is: memes

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One person that you wish you could see right now: nobody tbh

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Do you have a 5 year plan: nope

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Have you made a list of things to do before you die: climb Mt. Everest, thats it

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Have you pre-named your children: nope

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Last person I got mad at: myself

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I would like to move to: a place with good internet

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I wish I was a professional: Twitch Streamer

[ My Favorites ]

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Candy: Red Licorice

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Vehicle: Shopping trolleys i guess

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President: Obama

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State visited: I dont travel

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Cellphone provider: Optus

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Athlete: None

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Actor: None

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Actress: None

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Singer: None

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Band: None

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Clothing store: None

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Grocery store:None

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TV show: Doctor Who

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Movie: Cant remember

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Website: Tumblr/Youtube

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Animal: Dogs

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Theme park: Wet n’ Wild

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Holiday: New Years

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Sport to watch: None

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Sport to play: None

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Magazine: None

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Book: Ready Player One

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Day of the week: Friday

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Beach: Nobbys Beach

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Concert attended: None

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Thing to cook: Potato Bake

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Food: Pork Ribs

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Restaurant: Any place that sells pork ribs

Radio station: None.

Yankee candle scent: what

Perfume: no

Flower: any that can go in my hair like a hipster

Color: Purple

Talk show host: John Oliver

Comedian: Louis C.K.

Dog breed: Shiba Inu

Did you answer all these truthfully? maybe i dont know myself

Fuck you anon you cant stop me im dedicated as heck and butts fight me.

:Update: I went and updated these cause my internet came back!

#asks #about me #question thing

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investmart007 · 6 years ago

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JOLIET, Ill. | Martin Truex Jr. trying for 3rd straight win at Chicagoland

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JOLIET, Ill. | Martin Truex Jr. trying for 3rd straight win at Chicagoland

JOLIET, Ill. — Martin Truex Jr. just celebrated his 38th birthday. He has won two of his last three races. He is spending this weekend at one of his favorite tracks.

So yes, life is quite good at the moment.

Truex appears to be picking up some momentum as he tries to become the first repeat NASCAR Cup Series champion since Jimmie Johnson won five in a row from 2006 to 2010. He goes for his third consecutive victory at Chicagoland Speedway this Sunday.

“This track has always been really good for me. Obviously, the last two years, it’s been really good,” said Truex, who turned 38 on Friday. “I had to overcome a lot of issues here both years it seems like to be able to get the win. That’s kind of neat looking back on our two races here, what we had to overcome to win. This year is going to be different, I think.”

Truex had to deal with a completely unraveled tire on his way to the Chicagoland victory in 2016. He had an early pit-road penalty last year, but he led for 75 laps and finished more than 7 seconds ahead of second-place Chase Elliott.

Truex and the rest of the Cup Series face a different challenge on this visit to the bumpy 1.5-mile oval. Chicagoland was being staged in September as NASCAR’s playoff opener, but it has a mid-summer date this season and the forecast calls for temperatures in the 90s.

Truex was 12th in qualifying on Saturday, turning a lap in 174.656 mph. But his car failed its inspection, sending him all the way back to the 36th starting position.

“Grip’s been tough to find this weekend for a lot of guys,” he said. “New tires as well, so I mean there’s a lot of new things going on. It’s definitely going to be tougher, I would imagine that the groove’s going to be probably on average a little bit higher than when we run here in the fall. I think more guys are going to get the top working. It’s definitely going to be different, but how much it’s hard to say right now.”

Truex is coming off a win last weekend at Sonoma, outdueling Kevin Harvick on the road course for his third victory of the season in his Furniture Row Racing Toyota. He also won at Pocono on June 3, holding off a hard-charging Kyle Larson.

Truex, Harvick and Kyle Busch have combined for 12 wins in the first 16 races on the Cup Series. The only other winners this season are Austin Dillon, Clint Bowyer and Joey Logano.

With his three victories, Truex could use the rest of the summer to experiment with his car ahead of the playoffs. But Truex called that strategy “a little bit overblown.”

“The experimentation thing I think is something that is more old school,” he said. “This day and age you want to have confidence in the things you’re doing and continue to do them. So that’s kind of the approach we’ll take.”

Here are a few more things to watch in the Cup Series’ return to Chicagoland:

JIMMIE’S SEASON: Johnson is still looking for his first win this season, and Chicagoland is one of three tracks on the Cup Series schedule where he is without a victory. He finished second in 2004, 2008 and 2012. But the track also is the site of his only win in 83 starts on the XFinity Series. He has 83 Cup wins, one away from matching Hall of Famers Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip.

REMEMBERING JASON: A couple drivers were planning to pay tribute to Jason Johnson, a sprint car driver who died last weekend at age 41 following a crash at Beaver Dam Raceway in Wisconsin. Larson said he will have a “Forever 41” sticker in place of where his name would be on his car.

KEEPING THE FAITH: Daniel Suarez finished 15th last weekend at Sonoma. He is 19th in the season standings and needs to get going to make the playoffs, but he remains confident. “We’re going to make it. I will tell you that,” he said.

By JAY COHEN, AP Sports Writer, By Associated Press

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Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid (/kɪnˈkeɪd/; born May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua, which is part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda. She lives in North Bennington, Vermont, during the summers and teaches at Harvard as the "Professor of African and American studies in Residence" at Harvard during the academic year. Kincaid is an award-winning writer whose work has been both praised and criticized for its subject matter because her writing largely draws upon her own life and her tone is often perceived as angry. In response, Kincaid counters that many writers also draw upon personal experience, and thus to describe her writing as autobiographical and angry is not valid criticism.

Biography

Early life

Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in St. John's, Antigua, in 1949. She grew up in relative poverty with her mother, a literate, cultured woman and home-maker, and her stepfather, a carpenter. She was very close to her mother until the first of her three brothers were born in quick succession when she was nine years old. After their births, Kincaid felt that she was neglected by her mother, who thereafter focused primarily on the needs of her younger brothers. Kincaid later recalled, “our family money remained the same, but there were more people to feed and to clothe, and so everything got sort of shortened, not only material things but emotional things. The good emotional things, I got a short end of that. But then I got more of things I didn't have, like a certain kind of cruelty and neglect.” In a New York Times interview, Kincaid also said that “The way I became a writer was that my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me.”

Kincaid was educated in the British colonial education system, as Antigua did not gain its independence from England until 1981. Although she was intelligent and frequently tested at the top of her class, her mother removed Kincaid from school at age sixteen to help support the family when her third and last brother was born because her stepfather was ill and could not provide for the family any more. In 1966, her mother sent her to Scarsdale, an upper-class suburb of New York City, when she was only seventeen to work as an au pair. However, after this move, Kincaid refused to send money home. Additionally, "she left no forwarding address and was cut off from her family until her return to Antigua 20 years later.”

Family

In 1979, Kincaid married the composer and Bennington College professor, Allen Shawn, son of The New Yorker's longtime editor William Shawn and brother of actor Wallace Shawn. They divorced in 2002. They have two children: a son, Harold who is the music producer/songwriter Levelsoundz, and a daughter, the singer/songwriter Annie Rosamond. Kincaid is the President of the Levelsoundz fan club, which is the official fan club for her son Harold Shawn.

Kincaid is a keen gardener who has written extensively on the subject. She is also a convert to Judaism.

Career overview

While working as an au pair, Kincaid enrolled in evening classes at a community college. After three years, she resigned from her job to attend Franconia College in New Hampshire on a full scholarship. However, Kincaid dropped out of school after one year and returned to New York. In New York City, she started writing for a teenage girls' magazine and changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid in 1973 when her writing was first published. She described changing her name as "a way for [her] to do things without being the same person who couldn't do them—the same person who had all these weights". On her choice of first and last name, Kincaid explained that Jamaica is an English corruption of what Columbus called Xaymaca as well as it is the part of the world that she is from and Kincaid appeared to go well with Jamaica. Kincaid became a writer for The Village Voice and Ingénue. Kincaid's short fiction appeared in The Paris Review and The New Yorker, where her novel Lucy was originally serialized.

The New Yorker

As a result of her budding writing career and friendship with George W. S. Trow, who wrote many pieces for The New Yorker column "The Talk of the Town", Kincaid became acquainted with The New Yorker's legendary editor, William Shawn, who was impressed with Kincaid's writing. He employed her as a staff writer in 1976 and then eventually as a featured columnist for "Talk of the Town", which lasted nine years. William Shawn's tutelage legitimized Kincaid as a writer and proved pivotal to her development of voice. In all, she was a staff writer for The New Yorker for twenty years. She resigned from The New Yorker in 1996 when the editor Tina Brown chose actress Roseanne Barr to guest-edit an issue as an original feminist voice. Even though circulation rose under Brown, Kincaid was critical of Brown's direction in making the magazine less literary and more celebrity-oriented.

Kincaid recalls that when she was a writer for The New Yorker, she would often be questioned, particularly by women, on how she was able to obtain her position. Kincaid felt that these questions were posed to her because she was a young black woman "from nowhere...I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for The New Yorker, I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people."

Talk Stories was later published in 2001 as a collection of “77 short pieces Kincaid wrote for The New Yorker's ‘Talk of the Town’ column between 1974 and 1983”.

Writing

Her novels are loosely autobiographical, though Kincaid has warned against interpreting their autobiographical elements too literally: "Everything I say is true, and everything I say is not true. You couldn't admit any of it to a court of law. It would not be good evidence." Her work often prioritizes "impressions and feelings over plot development" and features conflict with both a strong maternal figure and colonial and neocolonial influences. Excerpts from her non-fiction book A Small Place were used as part of the narrative for Stephanie Black's 2001 documentary, Life and Debt.

One of Kincaid's contributions according to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., African-American literary critic, scholar, writer, and public intellectual, is that:

She never feels the necessity of claiming the existence of a black world or a female sensibility. She assumes them both. I think it's a distinct departure that she's making, and I think that more and more black American writers will assume their world the way that she does. So that we can get beyond the large theme of racism and get to the deeper themes of how black people love and cry and live and die. Which, after all, is what art is all about.

Themes

Her writing explores such themes as colonialism and colonial legacy, postcolonialism and neo-colonialism, gender and sexuality, renaming, mother-daughter relationships, British and American imperialism, colonial education, writing, racism, class, power, and adolescence. In her most recent novel, See Now Then, Kincaid also first explores the theme of time.

Tone and style

Her writing has been crir. As works such as At the Bottom of the River and The Autobiography of My Mother use Antiguan cultural practices, some critics say these works employ “magical realism”. “The author claims, however, that [her work] is ‘magic’ and ‘real,’ but not necessarily [works] of ‘magical realism.’” Other critics claim that her style is “modernist” because much of her fiction is "culturally specific and experimental". It has also been praised for its keen observation of character, curtness, wit, and lyrical quality. Derek Walcott, 1992 Nobel laureate, described Kincaid's writing: "As she writes a sentence, psychologically, its temperature is that it heads toward its own contradiction. It's as if the sentence is discovering itself, discovering how it feels. And that is astonishing, because it's one thing to be able to write a good declarative sentence; it's another thing to catch the temperature of the narrator, the narrator's feeling. And that's universal, and not provincial in any way". Susan Sontag has also commended Kincaid's writing for its "emotional truthfulness," poignancy, and complexity.

Influences

Kincaid's writing is largely influenced by her life circumstances even though she discourages readers from taking her fiction too literally. To do so, according to the writer Michael Arlen, is to be "disrespectful of a fiction writer's ability to create fictional characters". Arlen, who would become a colleague at The New Yorker, is whom Kincaid worked for as an au pair and the figure whom the father in Lucy is based on. Despite her caution to readers, Kincaid has also said that: "I would never say I wouldn't write about an experience I've had."

Criticism

Writing in Salon.com, Peter Kurth called Kincaid's work My Brother the most overrated book of 1997.

Reviewing her latest novel, See Now Then in The New York Times, Dwight Garner called it “bipolar," “half séance, half ambush” and “the kind of lumpy exorcism that many writers would have composed and then allowed to remain unpublished. It picks up no moral weight as it rolls along. It asks little of us, and gives little in return.”

List of works

Novels

Annie John (1985)

Lucy (1990)

The Autobiography of My Mother (1996)

Mr.Potter (2002)

See Now Then (2013)

Uncollected fiction

"Ovando" (1989), Conjunctions 14: 75–83

"The Finishing Line" (1990), New York Times Book Review 18

"Biography of a Dress" (1992), Grand Street 11: 92–100 and at The Short Story Project

"Song of Roland" (1993), The New Yorker 69: 94–98

"Xuela" (1994), The New Yorker, 70: 82–92

Short story collections

At the Bottom of the River (1983)

Non-fiction books

A Small Place (1988)

My Brother (1997)

Talk Stories (2001)

My Garden Book (2001)

Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005)

Uncollected non-fiction

"Antigua Crossings: A Deep and Blue Passage on the Caribbean Sea"(1978) Rolling Stone: 48–50.

"Figures in the Distance" (1983)

"On Seeing England for the First Time" (1991), Transition Magazine 51: 32–40

"Out of Kenya" (1991) New York Times: A15, A19, with Ellen Pall

"Flowers of Evil: In the Garden" (1992) The New Yorker 68: 154–159

"A Fire by Ice" (1993) The New Yorker 69: 64–67

"Just Reading: In the Garden" (1993) The New Yorker 69: 51–55

"Alien Soil: In the Garden" (1993) The New Yorker 69: 47–52

"This Other Eden" (1993) The New Yorker 69: 69–73

"The Season Past: In the Garden" (1994) The New Yorker 70: 57–61

"In Roseau" (1995) The New Yorker 71: 92–99.

"In History" (1997), The Colors of Nature

My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants they Love (1998), Editor

Children's literature

Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam, and Tulip (1986)

Interviews

Selwyn Cudjoe, "Jamaica Kincaid and the Modernist Project: An Interview," Callaloo, 12 (Spring 1989): 396–411; reprinted in Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference, ed. Cudjoe (Wellesley, Mass.: Calaloux, 1990): 215–231.

Leslie Garis, "Through West Indian Eyes," New York Times Magazine (October 7, 1990): 42.

Donna Perry, "An Interview with Jamaica Kincaid," in Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York: Meridian, 1990): 492–510.

Kay Bonetti, "An Interview with Jamaica Kincaid," Missouri Review, 15, No. 2 (1992): 124–142.

Allan Vorda, "I Come from a Place That's Very Unreal: An Interview with Jamaica Kincaid," in Face to Face: Interviews with Contemporary Novelists, ed. Vorda (Houston: Rice University Press, 1993): 77–105.

Moira Ferguson, "A Lot of Memory: An Interview with Jamaica Kincaid," Kenyon Review, 16 (Winter 1994): 163–188.

Awards and honors

1984 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for At the Bottom of the River

1984 Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for At the Bottom of the River 1984.

1985 Guggenheim Award for Fiction

1985 Finalist for the International Ritz Paris Hemingway Award for Annie John

1997 Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Friction for The Autobiography of My Mother

1997 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for The Autobiography of My Mother

1999 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction

2000 Prix Femina étranger for My Brother

2004 American Academy of Arts and Letters

2009 American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2010 Center for Fiction's Clifton Fadiman Medal for Annie John

2011 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Tufts University

2014 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award for See Now Then

2015 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Brandeis University

Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award.

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1. Who was the last person you held hands with? I can't remember because it was that long ago 2. Are you outgoing or shy? Both  3. Who are you looking forward to seeing? No one  4. Are you easy to get along with? Yes 5. If you were drunk would the person you like take care of you? I hope so  6. What kind of people are you attracted to? I'm not fussy  7. Do you think you’ll be in a relationship two months from now? I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow nevermind 2 months ahead  8. Who from the opposite gender is on your mind? No one  9. Does talking about sex make you uncomfortable? Nope, I like it😂 10. Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with? Can't remember  11. What does the most recent text that you sent say? All about sex😂 12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now? I like a lot tbh 13. Do you like it when people play with your hair? Depends who it is 14. Do you believe in luck and miracles? Yeah 15. What good thing happened this summer? I don't know, I'll win the lottery  16. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again? It was my mum  17. Do you think there is life on other planets? Possibly  18. Do you still talk to your first crush? Now and again 19. Do you like bubble baths? Sometimes  20. Do you like your neighbors? No they're dicks  21. What are you bad habits? I bite my nails sometimes  22. Where would you like to travel? Australia  23. Do you have trust issues? Most definitely  24. Favorite part of your daily routine? Sleeping  25. What part of your body are you most uncomfortable with? Everything  26. What do you do when you wake up? Go back sleep😂 27. Do you wish your skin was lighter or darker? Darker because I'm like a ghost  28. Who are you most comfortable around? Quite a few people  29. Have any of your ex’s told you they regret breaking up? Yep 30. Do you ever want to get married? Eventually yeah, if anyone is willing to  31. If your hair long enough for a pony tail? Yeah 32. Which celebrities would you have a threesome with? Megan fox, and Dani Daniels  33. Spell your name with your chin. No 34. Do you play sports? What sports? Mainly football  35. Would you rather live without TV or music? Without music because there's music on the to  36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them? Yeah  37. What do you say during awkward silences? Nothing  38. Describe your dream girl/guy? Nah 39. What are your favorite stores to shop in? I'd sports, footasylum and next  40. What do you want to do after high school? I've finished high school  41. Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance? Depends what they did  42. If your being extremely quiet what does it mean? I'm moody 43. Do you smile at strangers? Sometimes  44. Trip to outer space or bottom of the ocean? Outer space, fuck going to the bottom of the ocean  45. What makes you get out of bed in the morning? Nothing  46. What are you paranoid about? Everything  47. Have you ever been high? Nope  48. Have you ever been drunk? Kinda  49. Have you done anything recently that you hope nobody finds out about? Nope  50. What was the colour of the last hoodie you wore? Blue  51. Ever wished you were someone else? Yeah  52. One thing you wish you could change about yourself? Everything  53. Favourite makeup brand? Don't wear makeup  54. Favourite store? Everything  55. Favourite blog? I like them all 56. Favourite colour? Purple  57. Favourite food? Omelette 58. Last thing you ate? Pizza and gravy  59. First thing you ate this morning? Weetabix  60. Ever won a competition? For what? Football, swimming, netball, abit of everything  61. Been suspended/expelled? For what? I think so maybe once  62. Been arrested? For what? Nope  63. Ever been in love?  Yeah64. Tell us the story of your first kiss? It wasn't anything special so no  65. Are you hungry right now? Nope  66. Do you like your tumblr friends more than your real friends? I don't have friends😂 67. Facebook or Twitter? Facebook  68. Twitter or Tumblr? Tumblr  69. Are you watching tv right now? Nope 70. Names of your bestfriends? None 71. Craving something? What? Cuddles and sex  72. What colour are your towels? Idk without looking 72. How many pillows do you sleep with? 4  73. Do you sleep with stuffed animals? Sometimes😎 74. How many stuffed animals do you think you have? A few  75. Favourite animal? Panther  76. What colour is your underwear? None because I've got none on 77. Chocolate or Vanilla? Vanilla  78. Favourite ice cream flavour? Idm which  79. What colour shirt are you wearing? None  80. What colour pants? All of them  81. Favourite tv show? Idkkk 82. Favourite movie? White chicks  83. Mean Girls or Mean Girls 2? Both  84. Mean Girls or 21 Jump Street? Mean girls  85. Favourite character from Mean Girls? All of them  86. Favourite character from Finding Nemo? Dory 87. First person you talked to today? My mum  88. Last person you talked to today? My mum  89. Name a person you hate? Everyone  90. Name a person you love? My nan  91. Is there anyone you want to punch in the face right now? Anyone who wants to get punched  92. In a fight with someone? Nope  93. How many sweatpants do you have? Quite a few ngl  94. How many sweaters/hoodies do you have? Quite a few  95. Last movie you watched? The mask  96. Favourite actress? Scarlett johansson  97. Favourite actor? Don't have one  98. Do you tan a lot? Nope  99. Have any pets? A cat, dog and parrot  100. How are you feeling? Tired and ill  101. Do you type fast? Yes  102. Do you regret anything from your past? Yeah, being born 103. Can you spell well? Pretty decent t 104. Do you miss anyone from your past? Yeah 105. Ever been to a bonfire party? Yeah 106. Ever broken someone’s heart? I think maybe  107. Have you ever been on a horse? Yes, I use to do horse riding  108. What should you be doing? Sleeping  109. Is something irritating you right now? Nope 110. Have you ever liked someone so much it hurt? Yeah 111. Do you have trust issues? Yes 112. Who was the last person you cried in front of? I don't cry much so  113. What was your childhood nickname? Chazza, chaz  114. Have you ever been out of your province/state? Yeah 115. Do you play the Wii? I use to 116. Are you listening to music right now? Nope 117. Do you like chicken noodle soup? Eww 118. Do you like Chinese food? Yeah 119. Favourite book? Don't have one  120. Are you afraid of the dark? I'm afraid of what's in the dark 121. Are you mean? Sometimes  122. Is cheating ever okay? No!!!! 123. Can you keep white shoes clean? Depends  124. Do you believe in love at first sight? Yeah 125. Do you believe in true love? Yeah  126. Are you currently bored? Always am  127. What makes you happy? People, sleeping  128. Would you change your name? No 129. What your zodiac sign? Aries  130. Do you like subway? Yessss 131. Your bestfriend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? Wouldn't happen  132. Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? I can't remember  133. Favourite lyrics right now? Haven't got any 134. Can you count to one million? Yes 135. Dumbest lie you ever told? Idek  136. Do you sleep with your doors open or closed? Closed  137. How tall are you? 5'6 138. Curly or Straight hair? Don't mind  139. Brunette or Blonde? Either  140. Summer or Winter? Winter  141. Night or Day? Night 142. Favourite month? All of them  143. Are you a vegetarian? Nope  144. Dark, milk or white chocolate? Dark  145. Tea or Coffee? Tea  146. Was today a good day? No 147. Mars or Snickers? Mars  148. What’s your favourite quote? Haven't got one  149. Do you believe in ghosts? Yeah 150. Get the closest book next to you, open it to page 42, what’s the first line on that page? Haven't got a book near me

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Marriage Is Driving Some To Drugs And It May Not Be A Bad Thing

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Marriage Is Driving Some To Drugs And It May Not Be A Bad Thing

by Don Lattin, initially printed on californiamag.org

Author Ayelet Waldman was teaching a category on drug policy reform at UC Berkeley when she and her husband, the most popular novelist Michael Chabon, made the decision that MDMA, the illegal party drug fueling individuals all-night raves, could also be medicines that may save their marriage. They were given the concept after Alexander Sasha Shulgin, the psychedelic chemist and thus-known as godfather of ecstasy, spoke to her class.

Which was about about ten years ago. Since that time, the pair go off once every couple of years for 2-night getaways around the California coast, something Waldman calls our marriage-recharging ritual.

We obtain up, choose a hike, so when were on the long ago, in regards to a half-hour in the hotel, we go ahead and take pills, stated Waldman, an old federal court public defender. Then, for the following six hrs, we discuss our relationship. After I tell my women buddies relating to this, they softly say, Yes. The boys all goNoooo!!!

Chabon, the bestselling author of these books as Telegraph Avenue and Moonglow, declined to sit down lower around and discuss this, for six minutes, after i interviewed his wife round the dining table within their Builder brown-shingle in Berkeleys Elmwood neighborhood. Michael made an appearance in the finish from the interview, nicely trembling my hands, saying hello and goodbye while ushering me the door.

Waldman, however, was wanting to discuss her illegal psychedelic drug routines, partly because shes just out with a brand new book entitled A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life. The majority of the book is all about how this irrepressible mother-of-four required minuscule, sub-perceptual doses of LSD so that they can quiet her moodiness and concentrate her mind.

Michael didn’t join Ayelet for the reason that month-lengthy acidity test. But each of them, she states, have taken advantage of their periodic, regular-dosing sessions with MDMA, a substance that enables us to explore incredibly painful things, however with love and empathy.

MDMA was during the news lately due to positive results from government-approved, independently-funded clinical drug trials that legally used the like a tool in psychiatric therapy sessions for patients struggling with Publish Traumatic Stress Disorder, including U.S. veterans from the Afghan and Iraq wars.

That can be a is news, couples have used this drug, without or with a counselor, legally and unlawfully, for many years.

Modifying the legal status of MDMA to routinely treat Post traumatic stress disorder could open the doorway for doctors to prescribe the drug being an off-label psychiatric therapy tool to deal with depression, anxiety and marital problems. Without supervision recreational use would be illegal.

First, just a little history about MDMA, chemically referred to as methylenedioxymethamphetamine:

In 1985, the us government banned MDMA among an earlier wave of youthful people while using compound like a party drug to fuel raves, all-night dance parties that will nonetheless keep growing within the 1990s with hundreds and often a large number of celebrants packed into private warehouses and public auditoriums. There have been numerous deaths at these occasions, sometimes caused by people dancing through the night and never consuming enough water, or by mixing MDMA with alcohol along with other drugs.

Despite anecdotal proof of its medical benefits like a therapeutic tool, the drug was considered an agenda 1 substance, meaning the us government had figured that MDMA was easily mistreated and without medical value. (Underneath the strange disconnect between condition and federal drug laws and regulations, marijuana continues to be a banned Schedule 1 substance through the feds, though it may be now legal for recreational and/or medical use within many states, including California. Cocaine, however, isn’t a Schedule 1 drug, meaning you can use it for medical purposes).

Earlier, in 4 decades ago and early 1980s, an increasing number of psychotherapists started silently using MDMA, then known as ADAM, like a therapeutic tool for people and couples. Following the 1985 ban, a few of these therapists stored carrying this out operate in a psychedelic-aided psychiatric therapy subterranean, risking criminal action and losing their professional licenses.

It is not always pretty, nevertheless its alive. Seeing another partner express fears can make more honesty within the relationship, and much more closeness.

One longtime subterranean psychedelic counselor, who for apparent reasons requested to stay anonymous, explained she’s securely and effectively used MDMA with a large number of couples. Within an interview in her own cozy Bay Area office, she described the way the drug could make her clients less defensive and less inclined to project past traumas onto their partners.

It is not always sweet and schmoozy, she stated. They frequently have difficult issues and are available in my experience to check out the dynamics of the relationship. Who has the ability? Who desires sex greater than another? Whenever they separate? It is not always pretty, nevertheless its alive. Seeing another partner express fears can make more honesty within the relationship, and much more closeness.

Her protocol begins by seeing each partner individually and leading them with an individual MDMA journey, which could last 3 to 4 hrs. Sometime later, the pair all comes together for any joint session that they receive time for you to both inwardly think about after which discuss whatever issues they would like to address. The counselor then provides them time for you to be alone.

There is a queen-size futon with sheets, blankets and pillows. Its okay when they get naked, she stated. They may be physicalbodies, skinwithout being sexual. After 20 or 25 minutes Ill knock around the door and get in the future in. This really is frequently time whenever we might discuss their love language or their sex existence.

While they’re still feeling the results from the MDMA, this counselor begins the key discussion about how exactly they will integrate the drug experience of their lives. How could they be likely to follow-up on this? They create decisions immediately, she stated.

The particular MDMA journeys occur inside a woodsy location outdoors the town. Some couples take a stroll inside a nearby forest toward the finish of the trip, or perhaps spend the night time in a cottage around the property.

You will find then two follow-up visits back in the Bay Area office to speak much more about integrating your way.

This counselor charges $2,500 to $3,000 for that preparation, MDMA journeys, and also the follow-up counseling.

While MDMA is viewed as an invaluable tool for couples work, psilocybin mushrooms are frequently the medication employed for individual sessions by subterranean guides. Mushroom journeys have a tendency to mind into more mystical realms, and involve ego dissolution, or even the melting off from the boundary between self along with other.

With MDMA, the ego structure is undamaged, the counselor described. The individual can reflect inwardly without seeing the walls moving.

She and her husband happen to be carrying this out work and silently training other subterranean guides for 3 decades.

In the past, the 2 leading lights behind the psychedelic psychiatric therapy movement and also the popularization of MDMA were chemist Sasha Shulgin and Jungian analyst Leo Zeff, each of whom studied at UC Berkeley. Shulgin, who earned his PhD in biochemistry in 1954, starting with inspire the rediscovery of MDMA in 4 decades ago and early 1980s. Shulgin met Zeff, who died in 1988 at age 75, in the Caffe Mediterraneum on Telegraph Avenue in 1964. Once they met, Zeff, who briefly studied psychology at Cal, had been leading LSD therapy sessions. Shulgin was busy synthesizing an amazing variety of new psychoactive compounds inside a funky laboratory hidden within the Orinda hillsides.

Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon / Andy Freeberg

Sasha Shulgins wife Ann, who gave Ayelet the concept to consider ecstasy together with her husband throughout a guest appearance at Waldmans drug policy reform class at Berkeley Law, lead therapy sessions with couples taking MDMA. She told Waldman they could accomplish more in one six-hour ecstasy session compared to six many years of traditional therapy.

MDMA creates a different experience from LSD or any other drugs regarded as hallucinogens, for example mescaline and psilocybin, the ingredients in peyote and magic mushrooms. When drawn in bigger doses, LSD is really a effective mind-altering substance that may blast users into uncharted, sometimes frightening, psychic territory.

MDMA includes a softer effect. Many people refer to it as an empathogen due to its capability to produce feelings of empathy and empathy. People around the drug will not possess the intense visual distortions you can experience on LSD. They might feel less stoned, yet transformed a minimum of for any couple of hrs.

Dr. George Greer, a Boise State Broncos mental health specialist who treated patients with MDMA prior to the 1985 ban, stated the compound puts couples within an altered condition, however they have their full intellectual ability for communication.

MDMA prevents the emotional fear reaction to a perceived threat, Greer explained. Married people dont enter into their normal knee-jerk reactions. Fear doesn’t push your brain right into a defensive postureDuring sessions they learn how to communicate in additional honest, direct ways. They learn to employ that skill later with no drug.

Greer has become the medical director from the Heffter Research Institute, that has backed double-blind placebo trials at Johns Hopkins and New You are able to College using psilocybin-aided therapy to deal with the anxiety and depression that frequently comes with a existence-threatening diagnosis.

Within an interview with CALIFORNIA Magazine, he informed not to couples trying ecstasy by themselves, due to the fact its illegal and users cant be sure they’re really acquiring pure MDMA.

Waldman recommends that couples have an MDMA test package and evaluate any illicit substance acquired from the source it normally won’t completely trust. But with pure MDMA, Greer notes, a small risk to individuals with cardiac issues since the drug boosts the heartbeat.

MDMA mainly works via a complex and just partly understood interaction of three mood-controlling brain chemicals: serotonin, dopamine, andnorepinephrine

Nevertheless, Greer acknowledges that huge numbers of people took MDMA coupled with good encounters.

Within the brain, MDMA mainly works via a complex and just partly understood interaction of three mood-controlling brain chemicals: serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. That (cheap the MA means crystal meth) explains why users feel excitement and elevated energy in addition to elevated sensitivity to light and seem.MDMA also appears to modify the flow of oxytocin, a hormone associated with human mating and connecting.

Its an ideal storm of pharmacology, developing a great set-up for psychiatric therapy, stated Dr. Julia Holland, a brand new You are able to City mental health specialist and author and editor from the book Ecstasy: The Complete Guide. You need to talk and fasten. You are feeling more having faith in and also have this sense that is nice.

David Presti, that has been teaching neurobiology, psychology and cognitive science at UC Berkeley since 1991, believes the bond between brain chemistry, empathy and empathy among MDMA users continues to be highly over-construed.

Brain and behavior tend to be more subtle and sophisticated than that, stated Presti, the writer of the new book entitled Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey. Within the mission to find simple explanations for that complexities of human behavior, there’s a wish to assign dominant regulatory roles to single molecular entities or specific brain regionsHow individuals variations result in differing behavior effects awaits further elucidation.

Based on the National Institute on Substance Abuse, some heavy MDMA users experience lengthy-lasting confusion, depression, and selective impairment of working memory. Many experienced recreational users report feeling lower a few days following a session, and advise against using the drug greater than a couple of times annually.

What everybody appears to agree with may be the more you’re doing so the more serious you are feeling, Holland explained. You will find really diminishing returns. She also noticed that people taking anti-depressants will most likely feel little effect from ecstasy as their daily medication blocks the serotonin receptors MDMA must achieve.

Advocates of medically supervised therapeutic use, who generally guide patients through one, two, or three sessions spaced during a period of several several weeks, report no serious side effects in countless documented sessions. Each session lasts 4 to 6 hrs and happens inside a space that appears a lot more like a family room than the usual medical office. Volunteers are lightly led through the set of trained therapists who encourage volunteers to put on eyeshades and pay attention to evocative music to accentuate the drugs introspective effects.

Rob Metzner, an experienced psychedelic investigator, who resides in Sonoma County, stated MDMA doesn’t have exactly the same mental risks as LSD. You cannot possess a bad trip, he stated.

Like Greer, Metzner used MDMA like a therapeutic tool for couples and people within the 1980s. He collected accounts of individuals sessions inside a book entitled Through the Gateway of the Heart. In a single of individuals tales, a 37-year-old businessman stated the drug gave him an abrupt openness to giving and receiving unconditional love and adoration. This patient stated several MDMA sessions saved his relationship together with his partner. The accrued grievances of the stormy five-year relationship paled into insignificance he stated.

Like a counselor, Metzner also favored the approach of supervising separate sessions with every partner, especially for brand spanking new explorers. Then your couple would take ecstasy not being watched. They may soon give up of therapy, he stated. Theyd say, We do not need you (the counselor) any longer. Now we understand how to discuss our difficulties.

Surveys of illicit drug abuse demonstrate that ecstasy (or at best pills around the underground community that tell you they are MDMA) remains a well known recreational high. So it is not difficult to find couples utilizing it for all sorts of reasons. One pair, aging seniors, sitting lower beside me one evening recently within their home in San Franciscos Noe Valley neighborhood. We sipped teas and spoken about how exactly the drug helps them with the pleasure and discomfort of 30 years of married existence.

MDMA was pivotal for all of us, stated the husband. It helped us survive some very hard occasions, just getting just a little oasis of enjoyment and pleasure.

Just finding yourself in that expansive, loving place, added the wife, trying and touching her partners hands. It really deepened our relationship.

They yet others observe that MDMA is much more of the love drug than the usual sex drug.

This couple also occur to act as psychotherapists. And both dream during the day once they could possibly legally use MDMA to assist their sufferers discuss difficult issues and discover possible ways to know their spouses, parents, children, and themselves.

That dream might be become a reality between the 2020s. Or it might not.

The majority of the numerous studies with MDMA are backed through the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a personal nonprofit research and lobbying group located in Santa Cruz. Its principal investigator, Dr. Michael Mithoefer, a Sc psychotherapist, is performing a brand new MDMA therapy study of couples by which one spouse continues to be identified as having Post traumatic stress disorder.

Ten couples are given MDMA-aided therapy, such as the person in the pair who doesn’t have a clinical diagnosis but is nonetheless experiencing problems connected using the psychosocial conditions of the partners condition.

Mithoefer stated the very first couplea man with Post traumatic stress disorder from child sexual abuse, and the wifehas completed joint therapy, and subsequently three couples is going to be treated in Feb and March. The month-lengthy treatment plan includes two MDMA sessions and utilizes a couples talk therapy technique produced by Dr. Candice Monson, a clinical psychiatrist and Post traumatic stress disorder expert at Ryerson College in Toronto, who’s dealing with Mithoefer.

Post traumatic stress disorder affects peoples relationships a lot that a great way to address it is inside the relationship, stated Mithoefer.

A lot of Mithoefers work nowadays involves training generation x of psychedelic therapists in separate programs operated by MAPS and also the California Institute of Integral Studies in Bay Area. A few of these therapists is going to be focusing on the ultimate phase of numerous studies that MAPS and also the Heffter Research Institute researchers are performing within the next couple of years with MDMA and psilocybin.

Mithoefer stated his office continues to be flooded with calls and emails from individuals and couples wishing to get involved with his Post traumatic stress disorder programs. Most who would like MDMA-aided therapy should be switched away. Its sad that we’re so limited with what give us a call now, he stated. But hopefully which will change.

Don Lattin may be the author of 5 books, including The Harvard Psychedelic Cluband also the forthcoming Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Sacraments and the New Psychotherapy, which is printed in April. This story was initially printed californiamag.org

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