Tag: mental-health

  • Aphantasia, Dyslexia, and ADHD: How I Made a Career in a Visual Industry Without a Functioning Mind’s Eye

    There I was on 87, Ubering one of my kids to a travel baseball tournament in New Jersey — kid in the back with headphones on, or asleep, which amounts to the same thing. Half-listening to NPR because it’s either that or the silence where my own thoughts live. And a Radiolab episode came on…

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  • In Defense of Smart People (And Against Shopping Cart Abandoners)

    I’m not the smartest person. Not even close. But I’m also not the dumbest person. I think. Maybe. The jury’s still out, and frankly, I’m not smart enough to serve on that jury. I do, however, really like smart people. I like people who understand quantum physics even though there’s absolutely no way they could…

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  • Screen Time

    Screen Time Doesn’t Work Because Apple Doesn’t Want It To

    Peer pressure around getting phones for kids, tweens, and teens is intense. If your kid already struggles to fit in, not having a device makes them feel worse. The cruel irony: giving them a device can isolate them further, just in a new direction. There’s no good answer. Schools should ban devices outright, but that’s…

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