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Laura McKowen, Awais Aftab, and Jessica Valenti posted new notes

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I’m 12 years sober today. The typical question is, Is this bad enough for me to have to change? The question we should be asking is, Is this good enough for me to stay the same? And the real question underneath it all is, Am I free?” What a gift.
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I am doing a series of articles (“Therapeutic Window”) for the Science desk at The New York Times. The first article is about whether ADHD is better understood as a disorder of “attention” or something else: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/science/adhd-attention-motivation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E1E.77WO.6H0OvG-FxLDY&smid=url-share
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Amanda Montei liked
I know we’re all thinking about what happened at Cornell. But I also can’t stop thinking about Emma Sulkowicz and all the other young women forced to carry that weight. Read my column at the newsletter 💜 https://jessica.substack.com/p/carrying-that-weightagain
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