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They don't know it, but this article is also about autism.

dmnews.com/j-a-p-psychologists…

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Psychologists say people who need to be alone after socializing aren't recharging from exhaustion.

The quiet after socializing isn't recovery from depletion — it's your brain running a complex sorting algorithm on every micro-expression, tonal shift, and unspoken tension you absorbed, and some of us simply have more data to process.
Bernadette Donovan (Direct Message News)
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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)
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oh good find. Framing can be so powerful, and when it is the deciding factor in whether we see a phenomenon as a natural process or not, a strength vs weakness, or inevitable vs malleable, it can be a big deal. I try to be an empiricist about human behavior and delay assigning value because so often the value judgment obscures deeper understanding and potentially ways to adjust -- things I can actually affect. I have limited success but what successes I've had have been meaningful.
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