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Feb 10Liked by Katherine May

Thank you especially for that Eminem article. Fascinating to see visually. It reminds me in a way of Emily Dickinson's handwritten edited drafts—which are fascinating to me with her visual code. It's interesting that both poets are so visual (and Eminem has said he's autistic, as Dickinson is speculated to be, although retrospective diagnosis is flawed in process, concept, and ethics, I realize).

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It’a complicated isn’t it? I think we can see autistic traits so clearly across history and yet it does seem wrong to impose that label ahistorically. But at the same time, a lot of people still seem to think we sprung out of nowhere, and I’m desperate to prove otherwise. Dickinson seems like such a clear example!

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I love that point about not springing out of nowhere! And she really does.

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Feb 10Liked by Katherine May

Thank you. You make very day better!

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Isn’t Substack such a wonderland?!? Thank you for sharing such great reads—inspiring stuff!

I’ll share this link from my own Five Things round up : It’s Not Over Until the Bride’s Father Sings was such a wonderful, heartwarming read!

https://open.substack.com/pub/memoirland/p/its-not-over-until-the-brides-father?r=3ddeo&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

(I’m still learning Substack, sorry about the giant link lol)

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This looks great, thanks!

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