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Yes yes 👏🏻 I laughed. A lot.

Thank you Orli 🤓

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Super! Welcome to the unfinished club, or the club of the unfinished, or maybe it was a heart or a diamond.

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This makes me feel so much better about not being able to write (and post) anything yet! Thanks ever so! Now, I just have to wrangle MY brain. ;-)

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And then there's all that swimming in the afternoon that needs to be done.

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The Significant Other is also on Substack?! That was the earthquake I felt a week or so ago. Oh dear Goddess. Must subscribe (and did).

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Finally! Someone I can relate to. 😂

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Just in case you haven’t, read Playing Big by Tara Mohr. And No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz. Brains can be crazy sometimes

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Ha. Now you have two lunatics in your inbox. Thanks for supporting the neuroses.

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Hi there. REALLY missing Woodstock.

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Thanks. I'll check them out. Sometimes crazy would be a nice break from daily crazy.

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I have a sneaking suspicion Brainy may moonlight in my own skull when you’re not using it 🫠

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Hope she's nicer to you than she is to me.

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Why was your television show about an Indian rather than a Jew?

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You'd have to ask NBC but I'm guessing it must be all of those hundreds of other shows about Jewish Middle Eastern women. We're everywhere.

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I am working on my first newsletter, having signed up at the beginning of the year. Pretty much all of the brain scolding in your drawings resonate, Orli -- except maybe the one about drawings. Like I'm going to post drawings, pff.

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Ha. Apparently the first is the hardest. Good luck.

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Welcome to Substack, Orli! Looking forward to reading your missives.

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Thanks, Andrei. Bring Advil.

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OMG, you've found the fun! Stop the overthinking (easier said than done, I know) and Just. Post. Something. Freewrite about all the overthinking options that have been hanging you up, or whatever else is on your mind. Include drawings. :-) No brilliance or "right" choices required. Can't wait. 🙏

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Trying. Thanks for the support.

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Sounds scarily familiar to me. I recently discovered that autism/ADHD is a big part of my extremely busy brain. Unfortunately self-knowledge doesn't make a scrap of difference to the reality of living with it.

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That can't be fun. Hope you find some relief.

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