Understanding Interest-Based Nervous System (Part 1)
Reconceptualizing curiosity as a practice of epistemic connection and the curious subject as essentially embedded in relations prompts a deepening analysis of curiosity not only in philosophy but also in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
A lot of what’s been framed as “boundaries” in popular therapy speak is really about comfort, not capacity. Control, not care.
And when mental illness, neurodivergence, or trauma are in the room, those “boundaries” can become punishment dressed up as protection.
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instagram.comWhilst if you are monotropic and autistically developing, such as I am, you will be good at either thinking, or feeling, or noticing, but in serial fashion, one at a time. I can multi-task, but only if I have available attention, am interested and have energy resources within my interest tunnel. This suggests that attention and interest are partner
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