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Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Lecture Featuring Dr. Temple Grandin

By Temple Grandin — 2018

Grandin—inventor, speaker, author and perhaps the autism community’s best-known advocate—encouraged her audience at Vanderbilt University on Thursday to embrace the diagnosis for what it can do: add diverse thinkers to a workforce that not only can accommodate them, but desperately needs them. See more...

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How People With Autism Forge Friendships

Most autistic people want to and can make friends, though their relationships often have a distinctive air.

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Lydia Denworth
2020
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Experiences with Cancer, Captured in Works of Art

The program Brushes with Cancer pairs patients with artists whose works make visible a disease that can be invisible and isolating.

Article
Susan Gubar
2020
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Sonia Sanchez Speaks Truth to Power, Poetically [Interview]

A formalist with wide poetic range, Sanchez’s vast body of work includes poems that delve into themes that resonate with those who’ve known isolation’s dance.

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Penny Dickerson
2014
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Spiritual Growth and Loneliness

I’ve recently had conversation about loneliness and how it relates to spiritual growth. All our lives we are conditioned to seek external validation to give us our sense of self-worth.

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Kerry Davey
2017
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Letters to a Young Poet

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of advice itself.

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Charlie Louth (translator)
2014
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