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c2fcf8b
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He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
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expectations
jordan
lan
new-spring
overwhelmed
robert
wheel-of-time
wot
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Robert Jordan |
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2d7698c
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"I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming," he gushed to his friend Cornel Tengel. "But since then I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life. Everett Ruess"
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nomad
overwhelmed
vagabond
vagabond-for-beauty
wanderer
wilderness
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Jon Krakauer |
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f1afd0e
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[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someone might recognise or touch her. She could not make the simplest of decisions - which type of bread did she want, or what kind of salami? I tried to do the shopping as quickly as possible, but at the check-out she started to panic. She took out her wallet, knocked off her glasses, dropped the money on the floor, stuff was going all over the place.
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asperger-s
asperger-s-syndrome
aspergers
aspergers-syndrome
autism
check-out
decision
decisions
fear
glasses
jump
jumped
money
noise
overwhelmed
panic
people
quickly
recognise
sensory-stimulation
shopping
stuff
supermarket
touch
wallet
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Andrew Wilson |
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99636dd
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"Rosy lifted her arm, tried to say something, then pointed at the cafe, held her head, covered her mouth and--humiliation of humiliations--she began to cry. Right there in the street. "I'm so confused," she said but it came out as a great honking wail. "Come here, you silly girl," Phyllis said. The woman put her arms around Rosy, patted her back, and for the first time in forever, Rosy allowed herself to just cry. A young mother with twins in a pram passed them. The children's eyes tracked Rosy for a second before their faces crumpled and they started to cry too. "I'm sorry," Rosy said, and flapped her arms. "I'm sorry."
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emotion
humiliation
overwhelmed
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R.G. Manse |
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1128c24
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I'd spent the preceding twenty days swirling in a paralyzing vortex of loud sounds and bad smells, overwhelming stimuli, and confusing social norms, and I'd had just about all I could take.
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overwhelmed
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Tracey Garvis Graves |