416 - Neurodiversity and the Benefits and Challenges of Non-Monogamy (with author Alyssa Gonzalez)
Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships
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The Comfort of Societal Heuristics
In an environment where you're already doing things that heuristics don't apply to and that involve a lot of emotions, it is especially important and helpful for a person to try to get a handle on those. For neurodivergent people societal heuristics can be comforting. It's this large series of definitions where if the world is very fuzzy and confusing in your mind, having nice, tidy definitions to lean on can be very comforting. And part of the point of not being monogamous is that you're going to deconstruct all of this and rebuild something new for yourself.
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