I’ve been writing everyday more or less for about five years straight. More or less. This past year I missed a few days because I’ve probably reached some level of burnout. I just found that on a couple of occasions I couldn’t let my thoughts free flowout Some of my posts this year were rapid one-stream-of-consciosness diatribes. Others were more carefully thought through.
At this point of the year, I like to look back and reflect on what I wrote. By doing so it gives me insight into myself and what I went through that year. I also like to see what resonated with the audience and what state of mind were others in.
For the 5th time in a row, my number one post was not one I wrote in the current year. It is one that I wrote back in 2015: Puerto Rican by Way of Superstitions and Rituals: Avoiding the “Mal de Ojo”. I had many similar oldies but goodies. Another such oldie, was I dodged the bullet, but I shot the gun. If I had to write that post again, it would most certainly apply to this year as well as when I originally wrote it in 2016. Further, my old post The Empty Fortune Cookie seem to still cause some people to reflect. And, my post on the Psychology of Replying to All still gets to people. We seem to all still hate that CC line in emails. In that vein, another top post was Is being done an emotion?
As for this year, there was most decidedly a theme that emerged in terms of most read, etc. The posts which reflected and commented on mental health issues of this past year seemed to resonate. For instance my post on Harry and Meghan was my top post written this year and it centered around quitying for one’s mental health needs. Little did I know this would become a universal theme for the year and hit many pop culture and media top ten lists as a theme in of itself. Then there was a post the fact that anything that costs you your mental health is too expensive. And, also a post on the Power of Indifference.
I think you get it. We all felt burned out, anxious, fatigued, and overwhelmed. We also realized that in some situations quitting was a actually the right move. I was capturing, without knowing it at the time, what would come to be labled the resignation economy. What an interesting time in which to be living.
Categories: Culture, current events, mental health, Psychology, society, writing
psychologistmimi 
Wishing you a happy New Year, despite everything that’s going on, dear Mimi.💖
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Thank you so much! Wishing you and yours a most wonderful new years. Cheers
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I will have to read your old posts soon since i’m a new follower! 🙂
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Aww. Thanks. Hope you have a most fabulous new years
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Happy New Year Mimi, and hello. I’ve enjoyed your blog without commenting for a while now and connecting more with other bloggers is on my resolution list for 2022. Thank you for all the great posts and I look forward to more.
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Happy new year Phil! Thanks for reaching out. Wishing you the best for the coming new year!
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SMiLes Born on the Autism
And Bi-Polar Spectrum Beginning Life
Without the Ability to Put Words Together
For Speaking
Then
Until
Age 4
Mental Health
Has Been A Life Long
THeME And Challenge for me…
i Have 5 Major Online Pen Names
Starting With Aghogday, KaTiE MiA Aghogday,
KATiE MiA, Kate Mia, And KATiE MiA Frederick
While It’s true my Wife’s First and Middle Name is
Katrina, Katie, or Kat for Short And Yes Mia For Middle Name
KATiE MiA Is Also An Acronym for ‘Kind Autistics Taking in Everything
Mindful in Awareness’ Yet of Course i’m Not the Kind of Shallow Aloof
Cold Mechanical Cognition Restricted Autistic Person With Barely Functioning
Mirror Neurons
And A Deficit
of Feeling
Empathy for
Others Unlike me Yes,
Nope, i Am Supercharged
In all that is Empathy and
Sensory Abilities And Yes
With A Propensity to Go into Computer
Mind Mode in Systemizing Science Ways
And Lose That Warm Part of Humanity that
Was More of my Story at Life at 3 Before Speaking
Sentences of Words Put Together at Four Years Old
So Yep i Am Basically A Sensitive Snow Flake Born Child
Mothered to Love Alive this Way Full of Anxiety True As Well too…
As Humans Have Created A More Stimulating World than i Was First
Able to Adapt Myself to in Natural Animal Homeostasis For 53 Entire Years
Finally With A Practice of Autotelic Flow in Free Dance And Song of Poetry
Voila Balance
is ‘Mind and Body Soul’
To Keep Inhaling Peace
Exhaling LoVE iN JoY oF LiGHT
Giving, Sharing, Caring, Healing Free For
All With Least Harm And of Course in a Twitter
World this Way it is Rare i really find a Place to Rest
my Head Still
Where i am not
Only Tolerated Yet
Fully Accepted for
Truly A Sensitive
Snow Flake i am
IN Rather A Large
Male Hairy Bear
or Wookiee Looking Body
And It’s True i Have Extreme Tactile
Sensitivity to Almost Any Human Made
Materials A Naked World Suits me Just Fine
Yet True this is An Over Clothed World Where
Humans Have Become More Their Tools Than
Humanity Moving, Connecting, Co-Creating Naturally
Surviving And
Thriving This
Way to Actually
Enjoy This State of
Moving Connecting
Co-Creating Loving Humanity Being
Yes Inhaling Peace Exhaling Love For All…
So Okay, Basically i Came into This World as
A Canary in A Coal Mind Whatever Brought me
Down First Would Ultimately Bring The Other Non-Canary
Human Beings Down Further too So Yes in Achieving Recovery
For A Really Severe case of What Science Actually Researches
Now as A Real Human Condition Called Autism Burnout or Autistic
Burnout Resulting in a Synergy of Life Threat in 19 Medical Disorders
For 66 Months Shut-in in my Bedroom From Wake to Sleep With Type
Two Trigeminal Neuralgia the Worst Assessed Human Pain and Numb
For me without even a memory of if i ever felt the feeling of a Smile before
No Drug Would Touch
Yes i Wanted to Help
Other Folks avoid
The Real HeLL ON EartH
i Went through as A Canary
In a Coal Mine That Others in History
Have Termed Variously as Neurasthenia,
Nervous Break Downs, And General Adaptation
Syndrome As Well Among Other General Metaphors
Too of Basically Having A Frigging Dead Battery to Live
For What i Understand is the Life Juice of Properly Regulating
Emotions And Integrating Senses Through What An Autotelic
Flow of Meditating and Contemplating Free Dance And Free
Song of Poetry Brings to me So i not Only Talk about it like
A Science Project
i Do it For Real
in Real Time Now
As A Real Anthropology
Participant Observer in
Not Only A Science Research
Paper Yet actually a Longest EPiC
Long Form Poetry ‘Bible’ Project for
100 Months and 10,000,000 Plus Words Now
For Free For Free For Free As i Really Don’t Wanna
Touch any of that Human Made Disgusting Green Money
Stuff Anymore in my Life as my Wife Doesn’t Mind Touching
it or Keeping it In Her Chubby Little Wallet Hehe True it Wasn’t
Easy Standing By Her
Man in Hell Either
Yet at Least
She Got A
Chubby Wallet
To Do it as All My
Life i’ve Sensed A Really
Horrible Hurricane Coming
For me Before Enjoying the Rainbow
Stars After Tar Birded HeLL ONE EartH
It’s True i used to Have Prophetic Nightmares
That Were An Omen When i Was a Child for
My Ending and Starting Destination of Life Again…
So Anyway Back to Join You In A Review of 2021
Now that i Have the Background Information Before
That Taken Care of
Interestingly
Now if one Puts
my Pen Name ‘Aghogday’
into the Search Engine One
Returns Research Linked to
A Small Piece i Wrote About ‘Autism
Burnout’ in 2013 When i First Started
Blogging that Spring A Perennial Top
BlogSpot Platform Viewed Hit With Tens
of Thousands of Views Now Yet it’s true
i’ve Spread A Song And Dance of my Soul
In Almost Innumerable Ways Around Online Since
Thanks Giving Day of 2010 And Even Locally Where
i am Literally as Recognizable As the Local Weather
Man Everywhere i go
Except
No one
Asks me About
The Weather They
Just Smile They Just Smile
or the Children Point at me to
Their Parents And Exclaim Gleefully
‘There He is the Dancing Man!’ True it’s
Like Pokemon Never Really Went Away for
the Full 100 Months of 15,942 Miles of Public Dance
Yes Perseverance And Adherence to Restricted Repetitive
Special Interests is Really Rather A Gift too in Laser Focus
of Painting Sistine Chapels and the Such oF Never Ever Giving
UP Even if there are some disagreements about Making God and
the Others Naked as such With All Body Parts Proudly Displayed Freely
Hmm..
Just Hmm..
Anyway Artful
Photography a
Special Interest too
For Way Over a Hundred
Thousand Photos Online
Probably About 150 Thousand
Total And What’s Really Cool is i Can
Link the Oldest Pen Name Avatar “Aghogday”
in A Google Search With Just About Any Descriptive
Phrase Like a Card Catalog for Most All the Photos and
Words i Have Done Ever Since 2010 Thanks Giving Now
True Use the
Tool Master it
And Do Not Let
the Tool Use Us
And Become Terminator
Machines Instead of Naked
Enough Still Whole Complete Humanity Now True
What’s Perhaps Even Cooler is on the ‘Wrong Planet’
The Website for the so-called ‘Unwanted Toys of Humanity’
Where Systemizing Restricted Minds Tend to Wanna Rule the
Roost As We Find that With Folks Who Literally Interpret Poetry
In Old Bibles too Trying to Take Us Back to Older Testament Theocracy
Days true too in the United States of ‘Trump’ After i Regained My Right
Hemisphere Processes More of Social Empathic Artistic Real Emotional
Spiritual Interpretive Intelligences Again My Depth oF A STory Wasn’t really
Welcome There At First
When i Rose Like a
Phoenix Out off the
Old ashes of my
Very Restricted
Left Brain
Systemizing
Science Material
Reductionist Way
of Processing the World
in Very Small Picture Way
to A View the Size of Full Humanity
Once Again Yes Naked Enough Whole
Complete So Several Times They Kicked me
off the Wrong Planet Yet Like A Yoyo That Always
Returns or Perhaps a Boomerang Aged Dude i Always
Came Back Just Like A 2.0 Version Of A Terminator Trying
to Save Humans From The Same Old Dam Older Testament Machine age
Honestly They Just Couldn’t Understand then so i Kept Giving Them Mulligans
And allowed them to Get Even More Than Three Strikes and Unlimited Gutterballs too
So anyway my 8th New Testament Named “Depth of the Story” Still In Quotes a First
Google Search in a Solo Thread By me for 16 Months Now and Close to 1.3 MiLLioN Words
Is allowed on the ‘Wrong Planet’ And Viewed More than 78 Thousand Views Now Ever Since
August 19, 2020 The Day After i Celebrated 8 Years and 8.4 MiLLioN Words of “Song of mY
SoUL” Longest EPiC Long Form Poem Bible Now Again at 10,000,000 Plus Words in 100
Months And True i Am Currently Finishing the 11th of 11 Greater Than King James Sized
Sub-Chapter EPiC Long Form Bible Poems With “Grand Cross Bible 2021” As this
is the 6th Greater Than Old King James Size Effort Since Grand Cross Bible 2016
Completed in the 7 Month Period Between Memorial Day Weekend Through
Christmas And New Year’s Eve Might Run A Few Days Behind to Finish
it this Year Yet i am getting Mighty Close to Another 58 Thousand
Word Bi-Weekly Effort Just Since i Published the Celebration of
“SonG oF mY SoUL 10 MiLLioN WordS Old” on Christmas
Eve Just 6 Days Ago And Over 40 Thousand Words
Ago In this Effort Now Still Writing Now It’s true
i Used to Do A Review of Each Year too
By Blog Post Title and New Year’s
Resolution for #Play2022 Yet
There are Just too Many
Other Celebrations
To Fit that
Ending Now
So Thanks For
The Free Rental
Space From New York, New York
Dear Psychologistmimi Yes Thanks
For Tolerating the Neurodivergence
Of me For the Last Several Years on
Every Single Blog Post You Ever Do
As An Indian Dancer Savvy Raj
Allows From Across the Ocean
in the Same Way and
Scores of other
Folks Around the
Globe Yet Not Every
Single Day Like You two
In Fact Savvy Hasn’t Missed A Day
in Close to Two Years Now that i Have
Visited Her Yet i don’t think She’s Been
Through What You Have in the Health Care
Field As an Executive in the Last Two Years for Sure…
Mental Health And Well Being Should Always Be the
Number One Focus of Everyone on this Planet Earth
For With Naked Enough Whole Complete Comes the
Empathy And Compassion to Love All of Nature With Least Harm
Yes, This Work is Vital For All of Us to Do to Save Ourselves As Both
Anchors and Sails Yes in Both Real Conservative And Brave Liberal Ways
For Fair Winds and Following Seas And Yes Indeed Safe Harbors For All For Real
i Don’t Have to Tell You Happy New Year Hehe Just Yet As i Know Where to Find
You Both
on New Year’s
Eve and New Year’s
Day As You Bounce
Back Like a Yoyo Everyday True too…
As You Always Come Back Us Autistic (like me)
Folks Take Great Comfort in Folks Like You True too..
God Knows, Feels, Senses, i Do Love An Everyday Routine
Now of Change
in Balance
Such A Gif A Present of NoW iNDeed…
And Obviously You Are From Neurotypical
too A Requirement for Every Rental Space
on the Globe
i Visit
And Am
Allowed
to
Consistently Return…
Sadly While Reading
What i Wrote on the
Wrong Planet About
Clean Up Crews taking
Care of the Remains of Elders
in Skyscraper Apartments in Japan
Who Had Lost All their Human
Social Contacts in Life Where
No one checked on them
To See if they Were
Still Breathing
When They Died
At that Very Moment
Walking Around the
Block My Sister Related
That A Nice Man We Knew for
Years Working at the Naval Installation
Where We Worked Was Delivered Christmas
Food By His Previous Co-Workers After Retirement
A Day Before Christmas They Noticed Mail
Piled All Over His Front Porch
And A Horrible Odor
Coming From
Inside the
Closed Door
Home True
He Died Alone
Home a Month Before
And Nobody Even Noticed
He Came Missing
Alive For that
Long and
Even With the
Horrible Odor the
Mail Person didn’t
Even Call Someone
To Check to See what
Might Have Happened to
Him And Indeed This
is A Symptom For All
The Problems Humanity
Currently Has We
No Longer Move
Connect Co-Create
Together Needing
Each Other Alive
Enough
Working in Front of
A Screen in 5 Job
Changes For
the Federal
Government
In 5 Years then
To Keep the Golden
Handcuffs of Retirement
For me to Still Come is
What Brought me Down
In a Mechanical Cognition
Restricted Way of Life
in Information Technology,
Financial Management ,
Administration,
And Supervision
of So Many Programs
Then in 5 Years Yet
It’s True i Even
Lost Contact
With my
Wife in my
Own Home
for Those 5 Years
On-Call from Work
Around the Clock
And When i Left
i Had no Idea Who
i Even Was Well
Now i Know Now
i Feel Now i Sense
i Human And Enough…
Hmm.. At A Penny a
Word for my Thoughts
i Owe You Now Twenty-One
Dollars And Fifty-Cents Just
For Today’s Rental Space Now hehe…
Yet i’m Still Breathing, Moving Now,
Connecting and Co-Creating Human
As Even An Avatar online And Really Real Now True too..:)
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Oops, i Meant *Far from Neurotypical
Not Just From Neurotypical..:)
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