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Jennifer Lawson (born December 29, 1973) is an American journalist, author and blogger.

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So many of us feel like we're misfits until we finally find our tribe - the other people who are are strange in the same way - and suddenly everything clicks.

Clicks, People, Tribe, Tribes, Way

I have trouble getting approvals from my heath insurance company for basic antidepressants. And I have the best plan my agency has. I can't get high off this stuff! I'm not going to sell it! Getting my medication is critical. It's me saying, "I just want to live. " And their response seems to be, "We agree that it's a matter of life and death; that's why we're declining it. " Every time I get a cold, I have Tylenol with codeine coming out the wazoo. But the medication I need to live? Nah.

Agency, Cold, Life, Life And Death, Trouble, Want

Dissension is healthy, even when it gets loud.

Dissension, Healthy, Loud

I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.

Awesome, Lonely, Party, Successful, Thousands, Wil

Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.

Absurdity Of Life, Imperfect, Joy, Running, Utter

There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.

Anxiety, Awful, Good, Involved, Thinking, Unique

Knock-knock, motherfucker.

Motherfucker

In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

Draining, Energy, Exhausting, Normal, Xanax

When I was in junior high I read a lot of Danielle Steele. So I always assumed that the day I got engaged I'd be naked, covered in rose petals, and sleeping with the brother of the man who'd kidnapped me.

Brother, Covered, Day, Engaged, Men, Sleep

I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.

Different, Embarrassing, Happened, Important, Make, Parts

A house should look lived in, and I consider it clean as long as I don't stick to it and it doesn't give me cholera.

Clean, Give, Giving, House, Long

I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains

Curtains, Housewives, Sometimes, Terrible, Wizard, Wizards

One of the most important things I learned is forging a rapport with someone at your insurance company. Know their names. You'll eventually get someone who will tell you, "This is how you do an appeal. This is what you need to say in your letter. " You can also always go to the ER to get whatever you need to tide you over for a few days.

Important, Insurance, Names, Needs, Tell, Things

Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind?

Mind, Homesick, Anymore, Someplace

When you're really crazy you don't question it. Being aware of my behaviors stops them. Sure, a lot of people pick their cuticles, but how many people cut big parts of their skin off? It's unfair because I have been judged.

Crazy, Cut, Cuticles, Cutting, Judged, People

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

Already, Anxiety Disorder, People, Quite, Real, Speaks Out

Meanwhile, I was doodling pictures of vampiric cougars.

Cougars, Doodling, Meanwhile, Pictures

It’s amazing how much you’re missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It’s like breathing again after being underwater for far too long.

Breathing, Long, Missing, Side, State, Underwater

That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, just to visit it, and touch it, and to convince myself that yes, it had been real.

Back, Night, Real, Stars, Visit

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

Book, Complicated, Simple, Solitary, Writing

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