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I write from the heart, full of love and grit. Here I write about my life and passions: grief, parenting and neurodiversity
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Cynthia Coupe
Sep 26, 20245 min read
Enby and Me
I had covid the week before my 50th birthday, which means I got to say goodbye to my 40’s quarantined in our spare room/office as my...
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Cynthia Coupe
Aug 17, 20244 min read
Reclamation: Or, life at the cusp of 50
It has certainly been more than a minute since I posted a blog. More than a minute since I have felt like writing. And just about a...
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Cynthia Coupe
Mar 10, 20233 min read
Cynthia 2.0
I’ve been dark for a while, like nearly two months…last time I wrote it was Frank’s birthday, just a year after he passed. I made it...
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Cynthia Coupe
Jan 13, 20235 min read
Mission Control
I have a pen pal. He saw one of my presentations last year, and we’ve kept in touch. Our random email connection is like a light in the...
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Cynthia Coupe
Jan 6, 20234 min read
Ground Zero
I was driving home the other day and this song came on the radio “All of Me“ by John Legend. I started bawling. I don’t know if I...
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Cynthia Coupe
Dec 30, 20227 min read
2022: Year of Yes
In my last post I said I wasn’t going to even try to recap this year…and that was true, for that post…but this one… I go all out. Once...
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Cynthia Coupe
Dec 24, 20226 min read
All the Things
My goodness, there are so many things. So. Very. Many. How does one deconstruct this year, in any way that could accurately express it?...
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Cynthia Coupe
Dec 10, 20227 min read
My COVID Relaunch Party
You know how life is…how it sets you up for exactly what you need, for exactly what you get to look at, and it’ll keep doing this for you...
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Cynthia Coupe
Dec 3, 20225 min read
Laid Bare
I think it’s only fair to keep taking you, dear readers, along for the ride I started when I began this blog. Currently, it’s about my...
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Cynthia Coupe
Nov 26, 20226 min read
RUIN or… R-U IN?
There is so much I’ve wanted to write about…my incredible trip to Oaxaca, the delightful Thanksgiving I just had…yet I haven't written...
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Cynthia Coupe
Nov 4, 20225 min read
Death and rebirth
There is life after death, I am proof of that. There is love after loss, I am proof of that too. There is hope after despair, joy after...
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Cynthia Coupe
Oct 28, 20226 min read
Love is in the Air
I wrote this post in a flurry the other week, all ready to put it out there proud as anything and then I got stuck, sidelined and waylaid...
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Cynthia Coupe
Oct 14, 20227 min read
Raised by Wolves
Truth be told, I wasn't really prepared for this weeks blog, so I read over some old writing of mine and found this. I think it's...
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Cynthia Coupe
Oct 7, 20227 min read
9 Months Out and Fall…
We just entered autumn, the equinox only a week or so behind us. October 7th marks 9 months since Frank died. It’s a Friday, Frank died...
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Cynthia Coupe
Oct 1, 20228 min read
Freaks and Dragons or Stimming 101
Freaks and Dragons…I mean…let’s tell it like it is. Certainly an autistic person in an intense stim might look like a freak, or be...
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Cynthia Coupe
Sep 24, 20225 min read
Diversity and Exclusion
Working in the Diversity and Inclusion space to bring Neurodiversity out of the dark and into the light.
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Cynthia Coupe
Sep 16, 20228 min read
The 5 Neurodivergent Love Languages
here are 5 common ways neurodivergents show their love languages...I guarantee it's not just an internet buzz thing, it's real
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Cynthia Coupe
Sep 9, 20225 min read
8 Months Out...
8 months since Frank passed, and where am I? Extreme self-care, that's where...and it's working.
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Cynthia Coupe
Sep 2, 20226 min read
Neurotic ND Part 2: Masking
**Little check-in here: I just want to be CLEAR and let you all know that I do NOT think neurodivergency is neurotic...I am titling...
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Cynthia Coupe
Aug 26, 20225 min read
Neurotic Neurodivergency Part 1
There’s something here…something I need to describe to you all, a picture of some inner workings that might help to answer the question...
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